I refer to the news report ‘Yeo: Beware the slippery slope of protectionism’ (TODAY, 12th November 2009)
It is most glaring when our leaders understood the dangers of increasing protectionism and the importance of trade liberalization, whilst ignoring the dangers of PAP hegemony and dismissing the need of the political opposition in the political defense in Singapore.
There is definitely a need for fellow Singaporeans to resist PAP hegemony or it may certainly lead to a possibly dire situation for Singapore in future. Perpetuating PAP hegemony without building up credible check & balance mechanisms in Singapore’s Parliament is definitely one such slippery slope and if we are not careful, before we know it, Singaporeans will be in a dire situation.
So what are the measures to prevent political hegemony from becoming a potential time bomb for Singapore? Singaporeans must therefore ‘keep pushing forward the political liberalization agenda’ by voting in credible opposition members into parliament and not be enticed by the obvious PAP hegemonic-perpetuation strategy via the schemes’ expansion of non-constituency members of parliament & nominated members of parliament.
Therefore politics is an area if Singaporeans do not move forward, we are likely to lose balance and be lesser off for the lack of a credible political defense. In 1959 the late David Marshall, ex-Chief Minister of Singapore and Founding Chairman of the Workers’ Party underlined this importance when he said the following in a rally speech:
"The duty of an Opposition is to act with vigour to guiding and criticizing with integrity the conduct of the government, to make heard the voices of the minority without fear so that the majority, drunk with their new found power, should not abuse that power, should not ride rough-shod over the people in a drunken orgy of dictatorship"
The Workers’ Party has been on stand by over the decades. It is certainly prepared and in position to discharge this duty. So what are you waiting for? Join WP today and discharge your duty as a patriotic citizen of Singapore!
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Yeo: Beware the slippery slope of protectionism (TODAY, 12th November 2009)
