You build, so you can exploit. You need to breed a group of traitors who are willing to betray the majority for personal gains.

He did nothing to Singapore. The only thing great he did was to allowed ppl like Lim kim San and Goh keng Swee the power to build Singapore to where we are now. All he did was “killing” of his opponents. Including that of his friends. All the suggestion he gave to the state did not aid Singapore.

What he is good at is talking and acting. Everything was a show. Giving a good show to ppl easily persuaded to believe him. Ask him now to talk something of substance now. In our Singapore context of educated man and woman, i do not believe he could convince any of us his ideas. He may be able to con the uneducated forefather in the past, that can never be done to brainwash brillant minds of our generations.

Lest Mahathir forgets, Malaysia is not big either, yet he always want to take on the United States and Australia! Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

I’m not surprised that LKY was ardent supporter of Democracy & Freedom (as in liberal democratic point of view) as opposition leader. he’s educated in British afterall. Even Zhou called him ‘banana’, for he was indeed filled with western ideas. But LKY has been proven to be, first & foremost, a pragmatic person.

His assessment in 1990 that democracy – with few exception – might not work in Asia …is still correct to this day. No ‘Developing’ country gains status to be ‘Developed’ after they implement western (liberal) democratic system. I doubt we will see one soon.