Politics is a confusing thing for many people, who invariably wonder now and then why there is a need for old men and women to trade barbs with other old men and women to confuse them even more.
Politics may be to some a source of entertainment, an exhilarating show to watch.
Politics may be to some a chance to attend festival-like rallies, like another sort of pasar malam that comes only once every five years.
Politics may be to some a little game, where you get to mark a little slip of paper with a cross and dump it into the box.
Politics may be to some merely a call to obey higher mortals (the likes of Charles Chong, surely will come to mind). They obey, perhaps because they think that is how everything works. The government is unquestionable. It is to be obeyed.
But politics is none of that.
Politics is not about discrediting and smearing your opponents.
It is not entertainment.
It is not a pasar malam.
It is not a game.
It is not about obeying the government.
Politics is about influence. It is about perspectives. It is about mindsets. It is about interests, specifically, to protect one's own interests.
To protect one's own interests one must know how the political system works.
Too bad many people do not know how the political system works.
Perhaps they don't even know where their best interests lie.
We call it... being CHRONICALLY UNAWARE.
Too bad too many people in Singapore are chronically unaware. We're here to change that.
Stay tuned.
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