I will finally get to cast my vote for the first time this year. Totes feeling like a real responsible adult now haha but eh I still have lecture on Friday.
So these few days I've been listening/watching quite a number of rallies and I guess the gist is basically this - PAP is not perfect but majority of the opposition parties are just stating many problems (that has always been apparent to all) but are not coming up with solutions.
When we vote, we are voting for a voice in the Parliament, and the majority of the seats attained by one party would then form the Government. (Imagine an entire Government ran by opposition members, Singapore siao liao I tell you) Also, the Parliament 'design' laws, not the Government. (See here: https://www.parliament.gov.sg/what-we-do)
Yes some opposition parties are pretty good (and some are just nationwide jokes), but they may not necessarily be contesting at your constituency. So when we vote, we vote for the voice that will represent your constituency in the Parliament. Don't just vote cause you're unhappy with certain issues. If the opposition at your constituency is weak and if they win a seat, it'll in turn be disastrous.
Then it brings me to my next point which is, all these years we've had opposition parties attaining a few seats in the Parliament. They promised many things but if people are still unhappy about X things, then the opposition parties merely just secured a seat but are not fulfilling their promises regarding solving X problems too, no? Are they just happy being elected after inciting much feels in their supporters? Or are they merely opposing for the sake of opposing?
Like what YL said, Mr Lee made one of the best speeches ever. For me, what hit home was the paragraph along the lines of "Instead of voting more opposition parties to make PAP work harder, we need to vote more PAP members to make the opposition parties work harder." I feel that some opposition parties are just comfortable with the fact that they have secured a seat and then not walking the talk.
Many have said their five cents worth on social media, and this is mine. While others are looking at this with the micro perspective, I just want Singapore to constantly be better as a nation and as we continuously make our mark in the global platform. I'm living a comfortable life and I'm extremely grateful for how things have been thus far.
One more day of rallies and then it's cooling-off day. Vote wisely my fellow Singaporeans.
And as what Mr Lee Kuan Yew stated in the video above (click on the video if you haven't seen it), "Whoever governs Singapore, must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards, this is your life and mine."
