I'll offer another perspective. The naïve libdem (roughly speaking) types has for decades convinced themselves that the theory of democratic government is the

I'll offer another perspective. The naïve libdem (roughly speaking) types has for decades convinced themselves that the theory of democratic government is the only true way to run government and country. Among their epic failures is predicting 30 of the last non-existent China's economic collapses because we all know authoritarian governments can't sustain GDP growth. Singapore is another of those cases they can't explain, and so it ends up being an attack on the ideological front -- name calling essentially. And while apparently Singapore is not worse than "Western democracies" in measures that actually matter, they claim that the bad things that happen are worse under authoritarian governments because they're authoritarian. "Freedom and Democracy is always better" is so hard-wired into people's brains that they seem to feel offended when counter examples stare at them in the face. Instead of adopting a curious mindset and trying to figure out why, most of them simply dig harder to uncover bad things that authoritative governments are doing, then accuse others of whataboutism when they point out that these things are common in democracies too. When one side talks about ground truth facts, and the other is resorting to dogma and a priori reasoning and appealing to authority, there's definitely one side that's "more wrong" than the other IMHO.