Fear and Stupidity in Singapore Politics

It's arguable if excessive power is a worthwhile traffics for progress, but it is undeniable the PAP held and used it's excessive power brutally for the last 50 years.

Like all systems with excessive power, fear was in the heart of it? Oppose them verbally? They will use ISA and lock you up. Trying to oppose them in parliament? You will be bankrupt with defamation lawsuits in no time.

All this happened. History has not been kind to the PAP in this regard, and anyone who denies this can't see a car if it was about to hit them. However, it's arguable if this excessive use of power is with it, with the growth of Singapore from a slum to our metropolitan city.

However, this fear is fading away. With the rise of he internet, people can comment on the government anonymously. They can now reach the Singapore populist without going through the censored Singapore press (which, by the way, is one of the more censored in the world). Anonymity has allowed voices to be heard, controversies to be fairly expanded upon, and opened the eyes of Singaporeans to the previous fear tactics and torture (yes, the PAP tortured ISA detainees. Torture.)


I am so enraged today not because of that. I am still undecided whether all that fear was worth it for modern Singapore. But instead, I became frustrated at the stupidity the PAP old guard to shut the fuck up. Case and point:

"[Presidential Election] showed strong support for PAP"

-Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Yaacob Ibrahim

Wait... The one so clearly backed by PAP barely won it at ~30%. Woah?

 Pointing out that the combined vote share for Dr Tony Tan and Dr Tan Cheng Bock - both former PAP MPs - was about 70 per cent, Dr Yaacob said: "There's strong support for the party in that sense. But it's clear that there are people who are divided, as explained by the Prime Minister, (who) were basically having to decide between two very good candidates." 

WHAT THE FUCK? >.<


No, PAP. Do not fool yourself. You are on the loosing end. People do not want the close PAP relation to Tony Tan. Thus Tan Cheng Bock, who, ran as an independent, even trying to distance himself from his PAP MP past, championing when he spoked out rather when he agreed.


...As proven by foreign press with sensational and awesome headlines....

"Tantamount to a humiliation"

-The Economist

“There is currently a disconnect between the constitutional role of the president and what people would like to see it evolve to,” said Vishnu Varathan, an economist at Capital Economics (Asia) Pte in Singapore. At first, Tony Tan had looked like “a shoo-in, but the other candidates have come out strongly.”

-Bloomberg

A close presidential election confirms the growing rift between the ruling party and the public

-Wall Street Journal


The PAP old guard has been known to make plain retard statements (repentgate), but this shit has to stop. Don't get me wrong- they are efficient and flat out one of the most effective in the world, but if they continue to think they are in a comfortable political situation, we'll just have to find a new government.

I don't care if a government is good, if it do not have the support of its people, it is illegitimate and must be taken down. I want to clarify at this point I am not anti-PAP, but there must be sufficient opposition to make this democracy a legitimate one (ie. ABLE TO BLOCK BILLS.) before any alternatives can be heard.


If they really don't start implementing some populist measures instead of those aimed at blind growth, or stop making plainly wrong and offensive comments, they will lose more than a single minister in the next elections.