What you believe and feel are perfectly normal for anyone in your age group. After all it was the University youths that led to the demise of dictators in Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and may other countries. There is fire in bellies and the bullshit from those in power will not be tolerated. That is why ISD camps in all tertiary institutions in Singapore and converts many of the student population to informants in a big way.
But as you go thru life, you realise that there is many ways to skin cat. When Chee came onto the scene, people thought naturally he was a saviour but unfortunately he did not have the political acumen or the skills to engage in politics. Politics is not human rights.
PAP has the entire civil service at its beck and call. Is it not a surprise that Div 1 Civil servants and above are the world best paid civil servants. They have PA controlling all the grassroots organisations including hawker, taxi , clan associations including RCs. They have NTUC controlling all the unions. It is formidable enemy. If you do not have the numbers, you will not make it.
You are either shout and shout, talk big to impress the newbies or you work quietly and start building your voter base. WP JBJ was a one man show and he did shout and shout. To his credit he opened the gate and gave us hope but he failed miserably in parliament getting his facts wrong. Even Wong Kan Seng, the least educated in Cabinet minister got the better of him. The only other person that Wong Kan Seng got the better of was the then Journalist Cherian George.
LTK is shrewd. He does not give the PAP or the old man any purchase to grab his balls. He is killing them with his milk of kindness. Mind you that they took on a GRC and wiped out a senior cabinet who was better respected than his colleagues, and two ministers of state and both were credible.
At the end of the day, its the seats at hand counts and not how loud or how long you shout.
As you grow older, you know that not all Whiskeys are not the same and Black Label should be in the Bin despite you seeing it everywhere. A Cab Sav is way ahead of a Merlot.
I think SDP attracts the Young like myself is because they are aggreesive, SDP agenda seems to be for Human Rights... And i guess many follow them for this reasons.. I dont really know much about SDP, but i do read their Articles from time to time and have seen DR.Chee protest/videos many time.. I see him as a person who puts fear aside to fight the Mighty Establishment.. On W.P i guess their fight is more on Foreign workers etc... But the problem lies with W.p for not doing much.. I have yet to see them pushing for policy changes but only harping on what the ground is feeling/echoing, I see that policies were tweaked with regards to public noise on/off line when things like jobs,space and housing directly effected the people.(The noise was already Loud b4 W.p introduced their candidates/G.r.c they are contesting in) I have yet to see the W.p aggressively challenging the Establishment.. Sylvia seem to be a nice women but has she done anything so far, Didnt she turn a blind eye on Pap bullying tactics and why is W.P well loved by the PAP? At the moment it seems to me like W.p is developing their Brand by Showing up in Events and riding on the glory of having 5 + 1 members in parliament.
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