Yes, my considerations now vs my considerations when i was a first time voter was different.
Politics is about comms. If different parties have different ideologies, then show it.
However, for this election, i'm seeing these 'coalition' parties echoing the same motherhood messages. In fact, i suspect some of them rushed out a manifesto by copying from each other. Come on.
So my conclusion is, it is ego issue, they have different political ambitions. There is a difference between ambitions and ideologies.
I'd take one step even further. To give them benefit of doubt, even if there are differences in ideologies, i dont see these differences. This means their comms failed; they are lousy in delivering messages.
You cant comms properly and you want to talk about improving policies? Come on.
My opinion is different from your last para, but i'm happy to agree to disagree
I like it that we have differing but positive opinions.
Unless we have concrete proof/facts that the opposition parties had reached out to each other then there's actually a few scenarios that we can all speculate on -
1) They did speak to each other but coalition failed due to whatever logical / selfish reasons.
2) They didn't speak to each other due to possible tactical strategies that isn't publicly made known.
Don't say opposition parties to opposition parties, for ge2025 Ariffin and Gigene they didn't do a good job with working together in the same party.
Singapore had its first GE from 1968. After 57 years of democracy, I would like to believe that the oppositions should have learned and come to a conclusion that united we stand and divided we fall. They had countless of 5 years to plan and strategize together. So there must be some logical reasoning that they didn't.
Look at private candidate Jeremy Tan campaign for Mountbatten SMC, I'm sure he has his own personal / logical reasons to solo it since he said he had been planning it for the last 3 years.
If you tell me the opposition parties failed in coordination then I tell you they probably have tried it but things just don't turn out the way we as outsiders would have thought was the best way moving forward.
