The problem with today's PAP is that, no one can talk straight and wipe that stupid smile off their face which anyone with an eye can tell its just a "PR" smile.
PAP people need to stop focusing on the "image" and start returning to the roots of what made they so effective during LKY's era: actual substance, genuine concern/focus of Singapore's development and outright blunt honesty.Today's PAP... feels plastic.
Every candidate feels very polished and squeaky clean.... but almost inhuman... Dont feel like real human beings even. Even Lawrence Wong himself sometimes (it was worse before he was PM, I felt).
People like Chan Chun Sing whom really is very normal Singaporean in normal speech, which I experience when I was in SISPEC and he came to recruit for Recce commanders for his Brigade; had to adapt to that squeaky clean imagery that handicaps the way how he talks - making him look unconvincing and even awkward- which despite his talent, lost him his potential prime ministership.
And honestly, Worker's Party is also starting to fall into this same trap.... of this very manicured imagery/branding.
Looking back at LKY's election rally in 1980, you can basically sense how much we had lost over the years, in term of the quality of leadership in politics.
I blame Lee Hsien Loong for his failure to effectively do leadership renewal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwzhT3pSpU0
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