Over dinner with family tonight, Malaysian politics was the topic of the day. And over, and over, as stories and rumours were traded, the conclusion was the same: politics is a dirty business and only the fittest (and the toughest) will survive.
It got me thinking: does politics have to be dirty? Do you have to be scheming, backstabbing, thick-skinned, and nasty to rise to the upper echelons of Malaysian (or anywhere else for that matter) government and power? Even if the answer is an affirmative, why does it have to be so? Why can't politics and power be clean for once?
