I am nuts

Some just don't get it

With the elections drawing closer, its kinda funny in a way to see the ruling party and the various government departments falling over themselves in trying to discredit the opposition. The idea of pseudo-opposition PAP MP, HDB trying to justify why opposition wards are not granted permission to upgrade lifts in estate, criticism of WP manifesto etc. It just reeks of a typical singaporean trait. Kiasuism.

I simply do not understand why the PAP needs to be so kiasu. So what if the opposition holds 2 or more seats in the parliament? Theres a total of 84 seats, 2 oppositions would make up a neligable 2.38% which could hardly make a difference when it comes to the passing of bills especially with the fact that PAP members can't vote according to their conscience anyway.

Their repeated bashing of oppositions, sometimes to the point of a bully taunting a kid in the playground, is really starting to put me off. The threat of non-upgrading to the estate, which is funded by our own money, is simply sickening. Imagine this happening in a private property sector. A property developer build 10 blocks of flats and touts them as a premium, low cost and highly subsidised flats. Each block will have a leader to represent them at the estate committee. Monthly conservation fees are collected from all residents, yet upgrades to the estate are done to only 8 blocks, leaving 2 blocks on their own, because the funds were not made available to the 2 leaders of the blocks because they tend to disagree with the other leaders on certain issues. Instead, the money collected from the 2 blocks are used to subsidise the other 8 blocks, and the committee tells you that you can only have upgrading when you replace the 2 leaders. But it so happens that these 2 leaders of the block are more capable than many of the other leaders of the 8 blocks and the people know it and thus would like to keep them to represent the blocks. The residents of these 2 blocks will probably bring the issue up to court for the unfair treatment they received, but then, does residents of opposition wards have this ability? Or as CSJ would like to lead us to believe, is the judiciary system fair and open to dissentient?

I also cannot stand the fact that the ruling party keeps asking the opposition to 'be like us'. What is the point of that then? The whole idea of an opposition is to give a different view, a different perception. If the opposition is supposed to mimic the ruling party, might as well go and set up a second party called PAP v2 or PAP reserve and as them to compete. Kaoz.

For example, when they are revealing their new faces recently, they keep asking the opposition to reveal their candidates too, for 'transparency' and 'opening them up for public scrutiny'. Hell, why should the opposition do that just because you are doing it? When they release their manifesto and you openly criticised it, even implying that some points were 'copied'. Yet when request to open up their own manifesto for scrutiny, the cocky reply was that they when do so when they feel the time is right. Arrogance, fueled no less by the power they hold in their hands. Power, that if left unchecked, may well bring down the system in a couple of generations...

posted by Nutcracker @ 4:24 pm