Moving forward in our reform agenda

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We have come to a critical juncture in our nationhood. Malaysians need to reflect. Key economic and social indicators reveal that our nation has been on the decline for years. Our leaders often invoke political rhetoric to explain this decline. Many, past and present, have employed racial and religious narratives. As a result, society sees hardships and successes through race and religion. Most of our prime ministers have also made claims about some mythic moment of greatness just after the British colonials left. They urge their administrations to recapture that monumental era. The truth is, since the 1970s, our nation has seen a steady rise in declinism. It is manifest in the people’s progressive dissatisfaction with economic and education policies. These sentiments are fuelled by our misunderstanding of the cause of Malay poverty. A pattern of racialising poverty has become t…