Read it in Today first and then saw BN's response. Yeah, go back to bed was exactly right. Waste of time and only serve to confirm many of our guesses what MDA is: clueless and earning the status of stupid in a hurry.
But to be shrewd you have to let MDA win or they will find a way to make it really costly for BN and especially Bertha Henson. They can beat MDA in a classic David vs Goliath match (Malcolm Gladwell latest book tell the story better than any Bible teacher) but this is Singapore, and government power is mostly unlimited. We are not quarreling over having 6.9 million people here. Better concede. MDA and its upstairs face is more precious than survival. They are not as large as Dr. Goh forgiving Dr. Tan for making him look bad in Parliament once.
Anyway the bigger the win MDA scores, the greater its loss with the smartest and most influential segments of our society and the international media. And they have to meet these global organizations pretty often too. It is now a no fun job for them. Imagine sitting across the conference table and wondering if these ang mohs must be thinking I am out of touch. It would be far worse if you imagine them silently thinking you are stupid. And if you meet the Chinese instead they would think you are weak and they would propose why not use their methods. Of course you can't talk to them about Zhou Yongkang who is now in the dog house. Teo Chee Hean once met him so publicly to discuss such matters.
Simply put this government do not know how to govern if they open Singapore further and yet remaining as closed as before is untenable. So how?
Update: 1:55 pm
LOL. Good one Mr. Brown.
On the one hand, I'm sympathetic to Bertha, just like you. On the other hand, I take pleasure to see her stew in this predicament, not unlike how MANY opposition members have been in, in the past. Bertha is no ordinary blogger - she was (or is??) a member of the establishement. She was an influential editor in Shitty Times for YEARS, including during the period of the so-called Marxist conspiracy. She was charged with telling us white is black, and black is white, with a straight face. She was charged with looking the other way, when the Govt unwontonly crosses the line. The Workers Party, and any other people not on the side of the G, is used to being like a mouse in a Science expriement, in which all the rules are dictated by the G and you're asked to spin the wheels. That's the feeling she's having right now. The same feeling many in the past have had to undergo. And of course, she's not used to it. That's what I mean by "serve her right, let her stew in it".
ReplyDeleteAny opposition member, or anyone such as Alex Au, in such a predicament knows that is OBVIOUS that you let MDA win. And stop whining. I guess, just like the mouse on the wheel, she has to throw in her last strength, her last objection, before she realises the futilitty of her effort. Again, one side of me says : serves her right. The other side of her says, "oh, what a pity".
Pyrrhic victory -- lose-lose situation.
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