Greta75 -> RE: The Nazi Leads the GOP Polls (12/8/2015 7:58:39 AM)
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Singapore went the route of Lee Kuan Yew's 'benevolent dictatorship' while Japan went a more democratic route to achieve that progress. Japanese people were more educated and advance than us, even during world war 2. While Japan was busy attacking the rest of Asia, they still believed in education, people within Japan were not backwards uneducated folks at all. I mean they invaded Singapore and instilled Japanese education to Singaporeans. They always cared about education. To say we started at the same level is totally not the same. Singapore had serious uneducated issues. I don't think the British people when they were here put alot of focus on educating the locals at all. Lots of language barriers too. Before English was made compulsory first language, everybody just spoke their own languages and communication was a problem with no common language to bond them together. Infact, I felt like the British occupancy had like no plan for progress in our country at all and wanted to keep the locals uneducated and backwards to their benefit. English being the bridging language was one of LKY great ideas by the way! There were alot of racial riots and tensions, probably also due to language barriers. Japan really didn't have half of the problems we have. They were one united country. We were one big mess, racially, internally, we were fighting against each other constantly. And whole land devastated but as far as I know, Japanese has alot of agriculture as they rebuilt! And we pay stupid amounts of money for even their melons. One Japanese melon cost like $100. Kobe Beef, highly sort after. And Japanese rice! Always fantastic! And we can't sustain our agriculture because we have no land. Land is a HUGE natural resource by itself. They definitely had it better than us in many areas. Our dictatorship was necessary because you are dealing with uneducated people who are not educated enough to make educated decisions. It was as simple as that. Countries like Philippines and Indonesia and even Malaysia lack progress as fast as us, despite being around longer than us, because they have democracy and not enough educated voting. My Filipino friend tells me in an Filipino election, it's not uncommon for politicians to visit villages and just throw money in the air, to win their votes, and that's legal. Guess who uneducated people are gonna vote for? And LKY did win an election after all by merit. He started out as a minor opposition. It was after his win, he went all Nazi on all oppositions to ensure he stays. But I am glad he did, as Singapore when he first took office, to now, more good than bad has happened. That's all I can say. And the man is so bloody humble that, Singaporeans are protesting about his home being torn down for other development, we want it preserve for historical value, but he insist no special treatment to be given to his home, just tear it down, if needed to rebuilt a taller building in that area. And anybody who visited the home of this man is shock at how spartan he lives and how old and crumbly everything in his home was. He has all the riches but, lives like a pauper. All he cared about was devoting his life to our country and improving it.
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