USING absolutely ZERO cent of their own money, they are using EVERY cent Tax money to do ‘good’ for the people who tend to give them Points for doing ‘Good’. This is absolutely a vote pulling strategy.
I talked to a stranger just now to assess the level of understanding of policy failures of PAP.
Here are my findings :
1. Subject : Aunty in her 50′s.
2. I asked for her understanding of CPF / HDB policies.
3. I learnt that she is oblivious :
a. 60% land cost . She understands flat is a lease but does not see the problem of such high land cost tied to hdb flat which we do not own .b. 2.5% cpf rate is the lowest in the world for social security. She does not know this. She is comparing within sg only.
c. Retirement fund used to pay overpriced flat. She is oblivious that when retirement fund is largely used to pay for flat, the peasants’ retirement fund is DEPLETED significantly such that as many as 70% will not be able to retire or withdraw their cpf upon retirement due to min sum and shortfall of money in their cpf.
d. They do not see the Big Picture how the CPF-HDB-MS-Landcost-accrued interest schemes have been designed knowing that sinkies mostly cannot meet the min sum.
e. She is oblivious that the total mortgage + cpf accrued interest will be over 1 million after living in flat for 50 years.
From this conversation, I learnt that :
A. Election is a competition of which party can win the psychology of sinkies. Its not purely about Truths and Logic. Human Psychology is not purely based on Logic. Eg. Emotions.
B. Older generation tend to FORGIVE PAP base on the ‘Good’ things the gov have done. Their illogical logic is if PAP does 10 good things for the people, they can be forgiven for 1 wrong doing.
C. Older generation tend to FIND Excuses for PAP. Anything has an excuse. But this does not make a Wrong Right. This older generation psychology is such that they will use their wild imagination and grab an excuse, regardless if strong or not, to excuse the PAP.
D. Older generation Psychology is based on FEAR. They say that because they never experienced any other Ruling party, they choose to condone PAP in exchange of Avoiding the Risk of Change and Uncertainty. By this logic, to them, PAP must rule forever .
E. Older generation Psychology is even when you cornered them with PAP Policy failures and flaws, they will say if PAP cannot do the job, Opposition also Cannot. This is a dangerous and unfair assumption. They regard PAP as the best. If the best failed, no one else can do the job better. By this logic, to them, PAP must rule forever.
SOLUTION:
Children of these old sinkies must have patience in changing their minds. A Ton of Effort is necessary since its not gonna be easy to achieve.
Conclusion:
GE is a report card on the level of success of Social Engineering. Truth is not included.
Khaw Nina Boo