Originally posted by Blue Dolphin:
I try to read all posts in this thread with an open mind. I sense
that most want to see fireworks, regardless of the outcome. At any
given day, I would have joined in and set some off myself. However,
election is a serious matter.
i don't agwee with your preception. we are not wanting to see
fireworks for the sake of seeing fireworks. election is a serious
matter and we cannot let any single party dictate our lives
...
Fireworks are good for any occasion, but they are not going to
shoot down enemy bomber. The threat of sliding down a slippery
slope is cliché but a very real one.
but a complete stranglehold by any single party, like the Nazis for
example, could bring the country to destruction to satisfy the
whims of a single person.
I have grown up. I can do what I want, when I like and how I like
it. This is the freedom enjoyed by any Singaporean. Confuse it not
with the responsibility in voting enjoin by all
Singaporeans.
your portrayal of the electorate is completely off the mark and
belittling. this is the sort of comments that put people off and
convince them even more of the unreasonableness of the govt.
A good politician, to me, is one who can understand my problem, my
anxiety and my needs. He is one who can lead me out of confusion,
provide good and clear policies for me and my fellow countrymen. At
the least, he is a role model for me and my children, at the next
level, he leads a few thousand and at the ultimate, commands a few
million.
a better politician, is one who confuses you, and makes you think
he is milking you for your own good ...
Save a rare few, opposition parties candidates pop-up during
election time with no track record. If we do not place our money to
fund managers with poor track record, what is the logic for us to
vote for candidates with iffy background and
capability?
it is the same with the PAP candidates, popping up for the first
time during election time. the incumbent fund managers are also
performing poorly in recent time. so should we therefore change
fund managers?
Incumbents have the upper hand and opposing candidates are
underdogs. This is true everywhere. Cognisant of an unbalanced
playing field, I am sure, is basic of any politician worth his
salt. Extra effort is thus required of the underdogs. Which brings
me to the question of what PAP underdogs in Hougang and Potong
Pasir have done over the years and what Opposition parties
underdogs have done in GRCs and single wards?
of course the incumbent would like to win any election unfairly.
question is, do we as electorates allow it? allowing unfair
elections, allowing 'mandate' based on unfair elections is to allow
them complete free rein in running this country like they own it.
when that happens, you know what will happen? their salaries would
increase, bus fare will increase, this will increase, that will
increase ...
what individual candidates can do has to do with the purse strings
extended to them. in the case of the PAP, it's simply the nation's
money, so if you're comparing who can do more, then i would say
anybody, be it PAP or POP, that controls the nation's wealth, will
be able to do more.
If and when I am called upon to vote, I will be looking for
politician of life (if I may be allowed to paraphrase Minister
Mentor Lee). I will be looking for a politician, with passion and
conviction, who can organise all of us to battle for a better
tomorrow.
but don't you see? the passion occurs once every five years, after
all the rhetoric and hoo har, we'd be back to this increase and
that increase ... slow and unrelentless milking of us citizens
...
