It's basically a benevolent dictatorship due to one party being in charge for the last 67 years.

Hardly benevolent. I'll take every social problem America has 10x to avoid being an extremely boring "utopia" like Singapore.

It's literally the antithesis of "cool", whatever your definition. The most square people on earth.

Not just one party, but one family.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him.

Sometimes a benevolent dictatorship is better than a perverted and corrupt democracy. Democracy isn't the perfect be-all and end-all form of governance that will work well for everyone, a fact even ancient greeks recognized. Letting the masses decide the future of a country just because they're the majority is like letting the passengers fly the plane because they outnumber the crew.

While many countries in the west have a two or multi party system due to historical reasons, on certain issues they often just function as controlled opposition, making your vote worthless anyway, with political battles between parties now being mostly and ideological circus to keep the unwashed masses distracted and divided while they get robbed blind, rather than focused on actually fixing things for the working class.

If Singapore can skip this expensive time consuming circus and just get shit done, then good for them, but I don't want our western leaders to take the wrong lesson and move us to a dictatorship as the promised solution to fix things, which is what I feel they're trying.

Singapore is the case when you can just rely on your government to do its job and they will do the job properly!!!!

Can't remember when it was last time you could rely on western government to do the right thing