What are they trying to do? They are trying to win the hearts
and minds of the younger generation who are more vocal. They do
that by trying to mingle with young people at zouk creating cult
popularity.
The younger generation I sum it up is ripe for harvest, though not
everyone like that but generally there are many:
(when I refer to you it is referring the younger singaporean)
You the twenty something school leaver or graduate is someone just
recently joined the workforce. Initially you have a lot of high
hopes and high aspirations, you find a job but at your work place
maybe you report to this lower qualification idiotic boss or snake
eating senior who is a lot older than you & obviously earning
more but doing a lot less than you, while you are working your butt
off doing his job for him. Or maybe he talk like lowclass chao ah
beng, so you don't like him and he tries to press you down
everytime you try to outpace him. Obviously you are not very
happy.
So like most younger folks you join the musical chairs group and
quit your job only to meet another like your ex-senior or boss or
someone worse, after bumming around a few years you get tired and
disillusioned of your dreams, maybe you see some of your friends
getting on better than yourself, you feel the preassure,
frustration and emptiness of your own efforts as one recent forumer
had posted, put it shortly you are very impatient for success but
immature for it. So you start to b itch and complain abt every damn
thing like the way some people do when they write into ST forum abt
petty issues that they are not happy with.
Suddenly a new government comes in full of fresh faces and says "do
not wait to be invited to tea, instead yourself try to do something
for your own country" and announces that they will go around the
whole island to ask for feedback, suddenly you feel flattered when
a government surveyor cares enough to write down your feedback or a
minister/prime minister is asking you the immature school leaver
graduate crybaby for an opnion. You feel resurgence of new hope to
make up for your lost dreams, You join to ranks of other cry babies
in a new vogue to try your utmost to b itch even louder in ST forum
and elsewhere hoping someone will hear you & invite you to tea
soon.
My advice to you, get & grab all you can because its your youth
that they are after. One day when you turn 30 or 40 and look over
the shoulder you will see the same government trying to court the
same younger you but has totally ignored the older one.