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Singapore’s biggest challenge ahead is keeping the middle ground intact
Holding the centre together amid anxieties is a key driving force behind Forward Singapore.
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To succeed, a social compact must operate as a mass movement, strengthening the broad middle ground in national politics, says the writer.
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What holds a country together? A thriving middle ground.
For it is the broad middle ground that decides who has the right to govern in Singapore, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew highlighted in a speech to the British Labour Party in October 1967. He argued that this required the fruits of hard work and sacrifice to be “fairly and justly distributed” across the country.
