RafflesTiger said:
Hi friend, you are free to disagree... But WP is really "soft" compared to DAP... Or DPP... My point is the same, the electorate will never go full out to support WP in their present form and composition... Just to be opposition and get a few seats, not a problem.. But anything more, I doubt
many people say political inclination is driven more by hatred than love... It seems true....
What has DAP and DPP to do with Singapore? First we talk of ghost and renegades who will never come back or, even if they do, are too old to do anything except to write memoirs perhaps.
Now we are even talking about foreign parties. DAP I have no comments in their fight for minority representation. For DPP, let's say just leave the Taiwanese to themselves. Their politics is too messy for us to take sides on, let alone blandish them as a model for imitation.
I tend to agree with Kingrant that looking at one incident and making conclusion on a person's entire philosophy is stretching imagination a bit (my interpretation, not Kingrant's). If you ask me, JBJ had already lost his rudder and forgotten his mission and led a personal crusade against unfair persecution against him. Left alone, with or without LTK's help there would not be any WP today.
People of that generation, Francis Seow included lived in a different world from today. They got hounded like nothing we see today. The Old Man was in his most formidable domination. The key goal of that day was to fight against that authority, not necessarily seizing power, but more to frustrate and to deny satisfaction. Anyone who did not think the same way was condemned as not worthy as the opposition.
But things have changed much and although the political system is still stacked against alternative voices, there is that sliver of hope that the electorate has matured enough to make that domination less absolute and in fact more vulnerable. Looking at the results, the WP of today, while not perfect and have several kinks to iron out, seems to have made a right evolutionary turn and is actually dreaming of an alternative govt, not immediately but in some foreseeable future.
The question is whether the other opposition parties can also make this evolutionary progression or stay mired in an ideological struggle. I think if sufficient opposition parties can make this change, there is prospect for a truly coalition government consisting of only opposition parties. Otherwise, even if the PAP loses its majority, the likely outcome is for the PAP to form the coalition government with one or more of the other parties in it.
