DAP's 'Animal Farm' dysfunctionalism

ORWELLIAN-LIKE DUPLICITY: Party accuses rivals of transgressions which they stupefyingly embrace and execute

IN George Orwell's inspiring masterpiece Animal Farm, farm and dairy animals revolt against their oppressive human master but the pigs, as rebel leaders, transmute in and out into the very nemesis they despised -- humans.

And within that flux, there lies Orwell's most daunting maxim, an illuminating and still prescient rubric: "All animals are equal", an initial rule that slyly negated to "but some animals are more equal than others".

This grouping of maxims is worth reprising because it mirrors eerily the DAP, throttling in its variable theme of political dysfunctionalism that consistently parodies its own existence by playing a charade of something it is not.

DAP leaders' derring-do is uncannily similar to many aspects of Orwell's 1945 satire that spins a telling yarn of animal leaders mouthing grand democratic and governance ideals, but whose stringent constitutions they contemptuously snub.

Against Animal Farm's backdrop, DAP's malarkey is apt hypocrisy, reinforced by a most recent howler at their party elections last week, the ultimate trampling of their Malaysian Malaysia, Middle Malaysia, multiracialism mantra.

In short, their Chinese-dominant delegates couldn't find it in their conscience to elect a single Malay leader into their 20-member central executive committee despite the pleading of enduring and high-profile Malay loyalists, parachutists and defectors.

Basically, DAP were caught with their pants down of inadvertently dissing their cherished mantra of racial and religious equality, but you wouldn't know it from their leaders' rant in trying to weasel their way out of this hubris of their own making.

In any case, it was classic Orwellian: they blame rival parties for the grievous failure of the Malay candidates and comically spun it as bowing to democratic meritocracy when in fact, the party has no ability to see beyond their own true skin.

As for the frustrated Malay, one can only admire their perseverance or chuckle at them for sticking adhesively to a party that doesn't seem to need them, a party that should proclaim themselves as Chinese-dominant aided by minority stakeholders focused on Chinese issues. At least that would be straightforwardly honest.

But being Orwellian in their attitudes, the party has no capacity to be up-front: there are too many hypocritical stances committed to maintain their Animal Farm disposition.

Here's how their "some animals are more equal than others" profligacy affects the party:

THEY denigrate other parties for nepotism and cronyism, but they just have to maintain a father-son dynasty at the top of the heap;

THEY frothily pledge freedom of the press in their diatribes against their rivals, but they banned newspapers and other media outfits from attending their events in Penang as revenge against critiques dumped on their bizarre management policies;

THEY twaddle on the idea of free speech but alas, only their top leaders can lambast and lampoon brazen hyperbole against rivals in and out of the party.

THEY insist that their system of sharing power within their 20-member committee is to avoid cliques and in-fighting but tell that to some conscientious leaders battling the father-son authoritarianism: not only are they soundly dismissed but their reputation is brutally flayed by pro-dynasty cyberbullies;

THEIR Orwellian instincts have the mendacity to insinuate rivals as "Hitlerian" and on a par as the Hosni Mubarak regime: the irony is lost to them for if the Federal Government was anything like Hitler or Mubarak, DAP would have been absolutely wiped out decades ago;

THEY have the troublesome habit of denouncing others of racism when their own bigotry traps them in a corner. For DAP, when other parties practise the politics of racial balancing, it is racism all the same, but the kettle's bottom is darker in the DAP's side;

THEY castigate the police to the point that confidence against law enforcement is rattled and they vilify the Election Commission's work as dubious so that voters will believe that polls manipulation can mask their poor electoral prospects marked by a term of inept administration.

At the outset, victimology and a persecution complex are the noisy tactics deployed by DAP to neutralise criticisms of their Orwellian instincts.

The DAP is doomed to spend the rest of its volatile life disguised by a questionable multiracial skin wrapped up by a twisted sense of meritocracy.

Orwell's Animal Farm is at its apotheosis in DAP, a political dysfunctionalism that somehow survived in a democratic melting pot that should not be allowed full maturation.

But that's the idea, to stop them at their tracks and confine their realm to the Penang government, even if that is still feasible, and for them to continue as useful dissenting members of parliament.

From all the defective profligacies they elicited, a Putrajaya controlled by the axis and schemed by DAP will be the finale of an epic national disaster.