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Are you two kidding? Unless there is an electorate disapproval of Pappies there wont be reforms

What type of Race representation is Singapore talking about?.. When we are Malay Muslims???

Was the chicken rice question a barometer of Singaporean-ness?

Thanks for sharing

Be careful who you serve, there are monsters who watch monsters

A convoluted acct but story is much simpler: papers struggle because they lost advertising to web; SCMP was bailed out by Jack Ma, WashPost by Bezos; SG gov bails out SPH SPH Property has told gov: u can have ur publishing monopoly back; we no longer want to subsidize it

Lower voter turn out skew the results? The worry this channel has? By this statement alone , it suggests the moderator or channel host is BIASED towards one party.

This video lacked substance not that there is no substance but its disappointing. So many degrees on the panel but so shallow or juvenile in political knowledge. All living in their comfortable bubble different from heartlanders. Hard earned Thumbs down from me

Pls dont murder me for saying the following : 1. I opine that Covid made our lives harder than ever before. So the voters who were on the fence before who had always given PAP their vote due to a lack of compelling reasons to vote for More Alternatives now stepped out of their closets, as it were, as they now have a more compelling reason to want to have more "insurance" due to a uncertain future like never before. Further, many could see that PAP was definitely gonna win due to the crisis which favors incumbents and the record social ams economic support spending . This Extreme situation Triggered an uncontrollable Ejaculation of fear in the middle voters to prevent a complete Opposition Wipeout

We must not have Change. Change is Bad. We must not rock the boat. Obey

Can NMP institution be used for Lobbyists?

Did Walid ask this 2 term NMP has she asked about the reserves during her tenure and if not why? As for me , I will never ask about the reserves because I believe everything is ok and we are in safe hands

Cherian tried to define Democracy. I want to point out why he is not totally correct. First, there is No Standardization in Political models. It can be any configuration a ruler likes. A Dictatorship can also be called a Democracy. Eg. China CCP leadership is ELECTED by the Elites. Other than the CCP, China operates as a Capitalist Socialist model. This proves my point that political model is like flipping Prata. You can flip it anyway you like. Given the truth of what political models are and have been, Cherian is Assuming he is right in defining democracy that way. He maybe living in his bubble too long and speaking to like minded minorities aka social political fanatics that blinded and clouded his thinking. And there is a lack of competition for this group of minority academic or literary Elites . I caution this small group of people not to be overconfident and be reminded that all your Theories may be wrong. No one is the Arbiter of Truth when it comes to democracy definition and certainly not Cherian or Donald or anyone for that matter. Feel free to debunk me if you can. How is that as a challenge to you?

These are better questions more out of the box : 1. Who initiated the issue relating to the WP Muslim lady Candidate during the hastings? How has this person contributed to the election results? 2. Did the non selection of Tharman as PM has any effect on the results? 3. Should Reserves size be a secret protected by a law such that no one is allowed to ask this question ever again in the name of efficient govt and National interest? 4. Supplementary question: should or have MPs voted for draw down without knowing the size? 5. Is Political correctness a form of Dishonesty? Disclaimer : I don't think so. 6. True innovation brings big changes. Should Singaporeans be pseudo innovative and import true innovation so that our voters will not bring change to status quo? 7. Who defines National Interest? Who defines the Truth? Is there an Arbiter of Truth in SG. I don't mean a Ministry of Truth lah. Of course it does not officially exist. I not even a PhD I can ask these questions

My honest view is PAP is the best. Just ask the old people of Singapore

Walid could have gone a step further by asking GRC is for Race Representation although some believe it serves more than this. How about Religious Representation considering what is the major religion in SG?

... "this is the kind of politics in singapore..." hmmmm

In short WP go with the flow

Maybe a life of comfort did not produce a Compelling reason for these academics to become politicians. Some perceive some academics as like book worms easily bullied and cow to fear. Great at theories and writings but fall short of action. If truly convinced by their own thinking they should walk the talk but language allows prata flipping to find some excuse which is so easy

China also has democracy within its CCP. Does it mean we should adopt a CCP model adapted to our context given how efficient China model is? Many Singaporeans are empathetic towards a China model. But such people subscribing to such a model Assumes the leader is incorruptible, infallible, much like a Saint

haha, need one more, i.e. Kishore to join the exiled Sg.Academia.

Excellent session. Just received my book yesterday ! :)

love this, thank you for doing this!!

A very enjoyable and especially illuminating conversation indeed. Thank you for this.

So this panel will give honest opinion right? Err....

Gd n interesting insights to the results of GE 20 n all the feedbsck frm panelist...agree tt active citizenry is impt education n what wks for the past era dont wk today cos of the social, economic n political changes of our times n i dont want a talkdown n elite system of govt but rather a more equal n compassionate n happy country, did not a world first country n the most expensive country to live in, yet without any natural resources, except 5.6 population, the only resources we hve...🤗

You people are so short memory! This is not the worst result! Please check the history of PAP GE over the past 30 years. In the year 1991, the PAP majority was 61% too and lost 4 seats. Then on there were only 40 seats contested, yet PAP only won a majority of 61%. 2020 was all contested, though lost 10 seats but their overall majority is 61.2%. It is considered quite good. Any democratic country in the world will take this as a very sounding win. Those who commented on the poor performance of the ruling party, I suggest you go and search other so-called "most liberal and democratic countries" like Australia, New Zealand, UK, and the USA, do their winning parties won such majority votes? This is a strategy of the ruling party. Look at the new Sengkang GRC, it's the combination of 2 consistencies where were consisted of major oppie voters. Why would the ruling govt know of it yet group it in 1 GRC? Look at the boundary, they are all linked up together. It just shows that the ruling party is willing to let go of a certain number of seats to the WP, let them come into parliament. Did you notice the tone of Pritam Singh when his party won? He doesn't seem overwhelmed by the winning. Because he knew the task of him is much tougher than that of his predecessor LTK. Politics is very cruel and dirty. You all really think that the ruling party does not know what they are doing? If this is so, they won't be in power for over 55years! 你们真是健忘！这次的成绩不是行动党的最差表现！在1991年的大选时，该党的总得票率也是61%。当时反对党才竞逐40席位并得了4席位，那时也是很轰动。大家都认为接下来的大选，行动党的选举会继续滑落。结果呢？本人认为这根本是种策略。执政党是有意让工人党拿下盛港集选区。你们有没有注意到这新划分出来的集选区里，有2个地区是反对党支持者众多的前单选区？难道选区划分时，执政党政府不知道吗？再看整个工人党所赢的地区是结合在一起的。这显示出执政当局是有意让工人党拥有一些席位，即使是牺牲了几位部张级的新兴一代，好让在野党能拥有更多议席。有没有发现工人党党魁毕丹星即使赢了有史以来最多席位，他也没有显得特别兴喜，反而很沉重。因为他知道工人党的未来处境会比刘程强艰辛多。政治是很残酷和肮脏的。你们以为执政当局真的不解民意吗？如是的话，行动党也不会在位55年了！

Hitler on Nomination Day & GE 2020 final outcome.: Enjoy: th-cam.com/video/YPVaiSSNmYc/w-d-xo.html

Many Singaporeans feel that they wanted PAP to form the Gov, yet they also want opposition to challenge the Gov. This thought in my view is a punishment to the govern party. Making difficulties for policy umplementation, waste lots of time to express opinions. The results will be lose lose to Singaporeans

This panel is great! So balanced. But the moderator has a huge bias and slanted the dialogue for me. I was present live and read the questions being voted. The moderator completely ignored all questions related to being critical of opposition parties and focused on questions critical of PAP. He even clicked "answered" on questions that were never touched, simply to skip over them. That is highly unethical. As much as the webinar was still enjoyable and very informative, it is important that all concerns of Singaporeans are debated, and not selectively done by this moderator. CAPE you can do better then that. How are we to have a vibrate election/democracy if you want change, but are willing to take any sort of change without scrutiny on what we are changing to?

Love what you guys are doing, hope to see more. Thanks for speaking up!

Fantastic discussion. Usually, we don't get to hear such discourse.

39.23 "That shows that you dont need to build up reserves 30 years in order to spend them in 3 months"- Damn!

Very insightful discussion! it would be more interesting should the panel have included a sociologist of disaster. I know a few fellow singaporean sociologists who are working on this area. and this is important because the comment on “institutional failures” can be addressed more critically.

Thank you for this insightful discussion of many different aspects of Singapore society and governance, as revealed by the country's response to the pandemic. It struck me as I was listening that, more than personal experience with injustice and inequality, students (and by that I mean all of us) need a comprehensive analytical framework to understand not just the causes but also the interrelatedness of our social difficulties, whether that framework be Marxist, liberal democratic, anarchic, or something else. Authoritarian populism is a neat label but how did we get to this state of things? We need a theory and a history to complement and contextualize the many insights thrown up by this stimulating event.

Love the discussions. Thank you for making the recording available as I missed the live webinar.

Insightful talk. Looking forward to more talks.