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Singapore’s power structure is essentially an oligarchy or plutocracy of a very wealthy FamiLEE. It's a structural or systemic issue. A small group of people control and run Singapore. They have enough power to turn the country to benefit them and their cronies to the exclusion of others. They have become the only game in... 

There is a local Singapore joke that states that we are a very Christian country – we were run by the Father, the Son and the Holy Goh. This is a reference to our first Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, his son and our current Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Hsien Loong and the Holy Goh is our second Prime Minister, Mr. Goh Chok Tong. This... 

Click to enlarge To a very large extent, the right to govern depends on public opinion. If public opinion is generally favorable towards government policies and the government itself, the government has a mandate to govern. If they are not, the government will be kicked out sooner or later, as power ultimately resides with the...