Oh I wholeheartedly agree with you. However, I get the impression that lots of S'poreans still have this irrational "fear" even well educated folk. It appears to have insidiously seeped into our culture propagated by PAP.
I know the older folks use to talk about it but have not heard it for a very long time until Wong Kan Seng raised it recently. I know the younger generation have no idea what you are talking when this is mentioned.
Frankly have not heard of it since Anson By Elections. I do recall after JBJ's victory, people were anticipating retaliation of individual voters but that was understandable at that time.
I do also recall that old man after one election actually said on TV at the counting centre that they are going to "analyse" the voters which set of tongues wagging. That was years ago.
Frankly, when I raise this to read the ground, I get laughters without exception.
However when contesting election is raised, you can see the fear and the shock and first comment is "are you mad", followed by "they will destroy you"
Maybe we are mixing up the two. I do however agree that we are materialstic aned chose the PAP to avoid HDB prices and stock market plunging but that is a different set of fear.
