Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Singapore: The World's Only Successful Dictatorship?" video.
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@_TeaMaster No, Singapore uses some variation of first past the post I assume?
My point though wasn't about Singapore, it was that he showed factually wrong information in the video when he used Norway as a example.
The Labor party of Norway in the election year he picked losing the election with the most votes and as the biggest party in parliament with the most representatives because they couldn't come up with a viable combination of parties willing to support a cabinet where they took part.
My comment did not in any way, shape or form even refer to the mess that is Singapores political system...
The point with democracy is not to get the most qualified, or best or whatever people into power.
It's to ensure that the people who are have a consensus backing them and have legitimacy.
Basically its goal is to ensure that everyone feel that while they might not agree with everything being done that at least they have influence on their own lives and that they do not feel like they need to turn to violence to be heard.
In Singapore there's no way of knowing how many people are seriously upset about the state of affairs, living in fear, have serious issues that needs to be resolved, or solutions to major problems that Singapore as a nation has.
Because it's not a real democracy.
Singapore is well run in many ways, but the way it achieved that state is still fucked up beyond belief.
That's my honest opinion.
But I decided not to share it in a separate comment earlier to try to be polite, instead just commenting on the poor choice of example used in the video to contrast against Singapore. But you decided to make that completely off topic comment of yours, so you're welcome.
He could have used our 2001 election instead where the prime minister was from a party with 12,4% of the voters behind them and 22 seats in our 165 seat parliament at the time. Or even the election he did choose but picking the party of our prime minister instead of just the biggest party.
Now, if you're not interested in politics in Norway no one is forcing your hand to read any of this.
No one was forcing you to read my original post either.
But you made the choice to do so, and you made a comment that was 100% irrelevant to the topic of my comment.
Completely missing what I was trying to say.
So you're welcome.
Enjoy reading all of this.
All you achieved was pissing me off by being super rude.
So now I feel no obligation to have any respect for you at all any more.
Hence the above post.
If I had to choose between a well run authoritarian goverment like Sinagpore or arguably China or a poorly run Democracy like the US, Argentina etc I'd personally pick the later, despite how much harder my life would be.
No one is expecting perfection, Taiwan is the only half way decent democracy in the whole region, so I'm not expecting the ruling party in Singapore to play entierly fair.
If Americans can gerrymander then so can they.
But they're not even holding up the pretense and they're using violence and essentially forcing the voters hands instead of pulling the strings in the background like a normal flawed democracy.
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