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the road to hell is paved with good intentions let not forget SG is a sort of single party system with no real freedom of press.
by truthwhisperer 5y ago
the road to hell is paved with good intentions let not forget SG is a sort of single party system with no real freedom of press.
- legalcorrection 5y agoAnd that’s a big part of why their country is wealthy and successful while their neighboring countries are disasters.
- phantomathkg 5y agoAny prove?
- noobermin 5y agoKorea and Japan rose from the ashes (Japan having lost WWII after their imperialist ambitions failed) in the same amount of time. Korea had a dictatorship or sorts but Japan didn't, but unless I'm mistaken, neither government was as autocratic (and still is) like the PAP is today.
- Ferrotin 5y agoIf they were less autocratic, and they still won elections, they’d do okay. The problem would be if they lost.
- hither_shores 5y agoThe first Korean Republic (1948-1960) was vastly more repressive than the PAP at its worst, let alone today. Mass arrests of political opponents, reeducation camps, massacres: you name it, Rhee did it. The second republic (1960 to 1961) was theoretically a liberal democracy, but got couped almost immediately. After that, South Korea remained a somewhat milder developmental dictatorship, ala Singapore, until 1987.
- legalcorrection 5y agoJapan was a de facto one party state for most of the post war period.
- truthwhisperer 5y agogood question, maybe because their neighbouring countries have a strong relationship to a certain religion (1) and (2) SG used to be a GB colony like HK which is doing great as well.
- legalcorrection 5y agoHong Kong under British rule was an autocracy too. Sure, they had Western civil liberties, but no real democracy.
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