Do you believe in what the presidential
candidates promise -- to make our lives hopeful and better? Or have you learned
from experiences and known they are full of boasts?
The politics repeats itself and the strategies
of it might be applied to most countries, especially democratic ones. If you’re
not with me, it’s fine, but somehow it’s true! Take your time and find out what
they’ve promised before the election and what they’ve put in action after it.
And, the facts will be apparently shown in front of you.
“We want justice,” Badurl Khan, the mosque’s founder, said this while a dozen men standing beside him on August 14 in front of TV cameras, reporters and police after both immigrants from Bangladesh, Maulama Akonjee and Thara Uddin on the way home from midday prayer when they were killed (Abigail Hauslohner,Washington Post). The official statement from the police station on Saturday was that they had no reason to think the killings involved in a hate crime and that it might be a botched robbery.
“We want justice,” Badurl Khan, the mosque’s founder, said this while a dozen men standing beside him on August 14 in front of TV cameras, reporters and police after both immigrants from Bangladesh, Maulama Akonjee and Thara Uddin on the way home from midday prayer when they were killed (Abigail Hauslohner,Washington Post). The official statement from the police station on Saturday was that they had no reason to think the killings involved in a hate crime and that it might be a botched robbery.
However, it was not a single event according
to Washington Post – that hate crimes did happen recently, and no one could
predict what might be coming especially before the Presidential election held
in November this year in America.
Watching the two candidates, one of whom is
going to be President of the United States, have you been wondering if
both/either of them been delivering any which guarantees the split existing
among people could be mended in the end. How much will he/she do for his/her
people not breaking words delivered to people?
You might deeply concern that it is beyond
question that uneasiness is gripping not only this working-class corner of
Queens in New York but more than what we could imagine across borders in most
western countries, appropriate to adopt “all,” for various reasons, racism of
which is the worst of all.
Populism is so popular that people are easily
provoked by the political speeches and deepening hatred quickly towards others
of different cliques. Populism is defined in a pathetic way, narrowed down crazily
here.Taiwan is such a tiny island, which might not be noticed if you haven’t scrutinized the world map very closely. It is actually too small to make a slight difference when it comes to global issues you probably think. Then, you might question how things which have happened in Taiwan could be the same as what occur in your own country by far much bigger than Taiwan, of course.
The differences of classes, such as working
or lifestyle, have been under dispute since they were arisen from the lack of
understanding and the bitter hostility started rooting its seeds by political speeches
while elections especially in 2000. Why is it not about racism?
SIGH!!! In Taiwan, there are aboriginals of
different tribes, immigrants, but most of the residents of the same race,
Chinese, settling down in Taiwan in different times. That seems to make such a
huge difference due to arrival timing stirred up by the so-called politicians.
Why did it come about if the official
language is Chinese even though some of us have our dialects still spoken, not dead
languages at all, depending on which provinces of China your ancestors came
from? Most or some of us do learn the facts – the candidates want to win their
elections and the separatism “has become” a must. Do you agree with this if you
look at what has been going on in America, don’t you?
Right, it was the presidential election in
2000 in Taiwan and I know I should capitalize “p,” but I did on purpose – to
use a lower case. Optimistically imaging to do that could have minimized the
outcomes he has done to people since then. Besides, who cares? There are no
more expectations from those leaders who have failed to be good and responsible
ones, whom people have trusted but ended up losing their faith in.
The former President Chen (I don’t need to
give the whole name because there was only one, whose surname is Chen), for
example, had consistently performed in public humbly, showing how much he appreciated
the chance to server his people. And he would have givev the poor a hope because
he struggled through hardship when he was young and poor. While he bragged
about how much he was well prepared and capable of doing a lot for Taiwan during
the election, he took every chance to lash out against the ruling party, the
KMT.
He was happily and luckily given two
President’s terms of office, eight years. In eight years, was he willingly to
keep his promise to make the poor well and the well better? The hostile already
took its roots – the civil servants and the teachers including soldiers and
police officers, most of them were criticized by others due to the pension
policy. The labor parties wanted to have the same policy to apply to them after
retirement. The pensions for the above are higher than those of the laborers.
Don’t you agree with it -- the pension should
be the same if the pay is the same. If the pay is different, how come the pension
should be the same? Shouldn’t both the efforts one puts on and the periods of
time one works on be counted in when talking about achievement or career? Being
talented is a bonus for sure. Isn’t it “fair?” Shouldn’t it a simple issue?
Here comes an example you could not give it a
thought if you don’t think it’s an appropriate one. Could a flunked student go
to his/her teacher and complain about why he/she couldn’t pass like other
classmates since he/she sat on the test longer than others? Now, you know what
I mean, don’t you?
Now, it is difficult to distinguish the right
from the wrong in Taiwan if involving matters of politics. There are only the
differences of political parties. Anger is one thing which disturbs the
lifestyle and life quality in Taiwan. Sad isn’t it?
It’s absolutely right that you could sort of
figure out if you’re cool enough to predict what kind of President one will turn
out to be by the way how to fight against the inevitable siege of attacks from
the rival/s. Besides, the inner circle of a candidate’s advisers might also
offer some clues to the thoughtful voters – what kind of government is going to
look forward to.
Surely, candidates always make promises to
collect their potential voters in different domains, but many people never
learn the truth -- that those promises spoken in public or printed in words will
never come true. They talk things they don’t really know and they don’t care,
but try to please in every way they could. They are all the strategies they use
to win an election. That is all.
Look at us – what now in Taiwan.
The way the first woman President Tsai responded
has been subtle and very quiet, not giving a public speech to her people, to
the immense pressures from the conflicts for the territorial disputes in the
South China Sea between Taiwan and some countries -- China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
In addition, she did not stand up for her
people when the incident occurred. One ship was distrained by the Japanese
defense force and the fishermen were accused of illegally fishing in the
Japanese territory, who paid more than US$ 40,000 to collect the ship back and
safely came back to Taiwan. They want “justice” too! Is this the way how she
does and will conduct for such international affairs?
Hasn’t she convinced us that dialogues are open
and welcome? But, what she’s showed is only endless wordy compromises, which are
not defined as communication at all. Of course, she is entitled to hire a cook,
whose pay is NT$60,000 (US$20,000 or so) while a generally salary of a college
graduate is NT25,000 since she affords to do that and it does give her a very good
appetite. Shouldn’t we leave this alone?
It’s unfair to point out what she hasn’t
spoken about because she tries to make it right to close all the nuclear power
plants, which are of danger to people. Don’t you believe that? See
what happened to Japan’s nuclear power plants. Our President Tsai has guaranteed
us a country which does not host nuclear power plants operating at least.
What is she planning to replace the nuclear
power plants with? How will we get electricity needed to survive and support the
industry and economy development? Are we oblivious of the existing that we have the
largest amounts of emission of carbon dioxide from the notorious coal-fired
power plants? Don’t you think they aren’t electricity generation?
Words do change meaning over time --
especially when they are spoken by politicians (Gregory Krieg, CNN August 13,
2016). I am all with this point. What the politicians promise is somehow opposite to what
they actually do.
