Okay. Today’s hot topic: The Singapore General Elections.
Why? Because, although I am not of the voting age, I feel like I still have a right to express my opinion about this year’s elections.
Plus, I’m a little bored.
SO ANYWAY…
As everyone knows, this year’s elections are crazily hot. As my dad so eloquently said just now, “We’ve never had to have a ‘cooling-off day’ before.”
Honestly, I could say a lot of things. About both the PAP and the opposition. However, I’ll skip the lengthy debates of which you can easily read elsewhere and come to the bottom line: The PAP should still be the reigning party.
Change is good. (Well, most of the time.) No one likes monotony. (‘Cept for a ‘blessed’ few..) But even the most radical person will tell you that too much change will only bring about anarchy.
Case in point: Hitler.
Another case in point: Stalin.
Okay. Fine. It’s not VERY fair to compare this situation with Communism or Fascism.
Let’s try something else, then. Let’s say you eat rice with fish and vegetables everyday for about… a month or two. Then one day, switch to eating only ice-cream. Your body will protest so much, you’ll see picket signs coming out your butt.
Okay. I need a point here. Basically, what I’m trying to say is, although the PAP has been getting a little complacent over the years, they’re still horribly stable as a block. Sure, it’s great to have a bit more opposition come in to ‘even out the playing field’, so to speak, but at the end of the day, I dread to think what will become of Singapore if the PAP gets completely uprooted at the end of this weekend.
A lot of new voters come from Generation X (those born in the 80s) and well, Generations X and Y have always been about ‘what’s new?’. Think about it. In only a decade, the number of new models of cell phones, computers, televisions, and games have been increasing on an exponential curve. The internet spreads news faster than you can finish this sentence, and the number of ways to express oneself has increased along with the number of types of new media.
People my age are obsessed with what’s ‘up-and-coming’ and everything more than a month old is considered passé. So, you bring in an upcoming election, throw in the ‘fuddy-duddy old men’ of the PAP, toss in some new ‘fresh ideas' and ‘fault-picking’ from the opposition, and well, you see the results on Facebook and Twitter.
And of course, it’s ALWAYS fun to vote for the ‘underdogs’.
What about me? Well, honestly, I don’t know if I’m pro-PAP or pro-opposition. I guess, as a pragmatist, I believe in voting for the party that can and will do stuff. And well, I’m not that eloquent in politics yet, so I won’t pretend that I know everything about what’s been happening.
So, there you go. That’s basically my take on the whole GE.
In other news, I drank two cans of red bull today because I wanted to get hyped up to go running. But then I got lazy. Someone say ‘ironic’.
