The Last Nail in the Coffin for True Blue Singaporeans

And here it is, the final nail in the coffin for true blue Singaporeans. Over the weekend, the ruling party, the People’s Action Party (PAP), defeated the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) in the Bukit Batok by-election with 61.21% of the votes. Although not wholly unexpected, the result was nevertheless very disappointing.

Making the defeat harder to stomach was the fact that the SDP actually stood a very good chance of winning – the people had the assurance that the ruling party will remain in power regardless of the result, many of them are unhappy with many of the Government’s policies and the PAP candidate was inarticulate and ineffectual – he could not speak without putting a foot in his mouth. Here was a golden chance to make their displeasure seen and heard and 61% of the people blew it. Brainwashed beyond redemption, they showed their ignorance, myopia, cowardice, selfishness, and greed at the ballot box.

• ignorance - of current affairs and who was really working in their best interests.

• myopia - they are not just voting for themselves but for the future of their children and grandchildren as well. 

• cowardice - fear of being found out that they had voted for the opposition, fear of the unknown, fear of changing the status quo. 

• selfishness - not in my backyard syndrome. They want a better life but want someone else to undertake the risks involved and to do the hard work. A vote is needed for the opposition to do this? Let someone else vote for them. 

• greed - they fell for the upgrading carrot/threat, they want more amenities in their estate for more convenience and also for boosting the value of their properties. 

What’s more, the SDP candidate was going to be going to be working at his MP job full-time if he got elected (the PAP candidate was going to be working at it part-time) and he could be counted on to speak up in Parliament for Singaporeans (the PAP candidate had been silent as a mouse all of these years he had been elected, if he had really wanted to speak up for the people, he would have done so a long time ago).

Despite all of these, 61% of the voters in Bukit Batok voted for the PAP. They must be very pleased; they got themselves a part-time MP and a yes-man who works only for his boss. Little do they know that they are in trouble; this man is not going to speak up for them when they lose their jobs to foreigners, when their children cannot get into local universities (while the places are given to foreigners), or when they run into financial difficulties and their money is locked up in the Government pension fund. Neither is he going to speak up against the unsustainable increase in the population, ever increasing taxes, or the high cost of living. They are like frogs in a pot with water that is coming to a boil and they do not even know it. Those who see the boiling water might even think that this is ultimately for their own good.

For those who sneer at North Korea, laughing at how its citizens exalt their leaders while being oppressed, the joke’s on them as they do not realise that they are actually living in another version of it. They are actually trapped in a modern form of slavery as the Government has artificially raised the cost of living on one hand while depressed the wages of Singaporean workers through the import of cheap foreign labour on the other. Many Singaporeans will ultimately die without any assets to their name or to leave to their children.

Unfortunately for the 30% of Singaporeans that have wised up to what is really happening in Singapore Inc, the support of these daft Singaporeans and newly minted citizens is going to ensure that the ruling party is going to stay in power for a long, long time.