It is wrong to say that "individuals who don't rush in the game with guns blazing don't get things done".
Gandhi might have replied: "Be a pansy and do something".
If singapore wanted to come govern my state I'd be all for it.
I'm surprised you find this hard to understand. People throughout history have fought and died for self-rule.
Hell, anyone who's been a kid knows how much it sucks to be told what to do, especially when the person doing the telling thinks it's "what's best for you".
It is not uncommon for the kid to eventually grow up and come to the understanding: "my parents knew what was best for me after all".
But while I certainly do not want to move back in with my parents and let them tell me what to do, I'm doing some things now that they tried to teach me when I was young and I thought those things to be stupid at that time.