Recently, PM Lee made a remark about getting right politics for economic development and such, and netizens reacted.
Frequently, people will point the fingers at problematic policies…
PM Lee himself suggested he should have been far-sighted…
But neither of them are right.
For a government already completely crippled by Meritocracy, I am surprised so many learned 100% educated Singaporeans still expect any viable policies. The wise men do not expect a general who can’t calculate men properly to be able to assign wings. Such generals don’t know how to take on a 100,000 enemies with his 100,000 men but will tell you he’d do his best, and he’d achieve objectives and his strategy will be to send them in waves and wings and bla bla bla…
But how many will be scouts, how many will ambush, the mountain can hold how many lurking troops and for how long, how will be the weather, how many will be sent to lure the enemies, how many will defend, how many will cook… All these down to supply lines and resource allocation need real talents and understanding of the grounds. But for most Singaporeans be it pro-PAP or pro-oppositions or moderates, many still bark up the wrong tree.
PM Lee cannot be far-sighted, not back then for now, nor now for the future.
It is not very hard to understand.
What kind of people will decide what future, what future depends on what policies… and while netizens want PM Lee to deliver right policies, his honorable reaction will likely be “so what are the right policies?” if he even take public calls seriously. To the PM, to his consultants, they have been on the ‘right policies’ all the time~!!! Which was why some crap policies in the view of netizens were delivered. But on the other hand, netizens and even opposition parties have been offering rather dubious and unworkable policies as well.
Just the unpopular Population White Paper alone… WP has suggested simply to hold the number as it is… as if this is even possible and will help at all. NSP’s was simply holds to allow the employees to adjust… like forever, if I must honestly say. And many netizens offered tons of policies which pertain to no reasonable appreciation to politics nor professional workings; one of the most glaring examples comes during the housing policy shooting… Some suggest bring down prices by X%, by selling back to HDB… but on the sellers’ side, logically speaking they will revoke and want their HDB flats to be sold high and higher and for mortgages to finance a new condo or business… and to even rent out at better rates.
So yes… perhaps PM Lee does need to deliver right policies hence resulting in right politics.
Problem is, he certainly can’t.
Singaporeans’ flamings aside… His infamous choice for 2011 Ms Tin Pei Ling… Who can expect this little girl story teller to offer anything concrete at such critical times?
Honestly, did PM Lee seek her and others out to lead at all?
Then, we have ministers who’d spend billions just hoping to buy success for YOG and go all the miles of ‘forcing’ students to ‘volunteer’… we have ministers who can’t be bothered about how much a bike is, who supported TT Durai from start to the end, and we have all those leaders who have talked a lot but delivering zero result. Then in the midst of uproars against inflation, some ministers suggested NWC to increase wages… … regardless of productivity and state competitiveness. And so on and so forth.
As long as this is the situation, why do netizens demand better policies? It’s as if this is a valid demand at all!
With what comes better policies?
While it is commendable that netizens show concern of how badly the state has been run, there exists another problem… It’s like this… if your mummy is pouring oil to fire, but you are only able to scream and scream as in those silly movies, it only creates a mess and helps the mummy de-focus.
There are currently many parasites in the society… who made use of the governance’s crappy state to grab as much nutrients as possible to grow fat and fatter while dumping all the other ores to be the social problems of the body, and while sucking the nutrients, they themselves not only cannot perform better, but they deny those better ‘germs’ in the body of nutrients to develop the ores into gems.
In this society, everyone is whining about a better society by whining against others. And this is how the society can progress?
The topic today is not really about PM Lee’s talk about right politics. We all know why the people are rising up against PAP and voting against PAP. The micro-economics has been managed into a huge mess, and the solutions are merely talk talk talk and more talk. Inflation remains on an ‘healthy’ path up, job security is waning, quality jobs are well matched by new citizens and foreign talents, while public transport is really shocking nowadays with recent break-downs for hours many can’t expect to buy a car as the government discourages against it. The talk of entrepreneurship has also been a generally empty one. Not to say, single guys are encouraged to stay in 2 room flats to attract spouses… I am totally not surprised why Singaporeans are one of the most unhappiest in the world.
From health care to conscription to education to now… many ‘interesting’ legal cases… the strategy against people raising brows is simply to send legal threats. In this INCLUSIVE society, the top and bottom can’t communicate without lawyers’ letters…?
While PM Lee is grooming more ‘leaders’ to come, perhaps more you-know-whos or mostly… you-can’t-even-to-bother-whos, Singaporeans are bending the hope on oppositions especially WP.
Here is the right problem in Singapore’s politics and political future that will support Singapore’s economic ambition… …
Despite the increase in numbers, none of the opposition leaders, hence none of the parties can produce an alternative government that works, and…
Many who hate PAP think this is ok. Many ‘moderates’ even thought that there will be a party split since how many years… There are so many semi-professional speculations and irrational pushes for a real trouble boiling to the max. People are really pushing any ‘monkeys’ against PAP.
The problem is, because PM Lee refuses to find people of great caliber, the people are also part of the culprits by pushing for incompetent alternatives. And pushing incompetent alternatives solely to punish and replace PAP only promotes incompetency and begets an equally bad leadership, if not worse.
How can I not be worried?
While I can understand the sentiment to oust PAP due to its all powerful insistence to remain at such ‘competency level’ hoping a freak election result is once in every 50 years, I must strongly suggest and remind Singaporeans the alternative solution to bad leadership is not merely oppositions, the goal is not 2/3 majority to deny any side of constitutional power to change any laws, the real goal of every election is to get a leadership that will fight in the best interest of you!
Hence, the real alternative or goal of election if the PAP refuses to improve will be for the next government that works to be formed. And it must be a team of people with governing capability.
With or without awareness, the war of the classes has already begun in Singapore. The elites hope to use Meritocracy to continue at such competency level in the hope to be fed fat, but the common people have already realized this can’t go on, because now… the call to support their old parents cannot be answered if you can’t even confidently support your own families and children! Using laws to whip the people to behave to support the parents, to find work when quality jobs are already so little and HRM so messed up is ridiculous…
As President Obama said, those who work shouldn’t be under the poverty line! But many Singaporeans work and work and work overtime but the CPF minimum goal post keeps changing and changing and yes… many teachers will also realize next year when per hour PSI reaches 700 for 3 hours, they and their kids at schools will be choking because 24 hour PSI must be at 300 before there COULD be stop-work order. Under a ‘PAP is behind Singaporeans’ government, many people are wondering are they slaves, and now… what kind of work condition will they be subjected to…
And when they are down, how can they pick themselves up?
It is not difficult to understand why people are discarding the PAP. But what I can never understand is…
Who in the right mind will discard PAP only to promote an alternative government that will never work?
A few of us came together offline… from civil service, from grassroots, from oppositions… We went through the ‘alternatives’… While folks in the government are worried about government’s performance… and insistence to perform like that with more ‘incredible leaders’ handpicked by PM Lee to come, even those from the moderate and opposition groups express a grim future.
Even the online politics is pure madness… flavored with judgmental and immature flamings, cyber-bullying and havoc… …
At such time when we need real leaders… people are still talking about degrees, jobs, and all those nonsense.
A while ago, an infamous historical genius was a talking point online, made popular by an Hong Kong drama, his name is Han Xin from Liu Bang faction.
When we need a genius to win a war, we need Han Xin. While many talked about him… many Singaporeans don’t realize…
Han Xin was depending on relatives instead of farming or working for meals. Which is… Han Xin was a jobless depending on his Dad, or since his Dad was gone, his relatives and friends to live out his earlier days as an adult.
And the infamous Liu Bang…. he never was an elite. He was merely some gangster-like figure who drank at pubs and usually didn’t pay up… because his town and he was poor.
At such time when PM Lee talked about the right politics and netizens reacted…
I really must ask… for the sake of the future, are we looking at supporting oppositions, or supporting the next government? Are we looking for another government infested with scholars and crippled by Meritocracy that thinks it is indeed a world super power, powerful enough to even licence the world? Are we looking for another government telling you all the talk talk talk and delivering nothing? Or are we looking merely to have a 2 parties government… to do nothing and stuck directionless?
2016 is merely 2 and half years away… If discounting the election year itself, it’s only 1 and half year before the election machinery shalt begin.
I am not sure if joining the existing parties is wise…
But neither am I confident there are enough leaders to be assembled to truly fight for the interests of Singaporeans.
This is not an SOS from a Singaporean… this is an SOS from the state.
The future of the state is in our hands. Yet, Singaporean minds are somewhat feeble.
While many deem it choice-less in the war against PAP… I am hoping that there is a choice. I hope that real talented leaders will emerge.
I have read many online articles, complaining about many many issues, suggesting numerous solutions…
But Singaporeans only have one solution: True talented leaders.
Only leaders with capability can offer anything concrete to fight for your interest beyond talk talk and more talk. Only leaders will groom more leaders… Pretenders will only groom pretenders who will support pretenders in power.
What do you think?
If I were to assemble a team of governors online, do you think it is possible?
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