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18-11-2014, 05:10 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Unless a charismatic leader emerges, able to attract large numbers of voters towards him (or her), future elections are not really for opposition parties to win, but for the PAP to lose. This is most likely to happen when its much-vaunted competence is seen to decline. Frustrations build up and people start to desert the right end of the opinion field and migrate leftwards as in the diagram below (Please note my use of “left” and “right” does not connote political ideology, only to relative positions on my diagrams). The process looks like one of a comet breaking up.
Han added too that “These discussions might seem odd to external observers when there isn’t a successor to the ruling party in sight.” Indeed, this is a question posed to me from time to time, especially from foreign academics, journalists, and on a recent occasion, by a diplomat recently arrived in Singapore.
My answer to this is that this very question indicates a tendency to view politics in Singapore within a western democratic frame, where parties or coalitions of parties alternate in power. I think this is misleading; it is important to stop accepting as fact the PAP’s propaganda that we have a democracy. We have little more than a veneer of democracy masking what is essentially an.....
http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/20...met-breaks-up/ (http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/when-a-comet-breaks-up/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?194187-PAP-s-antics-show-it-is-already-paralysed-by-fear-of-losing-power&goto=newpost).
Unless a charismatic leader emerges, able to attract large numbers of voters towards him (or her), future elections are not really for opposition parties to win, but for the PAP to lose. This is most likely to happen when its much-vaunted competence is seen to decline. Frustrations build up and people start to desert the right end of the opinion field and migrate leftwards as in the diagram below (Please note my use of “left” and “right” does not connote political ideology, only to relative positions on my diagrams). The process looks like one of a comet breaking up.
Han added too that “These discussions might seem odd to external observers when there isn’t a successor to the ruling party in sight.” Indeed, this is a question posed to me from time to time, especially from foreign academics, journalists, and on a recent occasion, by a diplomat recently arrived in Singapore.
My answer to this is that this very question indicates a tendency to view politics in Singapore within a western democratic frame, where parties or coalitions of parties alternate in power. I think this is misleading; it is important to stop accepting as fact the PAP’s propaganda that we have a democracy. We have little more than a veneer of democracy masking what is essentially an.....
http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/20...met-breaks-up/ (http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/when-a-comet-breaks-up/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?194187-PAP-s-antics-show-it-is-already-paralysed-by-fear-of-losing-power&goto=newpost).