Anyone else feel hopeless in SG political future?

Using a throwaway cos main account identify me

Am 40, NS MR liao and built my own biz where most of my clients are overseas. I spend half my time in US and half in SG. Am somewhat neutral, voted both PAP and WP twice in Aljunied, but won't consider the other clowns. Now am living in Bukit Timah and won't consider SDP unless WP contest here.

However, am super underwhelmed by Budget 2025 cos its just throwing $$$ at the problem of inflation & the cost of living. I have been increasingly moving my operations to KL due to the high cost of manpower here. With Lawrence's new moves, I am now deciding not if but when to shut down bulk of my office here and move everything to KL. I have tried to keep SG staff but its just not viable if I want to scale up my operations. I get 3 KL staff for every 1 I have in SG and some things cannot be automated.

I have pretty much lost faith in PAP's leadership. There are no solutions, no bold plans, no viable path for SG to remake herself. Just to survive one more election cycle. And before all the PAP IBs start blasting me for being one sided. I want to say the Opposition is also responsible for the state of things right now.

Throughout the past 10 years, they have been incessantly harping on PAP's pro business policies and leveraging it to draw votes for themselves. So it just becomes a race to which party (PAP or WP) is more socialist and more welfare to citizens. Every time PAP comes up with a gift, the only path WP chooses is why isn't the gift bigger for Singaporeans? Its like our reserves are unlimited.

Don't quote me on it but just look at every damn policy proposal the WP has given, Jamus wants increased Taxation for corporates, he wants a higher Green Tax, he wants less family offices in SG and less capital in SG. Its like every policy the PAP propose, WP only counter is why aren't you going left more? You can't just complain. A loyal opposition also needs to come up with its own bold path for SG but I'm frankly not holding my breath that WP is competent or willing to do this.

In the US, I have seen this happen to towns in California where a Democratic woke + left leaning group takes hold of the town and then it goes to shit, especially in San Francisco where the homeless rule the streets & crime is rampant.

The PAP is acting like a hen-pecked husband and is too afraid to make painful decisions because it will likely lose the next election. But certain painful decisions need to be made as it is a hallmark of leadership.

I myself have no answer to our hopeless political future. We need the opposition to keep the ruling party in check. However, the way WP does it is IMHO detrimental to SG's future and PAP is too balless to change. Its like I have to choose between a neutered mandarin class of administrators (PAP) or a populist woke and left leaning group (WP). PSP is probably the other party but frankly it doesn't have the right leadership nor the competence to create a nationwide campaign to challenge the PAP.

So... we are fucked until either one of them changes for the better. I would strongly suggest for those who can, to consider migration in case our country goes to shit which is looking very very likely to come.