Who called me..??
: )
Yes, me.
I am a very deep admirer and supporter of PAP.
It is born out of serious thinking.
In my humble opinion, the system is worth to continue, and in
fact, instead of being a disadvantage, Singapore's
semi-authoritarian state with one party dominance is actually an
advantage to Singapore.
Please allow me to elaborate.
In my opinion, one party dominance with strict press control and
comatose political activism is extremely condusive for the
advacement of a society.
It allows tremendous stability, tranquility, peace, harmony,
development, and continuity and progress.
First we have to understand something.
With a sterile and tranquil political landscape, enormous, in
fact humongous polical energy is saved, and can be channelled into
real, pragmatic, and practical doings for the transformation and
development of a society.
My thinking and understanding of the whole matter is like
this......how should I say....it's like the running of an
organzation...or a body....a kind of system....a running of
society, people, institution, a social system...in my opinion, it
is better to have a clear, concise, strict system, with unity,
continuity, cohesiveness, and less infighting.
The so-called "democracy" will have enormous negative
consequences and will inflict long term self damage to
Singapore.
Democracy looks good on paper, but fails in real life. It is
just the same like communism which looks good on paper but not
practicable in real life. Or economic theories like "people are
rational profit maximizing actors" when they are not.
Here are some of the pitfalls of democracy:
1. factionalism, polarization, sectarianism, ethnocentrism,
classism
2. electoral gerrymandering, lobbying, special interests, pork
barrel spending, horse trading, cow trading, vote buying, short
term gains and sacrifising long term goals.
3. complicated and cumbersome bureaucracy, decision-making, long
delays and debates. diffused and dispersed power centers.
4. no unity and sense of single purpose
5. add some more as you like
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The one I am most afraid of, is danger number 1.
All the so-called "democracy" are showing the signs above, and
especially symptom number 1.
Up to today I am still not convinced why democracy is supposed
to be so good.
It looks good on paper only, trust me.
The system that Singapore has right now is a superior
system.
It is rationally, and instinctively, a better system.
Regarding "press freedom",
"Press freedom" is a one total BS.
There is no correlation that a "free" press is supposedly better
for a society. What Singapore has right now is already a very
"free" environment where people can access any hundreds of news
outlets from all over the world just by a click of a computer
mouse.
What they are saying is that Singapore should not have a
directed, controlled, managed, participatory news outlet coming
from the state, the state should not have an involvement.
I do not believe in this.
One of the most, major, most important thing in society is the
media. The media can determine everything. Why should it be let to
run loose? Of course naturally when you want to run an affairs
well, you should run it well. And that means co-opting the major
levers and using them into achieving your overall objectives and
goals. I do not believe such a strategic lever should not be within
the state's hands.
So.
I want to wish PAP to rule Singapore for 100 more years.
