If you get on Facebook and The Online Citizen and mrbrown and Temasek Review, you'll see that the image of Singapore is radically changing from the young person's point of view. Civil society is rising up the way it did with AWARE and there are a lot of clever things being said that shows that the younger generation of voters cares about the country they live in and is, in some sense, getting more patriotic.
The only fear I have got is if the PAP makes a clean sweep of everything again. I think that will disenfranchise all the voices who want to be heard, and draw the rift between the silent majority and vocal minority even more. Also, have you seen the way the PAP has been insulting the electorate and the opposition? The New Paper outright fabricated a story on Chee Soon Juan and the SDP rally a couple of days ago, and they're facing a huge backlash from online now. The only problem is that nobody knows how many people are getting this balanced view. Netizens will always be loud and crazy but everybody else who isn't on the Internet is going to take TNP's views as truth. That's terrifying.
There are people who also disagree that we should keep encouraging foreigners to come, because policies don't take care of Singaporeans enough anymore. What's the point of maintaining our own country for others to come to if we don't get classed first?
I love Singapore, I really do, and that's why my heart aches for it. I thought in 2006 that the PAP would be afraid by the fact that they nearly lost Aljunied to the WP and would wake up its idea, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I'm sad and disappointed for the current state of what once was the best political party in Singapore, for the political party that made people the success it is today, and for the state of the media in Singapore. Sure life will return to normal after 7 May, but what is normal? Will it really stay the same? What will happen in the next 5 years, which will propel the events of the next GE?
Damn it I have a 60% exam in 3 hours, I shall be going away now. Haha.
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The only fear I have got is if the PAP makes a clean sweep of everything again. I think that will disenfranchise all the voices who want to be heard, and draw the rift between the silent majority and vocal minority even more. Also, have you seen the way the PAP has been insulting the electorate and the opposition? The New Paper outright fabricated a story on Chee Soon Juan and the SDP rally a couple of days ago, and they're facing a huge backlash from online now. The only problem is that nobody knows how many people are getting this balanced view. Netizens will always be loud and crazy but everybody else who isn't on the Internet is going to take TNP's views as truth. That's terrifying.
There are people who also disagree that we should keep encouraging foreigners to come, because policies don't take care of Singaporeans enough anymore. What's the point of maintaining our own country for others to come to if we don't get classed first?
I love Singapore, I really do, and that's why my heart aches for it. I thought in 2006 that the PAP would be afraid by the fact that they nearly lost Aljunied to the WP and would wake up its idea, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I'm sad and disappointed for the current state of what once was the best political party in Singapore, for the political party that made people the success it is today, and for the state of the media in Singapore. Sure life will return to normal after 7 May, but what is normal? Will it really stay the same? What will happen in the next 5 years, which will propel the events of the next GE?
Damn it I have a 60% exam in 3 hours, I shall be going away now. Haha.