Have Singaporeans gone bonkers?
Posted: August 18, 2011 Filed under: Politics, Singapore This Morning Leave a comment »A group of disenchanted individuals have banded together to organise “Cook a pot of curry day”. On the surface, they’re celebrating multiculturalism, but the real reason is to show the “marauding” PRCs whose turf they’re treading on. Argue with the organisers and you’re automatically branded a traitor.
The same extremism runs deep in the Presidential Elections. Never before has our society been so divided. If you thought the healing would begin after the General Elections, think again. For one group, everything the PAP does is wrong. Every PAP candidate is tainted by association. Meanwhile, PAP supporters have taken the moral high ground, expressing disappointment with the heckling of the opposition party supporters.
I’ve never been a PAP supporter, but neither am I blind to the fanaticism of some Opposition supporters. I’ve had friends trying to foist their choice of Presidential candidates on me on Facebook, thus proving themselves to be as fascist as the very authoritarian regime they despise.
I don’t trust any of the current four Presidential candidates. If Chen Show Mao were standing, it would be a different story.
What I trust are my instincts – that somehow we are hurtling down the slippery slope of partisan politics. I’m not saying hand our country to the PAP on a silver platter. I’m not saying a one-Party system’s the best. All I’m saying is these are troubling times indeed. Both sides have to back down – PAP, from its condescending know-it-all stance; Opposition supporters, from their stubborn resistance to all things PAP.
Who genuinely cares about Singapore?
