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16-03-2015, 05:40 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Were it that the PAP is as white as snow, such that it has earned the right to judge, then it could measure others against themselves and let the results speak for themselves. If you aren't that white then you only help others see how imperfect you are magnified many times. What for?
Politics here is heading down the path of cynicism. More and more voters will lose respect for politicians. The people cannot be rallied. Hard but right decisions can no longer be taken because trust is lost. You have to be living on another planet not to notice that trust is already eroding. Even the office of President is less well regarded today.
Voting is compulsory here. If it wasn't I bet voter turnout would decline mirroring elsewhere. We are becoming another also run, which we know must mean the death knell for us.
So what if at the end of the day the PAP won? It can only be a Pyrrhic victory. Voters will make your life very difficult for the next term. Even internally the civil service leadership would lose respect for you even as rank and file civil servants find it more testy to serve customers.
As we become more cynical, the only guys who would find that it make sense to serve must be the viler ones too. Big time corruption is next. In fact there is too much to steal that theft can be hidden for a long time.
A window exists for us to reverse the trend. It is still open but for how long?
I wish the PAP would fight more honorably. Their MPs would do their homework. Ministers should be honest with how they use facts and statistics. But they never take responsibility any more. If something don't work they scold us but this option is quickly disappearing. Now we will make them regret that if they try.
How they have fallen from their high perch like the emperor without clothes reasoned that they must be wearing invisible and much more beautiful ones!
http://blogging4myself.blogspot.sg/2...-cynicism.html (http://blogging4myself.blogspot.sg/2015/03/fixing-opposition-path-to-cynicism.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?202754-Fixing-the-opposition-The-Path-to-Cynicism&goto=newpost).
Were it that the PAP is as white as snow, such that it has earned the right to judge, then it could measure others against themselves and let the results speak for themselves. If you aren't that white then you only help others see how imperfect you are magnified many times. What for?
Politics here is heading down the path of cynicism. More and more voters will lose respect for politicians. The people cannot be rallied. Hard but right decisions can no longer be taken because trust is lost. You have to be living on another planet not to notice that trust is already eroding. Even the office of President is less well regarded today.
Voting is compulsory here. If it wasn't I bet voter turnout would decline mirroring elsewhere. We are becoming another also run, which we know must mean the death knell for us.
So what if at the end of the day the PAP won? It can only be a Pyrrhic victory. Voters will make your life very difficult for the next term. Even internally the civil service leadership would lose respect for you even as rank and file civil servants find it more testy to serve customers.
As we become more cynical, the only guys who would find that it make sense to serve must be the viler ones too. Big time corruption is next. In fact there is too much to steal that theft can be hidden for a long time.
A window exists for us to reverse the trend. It is still open but for how long?
I wish the PAP would fight more honorably. Their MPs would do their homework. Ministers should be honest with how they use facts and statistics. But they never take responsibility any more. If something don't work they scold us but this option is quickly disappearing. Now we will make them regret that if they try.
How they have fallen from their high perch like the emperor without clothes reasoned that they must be wearing invisible and much more beautiful ones!
http://blogging4myself.blogspot.sg/2...-cynicism.html (http://blogging4myself.blogspot.sg/2015/03/fixing-opposition-path-to-cynicism.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?202754-Fixing-the-opposition-The-Path-to-Cynicism&goto=newpost).