Author: Li Da Casual People Source: A Casual Person outside Di’anmenwai (ID: damyyxr)
The “nine in one” election in Taiwan has ended these days. In the election of 21 county mayors, the Kuomintang won 13 seats, far higher than the DPP’s 5 seats.
Tsai Ing wen had to take the blame and resign as the party chairman, planning to let the mayor of Kaohsiung under her faction take over, in case Lai Qingde took the lead.
From the perspective of the global environment, the Russian Ukrainian battlefield has shifted the strategic focus of the United States to a certain extent, and the decline of the global populist force has directly affected the popularity of the Democratic Progressive Party. Pelosi’s persistent visit to Taiwan before the mid-term elections was the last straw that killed the camel.
Pelosi, as a die hard member of the organic group, has led the House of Representatives for 20 years, but she was still elected after the mid-term elections
As a result, the Democratic Progressive Party, which has lost support from both internal and external situations at the same time, has been defeated in local elections.
But this time, it is not the defeat of the DPP that deserves attention, but the rise of the new generation of the Kuomintang. In particular, Jiang Wan’an, the fourth generation of Chiang’s family born in 1978, was elected mayor of Taipei with high votes, becoming a super political star.
Politics can never escape the topic of family. In the context of contemporary Asian civilization, those candidates who are blessed by their ancestors are especially favored.
Aung San in Myanmar, Abe in Japan, Park Geun hye in South Korea, Little Marcos in the Philippines, and our neighbors all have the ancestors’ protection.
Consensus is the foundation of politics. There was a time when people created the world and rebuilt the order in the troubled times. Therefore, resources in all aspects were arranged according to the logic of the strong, and the family memory was thus established.
Oriental civilization also prefers stability, so the shelf of the family has been preserved in the thousands of years of vastness, and has been printed in the thinking patterns of generations.
Therefore, when the support rate of the Kuomintang continued to decline, Chu Lilun, suffering from the unavailability, brought back the fourth generation of Chiang Kai shek in the United States to save the declining trend.
Jiang Wan’an’s life experience has been written by many media, so I won’t repeat it. His growth experience is basically the routine of the elites in the island. After graduating from the Taiwan University in politics and law, he received a doctor’s degree in the United States and started a law firm until he returned to the island to inherit his mantle.
However, the biggest problem of family politics is that the later generations have lived in luxury for a long time, often “why not eat minced meat”, and are no longer sensitive to the world and human feelings, or even divorced from reality.
Like this son of Chiang, he once committed childishness. In 2019, he publicly supported Tsai Ing wen’s cross-strait policy in the program, which caused an uproar within the Kuomintang.
Although he immediately changed his tune the next day, he had to give up the election next year and hid until this year.
Although the Kuomintang has been overwhelmed recently, it is still powerful. It is not difficult to elect local candidates to the top. However, if he did not learn anything from his previous setbacks, he would certainly not be able to rise to the top of the regional leadership.
Ma Ying jeou, who was also nurtured by Chiang Ching kuo for a long time, went out of the brainwashing of western narrative, got rid of the inertia of western elites, and followed the delicate balance to create prosperity in the island for several years.
Times have changed, and Schrodinger’s public opinion in the island is really uncertain.
Before, there were statues and coffins of Chiang Kai shek repeatedly painted, and the “228 Incident” was used for annual publicity. But now the people have elected the fourth generation leader of the Chiang family.
In 2018, Taipei Zhongzheng Memorial Hall was painted
Public opinion sways repeatedly in the post truth era, and tearing may be the answer. But what is more critical may be that Taiwan’s people have long been tired of being played with by local politicians and controlled by international games. They need a firm symbol to get rid of the floating duckweed like fate.
For this reason, they would rather choose the illegitimate offspring of a person who committed blood debts to Taiwan, rather choose a new person who has been in politics for only a few years, and reluctantly gamble.
However, what the Taiwanese people want is not what a young childe who is a family member can afford.
Who on earth can afford this determination?
The answer is ready, but there are too many people in the island who are either fooled or pretending to be confused.
However, how long can people be allowed to be confused in this great change that happens once in a century?