Hah - "Incorruptible Leadership" ranks right up there with things like the Atkins Diet, White Supremacy and the Final Solution.

The fact is simple, that Singapore will die one day. Not die in the sense of not living, but die in the sense of fading away into oblivion, no longer splashed over the headlines but brought up occasionally in the back page for some cheap laughs over chewing gum and oral sex. A Southeast- Asian French Guinea - people've heard of it, but they know nothing else but the fact that it's somewhere in China.

A country can die in three ways: Politically or economically. To die politically, it can degenerate into civil strife, or be crushed by an oppressive totalitarian government, or be conquered. The first one seems unlikely given the apathy these days, the third is impossible because of its sheer worthlessness, but the second is extremely probable.

The PAP has absolute control over Singapore, let's not deny that. The Cabinet and Parliament consist of an incredible number of PAP men. They have control over the economy through Temasek Holdings, headed by the PM's wife. It is a fact that absolute power corrupts absolutely, that no one-party government has ever maintained absolute incorruptibility, no matter how noble its objectives may have been.

The system works now not because of its stability and robustness, but because we have been fortunate enough to have good leaders to guide us through our growing years. There is absolutely nothing we can do if the PAP goes rogue, given the sheer lack of alternatives. "All that we have worked for will be lost", isn't that what they always like to say?





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