I have a neighbour who is a die-hard PAP Supporter.
He is the RC Chairman and organises many grassroots activities and helps out in PAP Meet the People Session
He used to be a high flying IT personnel and was the project manager of a bank, in charge of the hardware and software functions of the bank's backyard operations.
He was retrenched during the 2009 financial crisis and was unable to find a job.
He did mention that he suspected his job was being outsourced to cheaper foreigners in India as he touched base with some of his colleagues after he was retrenched. His colleagues were younger and cheaper so they were spared the axe.
He got a job in a VWO, as the PAP MP introduced him to a job in VWO. VWOs usually are not high pay and accept older job applicants as they are able to speak dialects.
When I asked him why he is so die-hard supporter and still continues to help out in Meet the MP session, he said that he doesn't have a choice.
I then told him he can always support opposition parties.
He said the "Alternative Media" such as TRS & TRE scare him off and reading those nasty comments by bloggers and commenters really put fear in his head.
If those who oppose PAP are always so anti-establishment and negative, he rather support PAP even though it is also because of PAP that he lost his job.
Edmund Lim