I think the Right Honorable MP should understand that word
mollycoddled bears with it a whole lot of emotional baggage
especially in the present context. Many individuals are
losing their jobs, seeing their incomes diminish, families
struggling to make ends meet. I don't think mollycoddled is exactly
the most apt term to encourage unity and fortitude during these
troubled times.
Agree with you on that
Children are paying a hell lot more these days for goods, doing
all they can to survive. Old folks whom are parents, had worked
hard to build up our nation, are shocked by the magnitude of
the present crisis.
They worked hard in the belief that there will be better times,
and are sadden that instead find their children struggling today,
even though it is a global event and happening to EVERY family in
the world.
They approached their MPs with only hope that the present party
whom they had faith in, and trusted for so long, seeking for
solutions or at least a bit of compassion. And 'mollycoodle' is
what they got.
If the MP had said in in good times, everyone or most would have
accepted it and self reflect on our traditional values. But hell,
this aint good times. Still, he has the right to voice out, just
like everyone else, though it was the wrong thing to say or couched
wrongly and at the wrong time.
Fortunately he is ONLY a backbencher, only a MP, and NOT
the cabinet whom make the decisions after legislative debate,
along with our perm secs and civil services. I doubt they would
follow or agree with what he said, or at least not the right time
to say it, a vital traditional value that had
been true and useful for societies to grow and saw us to
our present.
