Yesterday, many Malaysian go out and cast their votes on who they choose to represent their voice on the Malaysian Government. Majority of the population will decide the future of the country and the minority would just have to respect the majority’s decision. At least that is what they say.

I however, didn’t participated in this parliamentary election process.

I choose not to vote because I am against majoritarianism. Against the traditional political philosophy which asserts that a majority of the population is entitled to certain degree of primacy in society, and has the right to make decisions that affect the society.

Even-thought a democratic political structure is not a total majoritarianism, democracy is restricted by constitution and in a democratic political structure the majority would not exclude any minority from future participation in the democratic process, however I still consider democracy as some form of majoritarianism.

Such system would lead to the tyranny of the majority, where in a majority rule, the decisions made by a majority under that system would place the majority interests so for from the minority’s interests and could be comparable in cruelty to tyrannical.

I just think that majority of people can’t make good choices. The fact that majority of people uses Windows based PC rather then Macs, is enough proof that the majority’s choices are not wise choices.

Most of the population, the majority, are easily influenced. That is basically what all the political parties have been doing for this couple of month, influencing the people to vote for them. The future of a country is nothing but a popularity contest.

A more divided Malaysia

Anyway, this year around as the result comes in, we have a more divided majority as the ruling coalition in Malaysia suffered its worst election result in decades. They still win by a simple majority.

Although the ruling coalition, the National Front coalition still has the majority but this time around there will be a sizeable presence of the opposition in Parliament.

I don’t think it is a good idea for a ship to have two captains. The ship will either sink or wont go anywhere as both of their captains will spend most of the time arguing about the direction to navigate the ship rather then doing the actual navigating.

We will see during the first year or so that the opposition parties will give the National Front coalition sitting in parliament a hard time. Just like a bunch of school kids who hate each other’s guts, trying to get back at each other, fighting over the silliest thing.

I guess we will just have to wait and see as a new government is currently being formed as of this writing.