Originally Posted by
elephanto
Originally Posted by
Thick Face Black Heart
You are missing the bigger picture. WP has to grow and that means inevitably clashing with other parties who also want to grow. There is no Pakatan coalition in singapore.
Lets look at it from this angle: Suppose WP plays nice and let every other party have the places they all want. What the PAP will do is create a dozen parties with mediocre members and then gobble everything up. Tell me how's that going to improve SG politics. You can only help politics advance by growing your party and becoming a bigger voice in parliament. To do that, you MUST contest more seats every time. Its as simple as that.
And its not a zero sum game either which is ultimately the point you are making, because it forces other parties to either improve on their game, or resign to being drowned out by WP. Who wins? The electorate wins.
I think you should read carefully what others are saying here. Its not fair that others take the time to understand and respond to your POV but you don't put in similar effort.
bro, i was thinking how to comment on nice-gook's seeming bafflement ... and i must say u said it all in a most unsentimental but hard truth post : succinct and totally economical.
concur with yr fair take on WP's current approach : to collaborate with a whole riff-raff of breast beating, pig-headed 'Opposition' figures is totally futile. witness all forms of electorate speed dating in the pass : nothing strategic totally gian peng pork distribution style.
as to the other forummers comment that in spite of his view that Mah/PAP is strong in Tampines why did Goh Meng Seng target Tampines?
To me, quite simple.. Meng Seng was at one time damn fucking pleased he came out with this moniker "minister-specific strategy" - he thought it was such a brainwave.
Well, as Deng would say : derive truth from facts.