NO matter how we spin the political wheel in the past 30 years, we always seem to end up with one predominantly multiracial coalition versus a predominantly Malay-Muslim coalition. 

The nature of politics in Malaysia since the 1970s has been largely communal, in no small part due to Barisan Nasional’s overwhelming dominance, causing most Malaysians to only recognise similar power sharing structures as “stable” or viable to run the country, with all other ideologies only capable of playing a peripheral role.