with due respect, have you ever wondered why there are so little oppositions in singapore? and why so MANY people cant wait to jump to a tea session with our PM to join the PAP? dun talk about the GRC system, dun talk about the deposits, dun talk about biased media, dun talk about sueing your pants off when you speak your mind...it's people whom they try to help actually makes fun of them?
Have you ever thought why these pple whom the opposition like Chee wants to help makes fun of them while others like Chiam and Low have enjoyed relative success for so many years?
Could it simply be *gasp* becoz the voters do not agree with Chee's antics. The stunts that he pulls the things that he talks about. Have it ever occur to you(it never seems like it ever occurred to Chee anyway) that voters won't like stunts like this and it has little to nothing to do with the government doing anything to him?
I stated this before(in this thread I think), Chee doesn't get it. There will always be a group of pple voting against the government no matter what. These are the same group of pple who would be "impressed" with his protest or conspiracy theories. These are also the group of pple whom he shouldn't even be trying to win over since they will vote for him no matter what.
The neutral voters are the ones whom he needs to win over, and who unfortunately are also the ones who thinks he is a joke. Just randomly pick a handful of pple on the street and ask their opinion of Chee and most would say the same thing. Why? Coz they do not agree with what he is doing.
I do not believe in using the excuse of PAP having a stranglehold on the media as an excuse, Chiam and Low have learned to use it to their advantage. Even during the last election, WP was able to use the James Gomez saga, an obvious stunt by the ruling party to put a bad name on WP to their advantage and did very well in the GRC that they contested in
Winning the election is not just about shouting out what you are fighting for, and making a lot of noise. Like I said earlier, it boils down to a simple popularity contest. Chee doesn't get what the public wants while Chiam and Low does, which is why the latter 2 gets elected and the former doesn't
and maybe my friends are all different from yours, they are either politically "cold" OR they think Chee raised many good points, just not in the popular way.
Like I stated above, Chee doesn't get it. He doesn't understand what the voter wants. It's like he just surrounds himself with like minded pple, Jokers like Uncle Yap, pple who think like him and he lose touch with the average guy on the street.
of course, PAP ministers can do the job, but the point is are they doing it for you??? they are efficient, but what happens to the saving from the efficency?
are you even thinking that they are doing to job to SERVE you? and not to SCREW you?
political reforms are not formed overnight, but you have to start somewhere, and i said before, why it must be now...we are going to be the minority soon.
you can wait till you have PRC all around you then you start the long process for political reform, but sorry, I can't.
The extraordinary event of pple rising up in mass protest against a government changing it overnight happens when they are in such desperate situation that a large proportion of the population are jobless, no roof over their heads, having problems putting food on the table.
In SG, how many pple actually have problems with any of those. FTs or no FTs, we have >3% jobless rate, closer to 5% at the height of the global economy crisis while most countries would be happy to reach 5% in a good year. The number of homeless pple is almost negligible. And when was the last time you ever heard of anyone staving to death? In SG, more pple probably have the problem of deciding where to go eat wind for their next vacation then to put food on their table. A popular uprising of the sort we are witnessing in the middle east isn't going to happen here anytime soon.
Can we wait for years before the political reforms takes place, I think the question should be do we have a choice. 2 things can happen during this time, the opposition parties finally figure out how to launch a real challenge against the ruling party or the ruling party screws up the country so bad that pple will take to the streets on their own accord
