Do you think this makes more sense -making more efforts to create conditions of economic union one day as spoken of by Chiam in reply to PM's challenging WP to produce FTAs.
Even forumers are able to come up with idea like Economic Union with Malaysia and people-to-people close relationship as the way out of the current spat between leaders.
Until we examine more options, we cannot see what we miss. This ability to open up to more ideas and choices has not been shown by the current top-down autocracy. That is the current problem and has been the most serious problem for many years. It would seem that the party in power is controlled by one man and once there is one option, no other option is allowed to exist.
This lack of option in studying our economic restructuring and foreign relations and foreign investments has affected the quality and efficiency of our government. If this control of top management is not open up and changed to allow the whole team to help out and decide, there will be more problems and Singapore may find it difficult to survive.
Hence, if there is any sense in election, it is necessary to consider change and who can change than having more choices and more choices mean not just listening to the old tune about which candidate is better etc but choice.
Surely we do not want to keep listening to oneold tune and only FTA one-option. If there is no change to the old policies and old politics we will no doubt dig our own grave or come to see our own talented citizens leaving this place.
This will be the most heavy price to pay for supporting control and arrogance.