Ok we're going off topic here. Even though I'm not a US citizen,
isn't it evident both major parties in the US represent big
corporations and banks? I know many of my views do not conform to
mainstream politics so you may want to read direct democracy on
wikipedia. I appreciate your views but I simply believe nothing
will change for the better in the current political spectrum.
It is fine if you are using the meaning of "Direct Democracy" as
given in Wikipedia, as I thought that you have some other exotic
versions as there are many creative thinkers who has their own
bogey versions too.
If you were to narrow your appreciation of Democracy to the US
experience of the the politicians being too cosy with the big
corporations, and use it to demean the concept of democracy in its
pristine form that has been practised in Switzerland, Sweden,
India, Finland, South Korea, and now in Japan.
Can the current political spectrum in Singapore be better than a
system that allow Citizens to make Government more responsible and
answerable to the Citizens ?
As matters stand, this Government is no longer accountable to
Singaporeans, and find the citizens to be no better than dumb, and
animals to be trained, and why should the Elite Talents be held to
ransom by the electorate ?
This is the position of MM LKY in his elitist position that
require him to scheme for the last 15 years as to how to preserve
his position, which explains even the extreme measure of giving the
senior citizens 2 votes as he believe that the Senior Citizens are
on his side.
The PAP sees Singaporeans no better as mere digits.
"If you don't
include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them
on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...So what
happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb
people in the next generation. That's a problem." -Lee
Kuan Yew in 1983 National Day Rally
"One-man-one-vote is a most
difficult form of government. From time to time the
results can be erratic. People are sometimes fickle. They get bored
with stable, steady improvements in life and in a reckless moment
they vote for a change for change's sake. This is the danger for
Singapore, not in this election, because the results cannot be a
disaster this time. But it can be in the future." - Lee Kuan
Yew, pre-election speech 1984
"Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the
problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and
they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of
the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like
with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know
that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we
are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today
deliberately urinate in the lifts." - Lee Kuan
Yew on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas,
1997
"At the end of
the day, we are so many digits in the machine. The
point is – are these digits stronger than the competitors' digits?"
- MM Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore workers, History of Singapore,
2005
"Low salaries
will draw in the hypocrites who sweet talk their
way into power in the name of public service, but once in charge
will show their true colour, and ruin the country." - LKY on
Minister's Pay, 2007
Have Singaporeans not seen the true colors by now ?
Was it not the low wages that existed in the late 1950s
when ordinary citizens were involved in Politics ?
Perhaps LKY was an extra-ordinary citizen then.
