Am a Singapore living in the UK, I still find it kinda impossible to explain to my British friends in their country where any politician is lucky to find 40% favourability, for how unfair and one party-dominant our electoral system is, Singaporeans still vote with turnout in the 92-97% range and apparently from today’s poll somehow has 70% approval ratings for both the Prime Minister and Leaser of the Opposition?

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3306142/singapore-pm-opposition-leader-both-enjoy-70-approval-new-voter-survey?utm_medium=Social&utm_content=visual-style&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6ElKC4CPzGOxssZRtqZXRsibzItQ-qAD2ZnRrn09htJDq2vTy5N3RQsJSDhg_aem_priZjjm5BbyKbIYfXgZ_PA

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2 comments

  1. There are actually a fair few governments that sit above 60 percent approval ratings, none of them (to my knowledge) are Western though.

    Mant Westeners will tell you anything close to 70 percent approval ratings are fake and a result of brainwashing, sinply because they don’t have governments that represent their own needs.

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6389062/Canva%2520images/Democracy%2520Perception%2520Index%25202023.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiR6cS_rtGMAxUSsVYBHcQtNhQQFnoECB0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1s0xJRseIXApQJWKlQGdkZ

  2. This is fascinating, and I’m jealous, but also, this led me down a rabbit hole of reading about Raeedah Khan, and as an American, that story is almost as unbelievable as the approval ratings. Like…here politicians get caught telling lies so much more egregious than that basically every day, and nothing really happens.

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