I blame Singaporeans for being stupid enough to allow themselves to be divided and conquered.
TJS allowed his self-interest to get in the way but he is not solely to blame. TKL and the other opposition members (including you UY) need to shoulder some responsibility too. TRE should get a big % of the blame.
The good news is that over 60% of Singaporeans OPPOSE cronyism, nepotism, cover-ups, elitism, and oligarchy. They OPPOSE the notion that Singapore can only be run by a select old boys' club (elite within the elite of the PAP) and their relatives.
Since margin is to tiny, I need to state for the record that I am regretful to have called for votes for TJS instead of TCB, because that could had tipped TT. However, TCB's supportive population was not obvious enough to show up, his rally Boh Seng Lee. - Any SMC in a GE also can have that kind of size of crowd in other words something like 1/87th of his support only had shown up to show face and show support. I they had shown up, and crowd size larger than TJS, I would had voted TCB myself and called people to vote him as well.
I say TCB's supporters are very subtle peasants , the are the silent Singaporeans who in their hearts already felt that LEEgime can not be permitted to continue. But they would however show nothing on the surface. I also say that the TCB supporters are those who fear the aggressive reformists. They just an Ex-LEEgime or Old-LEEgime to revert back to the good old times, they reject the present-LEEgime.
HOWEVER, I don't side with these people, and I do not need nor expect their support.
I aim only for a tiny minority who are willing and are capable to overcome the remains of LEEgime, and by paying the necessary price achieve the wanted result. We can not cater for too many people, it is a luxury to attempt that. LEEgime is a minority ruling these (peasant) majority. We only need another minority sufficient to overcome them while the majority (peasants) would just watch sitting on the fence fearfully.
Most political changes are done this way, ballots are just the tokens, sacred only to those people who believe in them.