Blue Dolphin,
[my section numbers mirror your paragraph order]
2) There is a saying, "don't cross your bridges before you come to
them." How can you tell that the slope is slippery without having
even looked at it yet? Politics is as fickle as the weather;
nothing in the political realm remains constant over ANY period of
time.
3) You generalize. ANd most unfortunately delude yourself, the way
TooFree does. Firstly, even if what you say is accurate about
yourself, I msut ask which class of society u come from: JC/Uni
(under)graduate / poly / ITE/ heartlander? If you come from one of
the first three, then take note that the rest of Singapore will
have a very different life from you. And secondly, minusing the
voting responsibility, which I interpret as allowing walkovers and
GRCs, there arre still alot of things which Singaporeans can't do,
unlike people in say Switzerland, whose Standard of Living we are
supposed to be aiming at. We can't form indepdent trade unions
(NTUC doesn't count), independent student unions. And even if we
were to accept that these necessarily cause disorder (which is
rather untrue in most cases excepting France and Taiwan), there
are
still many more restrictions on freedom of speech and expression,
and on Assembly. E.g Jehovah's Witnesses are banned, and so is the
Unification Church and Falungong; There are many activities and
even subjects schools restrict, even top schools like RI, the
disabled arre not subsidised significantly by the government at
all. And so on and so forth: just look at this forum, and you'll
see how many things Singaporeans CANNOT do HOW they LIKE it. Think
of how many Fandi Ahmads cannot attend the SPorts School, or how
many local artistes cannot perform at the Esplanade, not to mention
the law on chewing gum. Just investigate man...
4) One who COMMANDS millions is not necessarily one who UNDERSTANDS
millions of individuals personally.
5) Chicken-and-egg qn. Your "fund managers" will never have a track
record if they never get in. And anw, do the new PAP candidates
have track records of their own (not borrowed from their
predecessors)?
6) That is why many countries have election observers; and that is
why the IOC is not made up of athletes.
7) Oh C'mon, do you and TooFree and all others like you know what
"better future" you are hoping for? WHat do you ppl want to "battle
for"? Don't just repeat MM's words, coem up with your own better
slogans.
the (disenchanted) pikamaster (who shall be eligible to vote in 3
yrs time)
