Lim Kit Siang

As Empires Decline – to Umno

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By Martin Jalleh

As empires decline, their leaders become increasingly incompetent - petulant, ignorant, gifted only with PR skills of posturing and spinning, and prone to the appointment of loyal idiots to important government positions. Comedy thrives; indeed writers are hardly needed to invent outrageous events... Their civilian leaderships become increasingly crazed, corrupt, and incompetent... Our era has become one of spectacular polarization, with folly multiplying on every hand. That is the way empires crumble: they are taken over by looter elites, who sooner or later collapse. --Ernest Callenbach (April 3, 1929 - April 16, 2012) American writer and author of the classic environmental novel Ecotopia. Dedicated to Umno as she celebrates her 66th Anniversary today.