The Architect & The Tenant: Malaysia’s Longest Con

This an expansion of the thread, Who's Worse: Mahathir or Anwar.

In this article, I will share an insight into what will happen in the following weeks:

Chapter 1 — The Cage Builder & The Key Keeper
This is the origin story of two political giants who shaped the same prison. One forged its bars in the name of “modernisation,” the other promised to break them but instead took the master key and built himself a study inside. Based on decades of leadership, comebacks, and a mutual understanding: the rakyat stays locked in.

Chapter 2 — The Masks We Wore
Mahathir’s mask: visionary doctor, economic saviour. Anwar’s mask: activist rebel turned reform champion. Strip them away and you see the same game of survival, consolidation, and carefully staged moral outrage.

Chapter 3 — Bumiputera Dreams, Crony Nightmares
How race-based affirmative action became a political ATM. Mahathir institutionalised it, Anwar refused to dismantle it. The tycoons kept their yachts, the kampung kept their ceilings.

Chapter 4 — Lawful but Awful
From Mahathir’s Internal Security Act crackdowns to Anwar’s cabinet compromises, each learned to play in the grey zone: follow the letter of the law, twist its spirit into submission.

Chapter 5 — The Immunity Government
Zahid’s survival is the perfect case study. It's not an anomaly but a feature. In the immunity government, charges are decoration, and reform is a campaign prop.

Epilogue — Legacy of Rot
The tragedy isn’t just what they did, but how well they trained the next generation to keep doing it. A system so intact it doesn’t matter who’s in charge when the machine runs itself.

Legal Guardrails

• All political events, policies, and scandals referenced are based on public record and widely reported sources.
• There will be no fabricated quotes or allegations unless it is satirical or a parody.
• My Closing disclaimer to you:
  “This is parody. Based on public record. No identity was harmed in the making of this confession.”