The government has over the years been using
propaganda to paint a picture as if without the authoritarian
leadership of LKY everything will fall into chaos.
Nothing can be further from the truth. Today
people have matured with education and travel etc and they do know
what are rights and wrongs although they do not generally express
them in public.
Just talk to a group of reasonably educated people and you will be
surprised they have quite good ideas what were right and wrong with
our current government policies and what would be good for the
nation going forward.
What are need now is active ongoing political evolution to a model
which will capture the good and reject the bad. It will take some
years before people will fully realize the goodness of democracy.
It is only with democracy all citizens can play a greater part in
nation building and we could again feel the confidence and buzz in
every aspect of our national life.
Active citizens play an important role here. As a
young nation we have yet to be given the chance to mature and
benefit from the full goodness of democracy such as that of the
Westminster model.
We should stop blindly listening to all the past and current
propaganda of the government that western democracy is no good
which will cause instability. Such propaganda has been driven into
our national consciousness so much over the past 40 years that many
have believed in such propaganda.
Look at the democracy being followed by Scandinavian countries,
Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan or Hong Kong. They have
achieved much progress without causing so much problems to their
ordinary citizens because their citizens are motivated to play a
greater role in contributing to nation building which in our case
is totally claimed to be the achievement of the power that
be.
system of government people are more motivated
and more civic minded and contributing to greater stability and
progress to their nations.
On the other hand more and more tyrannical and authoritarian
regimes everywhere are causing oppressions and great suffering and
even genocide.
I am afraid our authoritarian rule is too deteriorating by the days
with the press media timidly reporting good news while active
citizens are giving up playing their positive role as seen in the
more advanced democracies which our leaders carefully avoided
comparison with.
Our brand of authoritarian governing system disguised as
Westminster democracy is bringing about a deeply divided and
fractured society and people are frustrated with all the power play
and arrogance and callousness of the whole system relying only on
power to get its way.
If unchecked it will lead to instability, explosions or implosions.
At least 10 citizens who have the means are migrating every day as
they see little or no future in such an authoritarian rule.
Even foreigners who took up PR or citizenship here may not stay
cohesive or loyal being interested in coming here for their jobs as
they eventually will be just as unhappy with oppressions seen every
day in the way government is running this place for its own selfish
interests and agenda.
If our leaders sincerely want to avoid chaos they should ease off
their suppressions and oppressions and let citizens be free to play
their role in upholding justice and equity or freedoms of choice in
electing their government.
What solution do we have as a people? I have suggested in other
thread we should go back to the original institutional Westminster
model which will work better balancing the need for leadership with
accountability and responsbility.
People will stay as master not the servants in such a system. They
will be empowered to exercise their role again to vote good MPs of
their free choice but be forced by GRCs into all the walkovers and
from such people power we will proceed to evolve our own best
political system most suitable for us.
and give power to MPs to choose their best to be
PM and there should be no hidden power in anyone to diectate
deviations from such institutional safeguards against abuse for
whatever leadership or paranoid reasons.
Let us active citizens ponder over the full goodness of
institutional Westminster Model which contains all the proper check
and balance which is the only way to motivate all the work together
to build our own good model eventually.
Abolish the GRC. Expose all the selfish or self-centred propaganda
against democracy. Open up and let all citizens have equal
opportunity to participate in election or be freely permitted to
stand election without all the impediment from the GRC.
For those who constantly rail against democracy as being the cause
of stablility and chaos I will say that this is only a propaganda
or excuse to continue the authoritarian rule which does not benefit
the ordinary people. On the other hand if any system is the
cause of instability it is not difficult to see that authoritarian
is the most likely to bring ruins and chaos and not
stability.