Government leaders have called for change, but they themselves
are controlled by the old guards who come across as being too
obsessed with their own personality cult than nation building to
bother to change.
There are good people among Singaporeans but many of these good
people have been exiled by defamation suits or beaten
psychologically and politically to keep their low profile from
politics.
The few Liang Shan brothers hibernating in the cyberspace mountain
who have the sense of justice and commitments are not enough. They
are too loose and too few. They need to get together selflessly and
form political organization of larger perspective and functions
than pure political parties which are too weak any way to make a
difference. Such political organizations can groom and support
future political talents but for such organization to arise and
succeed they need to adopt proper set up and objective goals and
accountable processes so as to invovel a fairly large network of
talents to come up with solutions and alternatives to solve
national problems and issues.
The tea sessions are the form and not the substance. To get the
real political talents with passion, and commitments while in
possession of ability, the net has to be pretty larger than a few
scholars or academic persons.
The newbies inducted by the ruling party now are mostly
impressionables or academically notable people of the same mould
and cast as the civil service or the ministers lacking overall
passions, commitments or perspectives. They cannot convince the old
guards to accept new solutions and changes or move to a new
direction.
Come another election, many newbies will be bundled out
cermoniously again with excuses like given previously "not having
baptism of fire" not "in been through battle" or some such-like
reason. The fact is even if the newbies or some of the newbies have
those abilities will they be given the leeway to disagree with many
past assumptions and policies that have gone wrong.
Election after election Singaporeans have brought up this fear for
change because the leaders were too self-centred with their own
past policies which have been designed to control and
legalistically ride roughshod over many of people's genuine needs
and aspirations.
Singaporeans are left with one venue to groom political talents to
be future leaders of visions and commitments and ability -
political organizations which will serve as facilitators to future
political common plans and alternatives.
Political parties have been controlled and overwhelmed with
defamation suits and many of them do not attract people of calibre.
So the only way forward is to get people to join political
organization and keeping such organizations firmly supported by
citizens.
As citizens there is only one place to seek and groom political
talents - through setting up common goals and objectives through
joining political organizations.
