State of politics when MM Lee finally dies
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Just a question,but what do you think will be the state of Singapore politics when the old man finally dies?
Granted the PAP will survive his death.Institutions will endure,but people will die eventually,even you and me.How will it affect the state of politics in Singapore?
I sense that a lot of factions within the PAP which are currently keeping silent out of fear or respect of the old man will start opening up and party discipline will decrease.LHL simply does not have the oratorical ability,the hardened and sharp mind or political experience of LKY.LHL cannot and will not hold it together because I doubt he has what it takes.
But the I could be wrong....
It will also open the way for the opposition to finally make the PAP bleed somewhat.There will be less chance of defamation suits every single time someone insults the old man's ego. Of course LHL could try and copy his father in suing each and every political opponent,using the ISD to lock them up and accuse them of plotting terrorist acts or following communism.
So what's your take on it?
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Nothing much will change. As I mentioned before, lky being lky, he is formidable and will try his best to make PAP survives as long as possible or forever. Before he dies he has come out with various plans, policies, agenda to keep the PAP going after his death.
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Can LKY ever die ?
He has already said that even in his grave, he will get up to make sure everythiing continue right.
Question is will he return as a Guardian Angel, or as the Devil's Advocate ?
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as long as Singapore has no courage to trust its own citizens as in giving more rights to its own citizens, we would consistently be locked in a mentality that we are an "inferior" nation.
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Can LKY ever die ?
He has already said that even in his grave, he will get up to make sure everythiing continue right.
Question is will he return as a Guardian Angel, or as the Devil's Advocate ?
i choose the latter..never was he a guardian angel before rite? didnt he had plans for Sg to keep running 50years after his death?
i sure would love to see some smart aleck lees in the later generation to screw up lky plans.
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People's Action Party is controlled by only a small clique of people at the top.
Most party members have no influence over policy.
The ringleader is Lee Kuan Yew.
After the Lim Chin Siong debacle, Lee Kuan Yew would only recruit those who will kowtow to his dictates into the party.
Those who do not kowtow, he will never recruit, otherwise factions will appear and split the party.
...These developments precipitated an open split between Lee and Lim Chin Siong. Lim's group suspected – correctly – that Lee was up to no good in his pursuit of merger with Malaysia and they openly called for the abolition of the ISC.
In July 1961, legislative assemblymen, parliamentary/organising secretaries, and members of the PAP split from the party and formed the Barisan Sosialis. Lee's party was shaved to bare bones.
At the time, Harper writes, "there was an immense political momentum, a sense that the future lay with the Barisan Sosialis."
Even then, Lim Chin Siong never wavered in his commitment to governing Singapore in a democratic way when he wrote in a press statement that "any constitutional arrangement must not mean a setback for the people in terms of freedom and democracy."
This contrasts with the PAP's demonisation of Lim as a front for the communist out to destroy the democratic way...http://singaporedemocrat.org/articlelimchinsionghistory_part2.html
So, I think it will be hard for factions to appear in PAP after Lee Kuan Yew is dead.
I think most people in PAP are not politicians but managers, they have no passion or desire for politics, so this may bring about downfall of PAP when Lee Kuan Yew finally dies.
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PAP rise due to Lee Kuan Yew, PAP fall also due to Lee Kuan Yew.
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
I think most people in PAP are not politicians but managers, they have no passion or desire for politics, so this may bring about downfall of PAP when Lee Kuan Yew finally dies.
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PAP rise due to Lee Kuan Yew, PAP fall also due to Lee Kuan Yew.
It is time Lee Kuan Yew.
It is time.
i for one think PAP will be factious post-LKY, but what is listed by you is also a plausible scenario. fascinating thots....