Hopeful

2 more days.  After trolling FB for days, lapping up all kinds of postings, I am still hopeful that the results on Friday will prove that a majority of Singaporeans is good and sensible people.  I am hopeful that we are nothing like the social media population that behave like monsters and animals.

I see the passion in many friends, who make tremendous effort in correcting what they perceive as wrong views, very actively online.  Perhaps, they are worried that these lies may be taken as truth by the gullible readers?  Or they feel a strong sense of righteousness, that no unscrupulous politician should get away with sprouting lies?

There is suppose to be a fairly big group of rational swing-voters.  There is also a big group of non-active social media users who are either hard core government or hard core opposition supporters.  These people make their decisions based on their own experiences, and based on information gathered in the past 4 years.  They do not make decisions based on what's said in the past 2 weeks only. 

Politicians are unscrupulous by nature.  The good ones too.  They do what's necessary to get votes, and eliminate opponents.  Our beloved, late, first PM was fairly notorious in that aspect.  But, he is kind and selfless, to his country and his citizens.  It was not the purest form of democracy that helped get us to this prosperous state; it was pure luck, that we had him.   We should be grateful.  And we need to move on.

For the past 4 years, I see progress, made by good people in our government.  I also see a lot of shortcoming and flaws in this group of leaders.  It is very obvious to me that this group lacks the ability of the previous generation.  For example, what is the reason for the frequent breakdown in our train system, and the hardship felt by the ordinary citizens with the influx of foreign talents?  It is not because of the 6.9m population policy, not because of any incompetency of our current transport minister.  It is the failure of the various ministries and ministers to plan and build the infrastructure necessary to support the foreign worker policy.  I don't think this would happen during Mr. LKY's time.  During his time, finance, housing and all policies were perfectly coordinated. 

Luckily, we still have 60%, who are willing to work with the better team, and currently the only viable team.  I'm still hopeful, that the majority have the right attitude, to work hard, to work hand in hand in securing our own future. 

In any developed entertainment industry, critics are necessary; they help the actors and actresses to achieve higher level of performance.     But remember, critics can't act.

In a democratic, developed country, oppositions plays a crucial role.  History has proven, power corrupts.  We may only get lucky once.

So, how will I vote on Friday?
To put in social media language:  We need people who stir shit.  I will vote for people who can clear shit.