We often have reasons not to offer ourselves as the Indian Chief meddling the socio-politics in Singapore. There are the fears of repercussion, pressures of daily life, and repression of creativity, that render the inevitable lack of charisma, foresight, and ability to analyze and articulate well in words to a wide audience.

With every single day we are outside Singapore, the distance grows between us, in the West, and the Singapore heartlanders. No matter how much (or little) longing we have left for our birth country, or how hard we try to grasp the current affairs, news are filtered through different channels with varied time lag. There is so much I can talk about Singapore sociopolitics. Heartlanders, who are affected most in the society don't even care much of a hoot. Sometimes, you see a flame erupting and burning for less than a month, but it quickly dies into ashes. 

Confucians said on political meddling, "Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger" and that government should act as parents to the people and rule with ethics. However, political party that remains in power too long tend to get corrupted. There is no external audit for most Singapore government agencies. We only depend on the government's claims that corruption can be prevented if we pay the leaders well enough.

There is also a Chinese saying that a good judge with a clear head will not conduct a trial on "domestic affairs."  Based on foundations of such a paternalistic society, most followers would just sit back, allow one of the highest paid government in the world breastfeed them, or wait for the ridiculed opposing tigers fight it out and destroy themselves.

People ultimately don’t care- it shows in the vote time and again. We discuss whatever we want in blogs- but there is a lack of unity. We talk; then carry on with our life, as if nothing has happened. We don't dare to be activists, because that could lead to 'illegal gatherings' prosecutable by Singapore law.  

We know, for we have been taught well that -the one who speaks and acts differently could be flushed out by acidic hatred and punitive action.