Dr Chee, Dr Chee ... now I know why you failed to get yourself elected in the past 30 years.
You only get to speak once every 5 years, 9 days leading to the voting, and even if you are able to hold a rally everyday for all 9 days, your personal airtime is about 45 minutes per day. Yet, you are wasting precious time biting every bait thrown at you by the incumbent. The incumbent has more than 90 members, and if each member throws a bait at you, are you going to swallow every bait?
That you "abandoned" Bukit Batok is a non-issue. Everybody knows the boundary was redrawn at the last minute and Bukit Batok had simply disappeared. What is there to abandon when it's no longer in existence? Look at how much time you spent engaging on such a non-issue. These are strawmen put up by your opponent to exhaust your arsenal of arrows. It was a tactic put into good use by 諸葛亮。
When you engage an issue raised by the incumbent, you are allowing the incumbent to lead a topic, and rest assured they will have you busy engaging on issues that are not detrimental to them. Why do they do that? They don't want you to talk about Ridout, Iswaran, COE, BTO etc. They want to exhaust your airtime on issues that are not important, and not relevant.
And then you like to preach about how an election should be fought and how you would not engage in gutter politics. Hello ? This is politics. Keep the virtue signalling until you have won the ticket to enter Parliament. You want to be a good man and preach about virtues, go be a pastor. LKY didn't build Singapore by being a virtuous man. You need to be as wise as a serpent.
And if you lose because you are virtuous, you end up as a 悲劇英雄 (tragic hero). And you have been a 悲劇英雄 for the past 30 years all this while. Still not enough? It's time you stopped being one.
You have to turn the tables and start leading the topics. It's called 主導話語權．Make the incumbent in Sembawang West answer your questions from national issues to local issues. As a neuropsychologist and a senior politician, your knowledge is surely better than a helicopter pilot. No ? Well, we will never know if you keep taking questions from OYK and not putting questions to the incumbent in Sembawang. Now you see ? OYK is a better politician than you. By raising inconsequential issues, he has been successful in keeping you busy protecting "your ego" and giving you ample opportunities to showcase your virtues. OYK has succeeded in shielding his colleague from possible attacks by you.
You only get to speak once every 5 years, 9 days leading to the voting, and even if you are able to hold a rally everyday for all 9 days, your personal airtime is about 45 minutes per day. Yet, you are wasting precious time biting every bait thrown at you by the incumbent. The incumbent has more than 90 members, and if each member throws a bait at you, are you going to swallow every bait?
That you "abandoned" Bukit Batok is a non-issue. Everybody knows the boundary was redrawn at the last minute and Bukit Batok had simply disappeared. What is there to abandon when it's no longer in existence? Look at how much time you spent engaging on such a non-issue. These are strawmen put up by your opponent to exhaust your arsenal of arrows. It was a tactic put into good use by 諸葛亮。
When you engage an issue raised by the incumbent, you are allowing the incumbent to lead a topic, and rest assured they will have you busy engaging on issues that are not detrimental to them. Why do they do that? They don't want you to talk about Ridout, Iswaran, COE, BTO etc. They want to exhaust your airtime on issues that are not important, and not relevant.
And then you like to preach about how an election should be fought and how you would not engage in gutter politics. Hello ? This is politics. Keep the virtue signalling until you have won the ticket to enter Parliament. You want to be a good man and preach about virtues, go be a pastor. LKY didn't build Singapore by being a virtuous man. You need to be as wise as a serpent.
And if you lose because you are virtuous, you end up as a 悲劇英雄 (tragic hero). And you have been a 悲劇英雄 for the past 30 years all this while. Still not enough? It's time you stopped being one.
You have to turn the tables and start leading the topics. It's called 主導話語權．Make the incumbent in Sembawang West answer your questions from national issues to local issues. As a neuropsychologist and a senior politician, your knowledge is surely better than a helicopter pilot. No ? Well, we will never know if you keep taking questions from OYK and not putting questions to the incumbent in Sembawang. Now you see ? OYK is a better politician than you. By raising inconsequential issues, he has been successful in keeping you busy protecting "your ego" and giving you ample opportunities to showcase your virtues. OYK has succeeded in shielding his colleague from possible attacks by you.
