I have never voted for the Singapore Democratic Party, and that is because it has not represented itself within the constituencies that I had lived in in Singapore. Mr Chee has been demonised by the ruling party ever since he came into politics, and I had believed their rhetoric against him until I read his book “Democratically Speaking” last year. It changed my perspective of opposition politics in Singapore overnight. Here is his short speech at the University of Sydney, where he offers an alternative for politics in Singapore. I would call him a patriot.
Read it here:
http://yoursdp.org/news/is_there_a_singapore_alternative/2014-06-12-5839
