Personally i believe fully in what you have to say here.
Yes, the PAP government has done very well in the development of
Singapore and i agree with much of their long tern plans (Building
the IR, F1 racetrack , attracting investments for solar panel
constructions, bioscience and the 3D industry) which would have
otherwise be blocked in parliament and take forever to start in a
liberal democracy.
Some of you may disagree with me, that is your right but i
believe LKY has done well for this country and deserves the
celebrity status he has now. I disagree with how he handles certain
things but can agree with the reasons on why he had to do so.
The current government are implementing ridiculous laws to
protect themselves and i'm begining to think that if i want to get
the police to come stop a robbery or murder i'd have to tell them
i'm staging a protest to get any worthy response. I often shudder
to think how easy it is for me to stage terrorist attacks
considering how ineffective our police force is becoming.
Also, the recent Mas Selemat escape is an immense scandal, it
proves how fragile our security is and how ill prepared to deal
with people who simply have a better survivor instinct. Worst of
all, WKS did not have to take any responsibility for allowing the
escape and failing to recapture him. Those of all that has been
through NS would understand that when a unit is slack, it means the
entire command structure has a problem and it always starts from
the top
All that said however, i'm still against a liberal democracy and
free media. Of course, my definition of free media would probably
be somewhere near the extreme of "say what you want and to hell
with the consequences". A lot of times, the Truth hurts and is
difficult to stomach and accomplishes nothing but a moral
responsibility.
I dislike how liberal democracy allows mostly lawyers to get in
Parliament, how the system itself only allows reactive
policies and proactive policies are always shut down.
Jimmy Carter (US President) have voiced out the problem and M.King
Hubbert ( a geoscientist) have predicted that the US would
have to be an importer of oil by 1974 but in the end the Americans
have realised they have done nothing to prepare for Peak Oil and
instead have created a population that consumes more energy per
person than anywhere in the world. Their electrical grids are not
even prepared to deal with switching to EV support.
America practices supposedly free media but can we really say
that? How many networks have portrayed the Iraq War from the Iraqis
perspective? Who do you think gives their funding?
Why i feel the China Communist Party would probably be able to
survive far better than India? Because their leadership is led by
scientists who could understand the cold hard numbers to avoid
disasters, not by lawyers who know what to say to make the people
happy but have no freaking idea how to plan ahead.
I'm 25, previously i purposely throw my vote to the opposition
even though i had no freaking idea what the opposition starts for.
Now i realised how stupid i am to throw my vote in such an
irresponsible manner. I do not want an Anwar or Chee Soon Juan to
be be anywhere near the government.
If the opposition wants respect, let them get people who can
argue as well as Chiam See Tong and Slyvia Lim. I believe the
people of Singapore is slowly maturing to "might" be able to handle
a more liberal democracy and soon the opposition would be
able to fill their ranks with far more competent membership. But
i'm crossing my fingers until then.
I cannot agree with the assumptions underlying your statement
that MM Lee has done the right things to restructure the economy or
bring about a more just and equitable society for all to work as a
united country.
It is precisely because he has run dry of ideas from his taxing
and profiteering system that the whole economy has lost the right
kind of entrepreneurs or economic competitiveness that he has no
choice but to be forced finally to resort to IR or keep quiet about
so many prostitutes coming here to operate in our red light
districts.
Please read the alternative system of government under the
thread "Minimalist Taxing Maximalist Facilitator Government is what
we want" for more information about what he could have done to
bring about such a society.
As for your view that China now has better engineer/scientist
leaders who are better able to provide many solutions to its
immense problems, I fully agree with you on this observation. If we
want to produce a more united country while bringing about
competitiveness, we should not keep putting up so many lawyers to
run our country.
Lawyers by their training are protectionistic and litigious and
tend to run the country treating their citizens as potential
trouble-makers or adversaries to be controlled constantly with all
sorts of laws and enforcements.
Too many lawyers among our ministers and MPs will produce
eventually a litigious society with avoiding of responsibilities
through manipulations of laws rather than solving problems.
We are being divided now as a country all because of too much
doings and manipulating by the lawyers to get what they want to
protect themselves and their own selfish agendas instead of serving
the people. A house divided is a house in doom. This is what the
lawyers will do because they perceive people as adversaries and
pass all kinds of laws on theory "X" instead of theory "Y" approach
which finally negative creativity and entrepreneurship running down
the mass practical knowledge applications by the people which can
only be created based on theory "Y".
The whole government has to be overhauled with more scientists,
technologists and entrepreneurs who know the real fizz and
functions in every aspect of the economy and who will build up a
whole infrastructure to tap on people's practical talents in every
field and use them for successful team building and not so much
fighting among the people as we are seeing now for years.
Only when we place truly knowledgeable people who know how to
listen and put up the right plans in all the right departments will
we succeed.