Singaporeans Express Bewilderment Over Rising Costs Despite Voting For Policies That Caused Them
Singapore - A curious phenomenon has emerged amongst Singaporean retirees and baby boomers, who seem mystified by the rising costs of living that are making retirement unaffordable, despite having consistently voted for the very policies that led to these conditions over the past few decades.
"We just don't understand where these high costs are coming from," said Mdm Tan, 67, shaking her head in confusion. "Back in my day, we could retire comfortably on our CPF savings. Now CPF doesn't seem to be enough, even though the incumbent party has been governing successfully all this time. It's all rather puzzling."
Mdm Tan is representative of a generation that flourished when housing and healthcare were affordable, only to find themselves floundering now that prices have skyrocketed beyond their means. Like others, she scratches her head trying to determine the cause, careful to avoid acknowledging any connection to the unbridled immigration, lack of minimum wage laws, unchecked inflation, overly liberal financial policies, and astronomical ministerial salaries that she has endorsed election after election.
"The rising costs must be due to all those opposition voters," opined Mr Lee, 65, who relies on financial assistance despite having worked hard all his life. "If only everyone supported the tried and tested leaders, I'm sure we wouldn't be in this predicament."
Mr Lee insists his loyalty to the ruling party is as steadfast as ever, even as he struggles to pay for basic necessities. "The 4G leaders will sort things out," he declared optimistically, ignoring the fact that said leaders arose from the very system responsible for the current conditions faced by retirees like himself.
These sentiments were echoed by other retirement-age Singaporeans, who remained staunch supporters of status quo policies despite said policies having failed them. When pressed to explain the obvious contradictions, most responded with blank, confused looks, before robotically repeating familiar refrains about stability, prosperity, and pragmatism.
Political analysts say this strange reflexive support in spite of lived experience can be attributed to chronic dissonance between expectations and reality. "Cognitive dissonance is a powerful force," explained Dr Lim Chin Wah from the Institute of Policy Studies. "People will perform remarkable mental gymnastics to align their beliefs with evidence to the contrary. It's quite an astonishing phenomenon."
At press time, the bewildered Singaporeans were preparing to vote for precisely the same policies again. When told they could consider alternatives, they blinked vacantly before asking "What alternatives?"
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