44 men to make or break your life … and your country

[Confuseous]

Isn’t it silly for 3m people to succumb to 44 men and women elected by them to do as they please and with the people only at best, crying out loud but helpless to do anything about it? Who owns this country and who should decide how the people are to live their own lives?

Every 5 years our democratic system gives the citizens the right to elect 87 men and women to run the country and indirectly our lives. And by the rule of a simple majority, all it needs is 44 men to be elected from one party to form the ruling govt. In a normal democratic system they will manage the country under some platforms and ideas they sold to the electorate and are expected to work within those ideas and policies during their term in office. Varying from those consented ideas will be a violation of trust. Running away with new ideas that were not agreeable during the election promises would be a breach of faith and the people’s consent be sought again.

- http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2012/03/44-men-to-make-or-break-your-life-and.html

 

[zhihau]

Isn’t it silly for 3m people to succumb to 44 men and women elected by them to do as they please and with the people only at best, crying out loud but helpless to do anything about it? Who owns this country and who should decide how the people are to live their own lives?

- http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2012/03/44-men-to-make-or-break-your-life-and.html

ahh... so it seems to the untrained eyes that it takes only 44 to tick... more than that, in fact when the incumbent raises the number of Parliamentary seats each time, the threshold gets higher, two-thirds is what it takes, remember the two-thirds aye!