"The real world is very different from cyber space" - Dr Soloist Koh

[Cerebral]

Sadly, I disagree.

The people who use the internet are mainly people from their 20s to their 40s.

The PAP's main block of votes comes from the older generation, those aged 60 and above. These are the less educated aunties and uncles who remember the bad old days, and who are grateful to the PAP for turning Singapore into a metropolis.

However, they are so shrouded from the day-to-day realities of working Singaporeans (some don't even take the MRT) that they don't realise the PAP of the 1960s and 1970s is no longer existent. Once upon a time there were capable men like Goh Keng Swee, Toh Chin Chye and S Dhanabalan, working under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew. Love or hate him, he was an excellent politician - probably the first and last of his kind of the PAP.

Today's PAP is full of technocrats, scholars and policy wonks with little or no empathy for real issues on the ground. They are also unable to think like politicians and have little charisma - many of them have admitted that they are "not politicians", and instead they see themselves as civil servants or "officials".

I do have very strong sway over my parents.... So much for the majority of votes from over 60.

 

[LeMans2011]

he could draw a lesson or two from our resident political analyst here on anger management :p:p:p
got to hand it to GMS, he's good

No skill required. You just need really really thick skin.

 

[halsey02]

LKY was a good politician. Good human being? Not so much.

Yes, but please throw in a nation of people who would support him, that you have to give him a credit, but later turn around and slapped the nation of people who supported, those people needs their head to be inspected.

 

[lianbeng]

lianbeng says: doctor should know the difference between cyberspace n real world mah! why get so worked up online?

 

[myfoot123]

In his rally speech, he admitted to visiting forums to read about the campaign and from his facial expression and the rising pitch of his voice, one could sense that he is actually quite pissed off, although claiming that he sometimes found internet chats demoralising and sometimes funny. He feels that the warmth that he receives from residents confirm this.

Let's hope that the real world does not let him down.

He loves what he read from Straits Times, just like many PAP ministers with not cloths and pretended there is.

 

[streetsmart73]

LKY was a good politician. Good human being? Not so much.

hi there


1. aiyoh!
2. good meh.
3. skiful cum cunning hoh

 

[biondi]

Nope, the online world is more honest precisely because we can say things anonymously without any repercussions.

 

[Bigfuck]

I do have very strong sway over my parents.... So much for the majority of votes from over 60.

Many of the old are now disillusioned. They will show their discontent tomorrow.

 

[Confuseous]

Sadly, I disagree.

The people who use the internet are mainly people from their 20s to their 40s.

The PAP's main block of votes comes from the older generation, those aged 60 and above. These are the less educated aunties and uncles who remember the bad old days, and who are grateful to the PAP for turning Singapore into a metropolis.
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Maybe the age group is correct as indicated but the internet per se is not restricted to those actually at the keyboards. Children pass on information to their elders during family gatherings. The aunties in the market try to impress each other by passing on what they have heard from their children. Internet links are easily passed on via every user's own mail box.

That all the big cannons have been unleashed in PE, that the MSM today were running pro-PAP stories on 'cooling day' (including the less than subtle interview with Halimah to reach out to Malays), that 5 major initiatives were announced during the 9-day event all indicate that PAP is fully aware of the ground situation but maintains that they have always been pro-Singaporean.

 

[AppleIIe]

The people who use the internet are mainly people from their 20s to their 40s.

Children pass on information to their elders during family gatherings.

I hope the older gen will be willing to listen to their children's plights. The internet has done a good thing to reveal the truth and make politics more transparent to more people.