Dear Jedi,
My comment is not meant for you but aimed at others. My apology if I got it wrongly understood.
Most of the time, people are influenced by those surrounding them. Of course, there will be some who will come with honey coated mouth to give "poisonous advice".
Put it simply, I am not even CEC member right now, it doesn't matter who I support. Nor am I in the position to "give advice". The Party stated that it will not make any official stance and individual members can support their preferred candidates on their own personal capacity. I think that is good as the party would respect each individual member's right to support their own preferred candidates. Of course, people would view it otherwise but NSP is not the only party with members supporting different candidates.
NSP is run quite differently from other parties like WP. It is run based on democratic principles, paying due respect to the rights of individual members. I would not speculate what will happen if we have people voted into parliament but there will be agreement on how to run a campaign. The Party manifesto is the basic guidelines on what we believe in as a Party and we should not contradict that. Other than that, it is NUTS.
In other countries, it is common for parliamentarians or Congress men to hold different views and vote differently from party lines. The core beliefs may be there but variant of views on specific issues are common as well.
Personally, I have thought through very carefully why I should support TKL and why not TJS. Once such decision is made, I won't be endorsing nor taking photo shots with some other candidates. It is a matter of principle to me.
Admittedly, there is an urgent need of full integration of members from the ex-RP members with current old members to gel them together but I do not think we should curtail the freedom of expression and thoughts by individual members.
I am sitting quite comfortably on top of some hill (not really high mountain) in HK and watching things happening around the world, not just Singapore. Though much personal sacrifices have been made to NSP in the past but I would take it easy from now, in terms of NSP matters. I wouldn't lose much sleep over it because there are more important things and issues for me to tackle now, while NSP has a new SG now. I won't even think of going back to NSP be SG again because I have realized that there are more interesting and meaningful things to do out here!
If you have dealt with teenagers before, you would know that sometimes, the best thing to do is not to give any advice to them nor lecture them in any ways. Sometimes, the best way is to let them experience the fall or failure in a measured way so that they would learn better.
Goh Meng Seng
