mollymeek

In Singapore, there is meritocracy. You are not rewarded based on who you are born as, but on your abilities. Neither are you disadvantaged because of who you are born as. There is, for instance, absolutely no discrimination against any minority race in the all-important army that protects Singapore's sovereignty. There is equal opportunity for all, though the rich could well buy themselves more capital to get a head start in life. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from being educated just because you are poor. There are scholarships and if you are poor you just have to be good enough for scholarships. There is nothing stopping you from getting as far as your abilities could take you because Singapore is meritocratic.

But Singapore is not ready for a non-Chinese Prime Minister.

Nor a non-male PM, perhaps.

Nor a non-straight PM.

Nor a non-PAP one.

Nor one that is not made in MM's god's image.

And mostmostmost definitely not a lethal combination of all of the above. (Singapore will collapse in 2 milliseconds if that happens. And that's faster than the five years a non-PAP government will (yes, will) cause Singapore's downfall.)

Singapore is not ready for . . . anything its citizens' beloved elected-into-Parliament-via-walkover-and-gerrymandering leaders claim it is not ready for.

And Singapore isn't ready for a lot of things, not because of the enlightened people in power. They are actually very open-minded people. They are even ready to accept disgusting things like Western democracy and homosexuality (these terms rhyme for a reason). But, Singaporeans are the ones who are not ready for these things. And being the representatives of the citizens, the elected-into-Parliament-via-democratic-elections leaders are duty-bound to carry out Singaporeans' wishes.

But at least there's one thing Singapore is ready for. An elected-without-elections non-Chinese President. Yes, we are. We just aren't ready for a President (of any race) who would question subvert the PAP government, try to check on the reserves and so on.

Thankfully, Singapore is also ready for high-class gambling joints Integrated Resorts because its leaders says that it is ready. Just imagine how many foreign talents and PRs would not have jobs if there were no IRs.

One might, of course, say that if Singapore isn't ready for so many things, it should get ready for MM's sake, if it isn't ready. But that's expecting too much from a population of docile peasants, don't you think?

Readiness is a strange concept that escapes bimbos like Molly. Singaporeans are often told to be ready for this and for that. (After all, we are perpetually in a state of crisis that even the world's most expensive democratically-elected cabinet can't get rid of, aren't we?) Soldiers have to be operationally ready at the expense of . . . themselves. We have to be ready for war. We have to be ready for retirement. For a rainy day too (that's why our massive reserves can't be used to frivolously buy umbrellas for the poor when there's mere thunderstorm).

Although there are things that are compulsory for us to be ready for, there are other things we don't have to be ready for.

In Singapore, it helps if you are always ready for the bizarre to strike. It certainly happens more often than wars. On a daily basis, in fact.