Why does this shithole of a country have such a high voter turnout rate? Did they just all get programmed to keep PAP in power every election season?

>>212506195 (OP)
Why does it have a Muslim flag?

>>212506195 (OP)
asian just need cheap rice, 4 rooms cuckshed, and cheap beer

>>212506195 (OP)
Voting for non-PAP politicians is a surefire way to get your district stripped of all resources and programs - devastating in a country where government welfare is basically necessary to even have an apartment to live in for most people. Voter turnout is basically a litmus test on the PAP's popularity in and of itself, because most people who would vote against the PAP just stay home out of fear.

>>212506233
how long are they going to keep up this democracy cosplay, why do they need so many politicians anyways

>>212506303
Probably forever, the PAP is everything that Nazi Germany wished it could be but with an unironic multicultural spin, their entire founding myth is that they're actually the real fair democracy compared to Malaysia and that's why they got kicked out

>>212506352
i thought singapore got kicked out because PAP would threaten UMNO's majority?

>>212506195 (OP)
singapore is a chinese merchant association with monarch-oligarch leadership pretending to be a republic

>>212506407
Yes, I don't see why UMNO would want an island of nazbol changs and jeets in their country making Malays a minority and trying to seize power in places like Sarawak

>>212506484
So just a ... Venice Republic?

>>212506407
No Singapore got "kicked" out because LKY no longer needed Malaysia to push off the communists on the island that were threatening his authoritarian view and Malay politicians thought Singapore would crash and burn in a decade and come crawling back to be subservient to Kuala Lumpur

>>212506539
What is Singapore's version of the Council of Ten?

>>212506195 (OP)
Anon ...
They are a one-party state, like China

I didn't vote because I am from bangladesh

>>212506225
What's the issue exactly? Thats a recipe for comfy life

>>212506225
I wish I could get that

>>212507133
No they're an EFFECTIVE one party state. Like Japan.

>>212506195 (OP)
Unlike Western shitholes like yours where elections are decided by who can ot can't be arsed to turn out, voting is compulsory and you must vote by law if eligible. The penalty for not doing so is to be struck off the roll for future elections if you do not turn up (you have to pay to be reinstated).

The purpose of this is to ensure that our dictatorship has a veritable and undeniable mandate to justify whatever they want to do to the and the excuse cannot be used that "there was a low 30% turn out, the population doesn't support this". So, if such a system existed in the UK for example, Two Teir Keir could claim full sapport in clamping down on the Southport stabbing riots instead of the wobbly mandate he has from Pakis and the most motivated Labour voters only

>>212508227
Do you have proof that non-voters vote/prefer significantly differently from voters?

>>212506195 (OP)
I want to visit to see birbs

>>212508262
There's no way to know since this system has always been in place, but it's likely that there would still be massive turnout by Western standards even without compulsory voting:

1. Singapore is not a big place, everyone lives within a block or two of a polling centre, so you don't have the issue in the US of old folks having to drive 30 miles to get to vote and deciding its not worth the trouble
2. People genuinely enjoy voting here. You get a public holiday (again unlike the US where you depend on your employers' good graces to give you time off) so there's a festive atmosphere. Its also the one time in every five years of our shitty existence that we can exercise our very limited democratic right of expression, so people, especially if they are disgruntled, make it a high priority. They are not as apathetic as voters in Western democracies, people here are delusional and genuinely belive their vote matters even if they can swing one seat away from the ruling party, they will take it

>>212506195 (OP)
>high voter turnout rate?
The population is very strongly programmed to bow to authority.
>Did they just all get programmed to keep PAP in power every election season?
That's half the reason but also PAP keeps messing with the voting zones to dilute opposition votes and continue winning

>>212506225
My room is probably bigger than your main hall in your shanty shack

>>212506407
No more like entirely just like how Israeli immigration would threaten the existence of Palestine. Just rotten luck they could have the power and agency to stop it. It's a racial thing not just political. Malaysian Malaysia is a excuse to acclimate malays to minority status. But they only prolonged the inevitable. Singapore has mustered so much power, arms, capital, and guaranteed glazing from the superpowers and is waiting just even 1 malay to get agitated enough to strike the first punch thus casus belli.