singaporean democracy.... hah... what a joke....
Mr. LEE Hsien Loong... the new leader of a democratic state.... erm... correct me if i'm wrong... but i don't remember the people electing him.... hrm... maybe its my memory...


NOT!!!


democracy:: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
by definition of merriam-webster dictionary

the singaporean method of election of the prime minister is through selection of the members of parliment(which doesn't exactly make up the majority of the population) and in the case of Mr. Lee a letter of recommendation from the former-Prime minister Goh Chok Tong.... so where did the "government by the people" part come into the picture....

although it is true that we have a say in who can become a member of parliment, we do not have a say in who they assume to be our choice of prime minister.... isn't it strange that the most established, better financed, seemingly invincible party always comes out tops.... there is no room for smaller parties to come into singaporean politics and they wonder why fewer singaporeans want to join politics.... look at what happened to the last few singaporeans who decided to oppose the ruling party... they went bankrupt and had to leave the country into asylum in malaysia.... the msg that they are sending is: "it's my way, or the north-south highway..."

now with that kind of governance the only way that you're going to get anywhere in singapore politics is if you become a democractic socialist or if you happen to have the surname LEE....

it's true that systems of election like the american electorial process is hard to implement for the inherent problem that singapore has... a small population... the small voting pool means that results may vary and the true average of the opinions of the singaporean people may not be accurately and precisely measured.... and the problem of having to change singapore's constitution makes it even more difficult to implement... but there has to be a way for more singaporeans to become more active in the way that their home is being ruled...

the problem here is not that singaporean do not want to help improve their society by going into politics but the fact that they can't when the government is as rigid as it is now.....

politics is a distorted unclear environment where one is governed by what other people think of you... but it has become a inseparable part of modern life....

gotta bear with it...