alt Hacker NewsSingapore is a strange outlier among successful democratic countries. There's always stories that are untold. For example,
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"He was one of the founders of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), which has governed the country continuously since independence"
Very democratic country.
It's not a democratic country. If it was then so is China and North Korea. They hold elections too
It's not really a proper democracy, the same party has ruled since the founding of the country.
There are severe restrictions on speech, assembly, press and important legal and political barriers for the opposition parties. It is very easy to land in front of a tribunal for defamation or similar for expressing dissent or accusing the government of corruption.
The truth is that Singapore has been lucky that Lee Kuan Yew and most of his successors have been good bureaucrats and politicians. That makes the ruling party also somewhat popular.
Lee Kuan Yew has been an astonishing nation builder and an extremely brilliant man with a huge sensibility for politics and understanding the world.
But it's still a system that's waiting for the wrong people to be put in charge and test the limits of their "democracy".
"Over the following decades, Lee built a strong government that was backed by a competent and virtually corruption-free civil service..."
This part of the history, only mentioned in this one sentence, is the most interesting and relevant for other countries, and is really what sets Singapore apart from other countries in the region.