Public officials can’t let emotion trump reason
A police vehicle seen in the EMCO area near the Selayang wholesale market on Monday. Are cops aware that it is the district health office that determines whether an issue in such areas amounts to a medical or related crisis? – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, April 26, 2020.
I DEFINE “idiocrats” as public officials who use emotion, not reason, to determine what is good, right and true. Logic is what usually defines reason. The rule-of-law principle was reasserted after the 2018 general election, and directly linked to what Rakyat Malaysia voted for. The Pakatan Harapan government merely translated it.
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