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Singapore is a parliamentary democracy with elected members of parliament and president. It is certainly not a "totalitarian country", although it could be cons
by Veen 4y ago
Singapore is a parliamentary democracy with elected members of parliament and president. It is certainly not a "totalitarian country", although it could be considered authoritarian compared to western democracies.
- segasaturn 4y agoPeople sometimes conflate being a single-party state with being a dictatorship/totalitarianism. Japan is considered a model democracy and has been run by the same party for over 70 years! It's just another way of doing democracy, there's no one size fits all approach to it.
- int_19h 4y agoEr, who considers Japan a model democracy outside of Japan? And yes, democracy can be authoritarian as well. The problem is that if the government controls public discourse to a sufficient extent, any democracy becomes a sham no matter how fair elections themselves are.
- Zurrrrr 4y agoYou're right, I used the wrong term. I'd say Singapore is still authoritarian in a vacuum though, western democracies aside.