Alex Au: LHL's self-proclaimed moral superiority needs to be treated with sceptism

[Confuseous]

There was something else in Lee’s statement about getting politics right that bothered me. It reminded me of this slip of the tongue during the 2006 general election when he told voters not to vote in opposition members of parliament. If they did, he would have to spend all his time thinking up ways to “fix” them and he’d have no time to govern, he told his crowd. Given this history, one cannot help but ask what Lee really means by “getting politics right”. Does he picture a scenario of the People’s Action Party reigning with little dissent inside and outside parliament? One where his government has complete freedom to implement whatever muddled-headed policies it chooses, beguiled by its own sense of inerrant wisdom?

If one takes into account runaway housing prices, soaring healthcare costs, crowded and frequently-breaking down public transport, wide income disparity, all kinds of restrictions on liberty, and a steady destruction of the independence of many state institutions, I am not at all convinced that we have “right politics” producing right outcomes.

In fact, one can easily argue that when Brazilians took to the streets to demand accountability, and when President Dilma Rousseff acknowledged the validity of people’s dissent, promising to turn policies around, that was politics that was much more “right” and likely to produce better outcomes than Lee and the PAP’s brand of silence-all-opposition rule.

http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2...o-have-got-both-politics-and-economics-right/

 

[enterprise2]

Re: Alex Au: LHL's self-proclaimed moral superiority needs to be treated with sceptis

The 'politics' right when Opp takes greater than 1/3 of seats in Parliament.

 

[ray_of_hope]

Re: Alex Au: LHL's self-proclaimed moral superiority needs to be treated with sceptis

The carping from AA is because his preferred party, SDP, will never be elected.

 

[escher]

Re: Alex Au: LHL's self-proclaimed moral superiority needs to be treated with sceptis

The 'politics' right when Opp takes greater than 1/3 of seats in Parliament.

The politics will be right when all the PAP maggots and cockroaches are swept away in 2016 , or before that when the smear of shit on sole of shoe finally go eat joss sticks and the fucking PAP implode in orgy of back stabbing and front stabbing as their self interests and greed and pure filth all come out.

The civil serpents and kangaroos and paper generals will be gathered in a big cook pot.

 

[Satyr]

Re: Alex Au: LHL's self-proclaimed moral superiority needs to be treated with sceptis

At least AA checks for spelling, typos and grammar before publishing. If nothing else, you will learn good English and presentation from Bread. That the hell is sceptis ? I doubt AA is claiming to be more moral. He probably assumes he is no less moral than anyone else. He does assume he has something sensible to add to our socio-political discourse. Fair enough, or else why blog at all.

 

[ray_of_hope]

Re: Alex Au: LHL's self-proclaimed moral superiority needs to be treated with sceptis

At least AA checks for spelling, typos and grammar before publishing. If nothing else, you will learn good English and presentation from Bread. That the hell is sceptis ? I doubt AA is claiming to be more moral. He probably assumes he is no less moral than anyone else. He does assume he has something sensible to add to our socio-political discourse. Fair enough, or else why blog at all.

And here I thought people blog largely for sheer vanity and not much more than that.

 

[laksaboy]

Re: Alex Au: LHL's self-proclaimed moral superiority needs to be treated with sceptis

And here I thought people blog largely for sheer vanity and not much more than that.

Not everyone is like that attention whore Xiaxue.