Originally Posted by bedrock

How Lee Kuan Yew and Putin exposed the democracy bogey | Russia & India Report

Lee Kuan Yew, frmr leader of Singapore, views on Democracy and US policy--not everyone wants freedom.

"In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, the late Singapore strongman, “The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.”

The West treats democracy as religion – a form of government so sacred that it will bomb countries into the stone age in order to sow the seeds of democracy in those places. But in Lee’s view, “Democratic procedures have no intrinsic value. What matters is good government.” The Singapore strongman believed the government’s primary duty is to create a “stable and orderly society” where “people are well cared for, their food, housing, employment, health”.