Many Malaysians now realise that vision 2020 was just a slogan after seeing the failure of Abdullah's Islam Hadhari and Najib's 1 Malaysia. Dr M mooted that idea to regain the support of Malaysians after losing significant support from the electoral in the 1990's general election. I think many of us were duped into believing we would one day achieve developed nation status by just focus on export and building more modern structures. Hussein Hamid's article on the subject brought back memories of those days when Dr M unveiled the slogan. Instantly, 2020 became the magic number and lucky number for some to be placed on the car and advertising billboard. Malaysian were so naive back then and without alternative media, we believe in everything the main stream media sold to us. Looking at what we have achieved now, I think we are far from what Dr M has outlined in the vision 2020, far from it, we are now a nation I call "neither here nor there". At the cross road, the ruling BN government has no clue as to where we suppose to go. The world is very much different now compare to when Dr M first mooted the idea in the 90's. But they seem to be unable to change the old mind set when facing the new generation that are very different in the way they do things. Globalisation then was just a concept that we study in the book and in the seminar. Now, we are actually living in it whether you realise it or not.
Vision 2020…not bloody likely!
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