The matter of voting is inherently irrational

Daron 2022-02-18 08:01:34

Jane, played by Sandra Brak, is an election trader. During the campaign, he worked out various strategies to find ways to make the boss who hired her win the election. Her colleagues and the aides of the rival candidate were all professional elections hired from far away from the United States. Assistants, they don't care about the changes made by the winners of the country's policies, let alone the impact on the welfare of the people. For them, only victory and making the employer feel that the money is worth spending is the most important thing.

There is a young man in the play who always believes that after the re-elected president with old experience, he will definitely change the status quo of the country and create a better future for the people. However, he was once a core member of the election campaign and he will never again be elected after the election of the old president. I can't see the president anymore. What's even more disappointing is that the old president immediately turned his back on his campaign promise and introduced the IMF without the referendum. Looking at his surprised and angry expressions, he always felt similar. Our fantasies about political idols have not been disillusioned again and again, and in the end we can only face disappointment again and again. Due to culture, we always expect the appearance of great men to lead us to the broad road. We have created one god after another, and finally discovered that they are actually just god sticks.

I don’t know how many people will read Lao Cong’s Weibo. At least I have rarely encountered Weibo accounts around me. The extremely safe content will naturally not elicit the comments of extreme netizens, so what a warm and harmonious world it is. But I have followed some well-known Weibo accounts and observed messages. The following replies have realized that Chinese netizens are as radical as we are, and there are sensible people who are calm and can see the essence of things, but because of education, most Chinese people Believing that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, whether it is independence in name or in substance, it is a kind of betrayal and should be stopped and punished. Only a small number of people think that Taiwan has been separated for so long and that the small land is about to leave. Just let them go. It is understandable that the Fifty-Mao Party hates Taiwan independence, but what is really terrifying is that many people I admire and agree that Taiwan is a part of China. These people who should be more capable of independent thinking will have such a view. This shows that it is brainwashed. The impact of things far exceeds our imagination. In Taiwan, there are actually quite a few people who want to be reunified with China. If the votes of the political parties are used, there are about 560,000 radicals (the New Party and the Chinese Reunification Promotion Party). It’s hard to imagine, isn’t it? Among the same people who grew up eating Taiwanese rice and drinking Taiwanese water, there are so many people who ignore China’s suppression of us, and even cheer in their hearts. They only hope that the day of reunification will come soon and share China’s arrogance. The glory of the world.

Since childhood, we have studied Chinese history and Chinese geography, and our values ​​are Confucianism. The idea of ​​democratic politics is Sun Yat-sen’s Three People's Principles. It is undeniable that we are indeed culturally Chinese, but when did Taiwan start to talk to China? It should be when Zheng Chenggong drove out the Dutch, but at that time it was only a base area for anti-Qing Fuming. Later, the Qing Dynasty wiped out Zheng Chenggong’s forces and sent a governor to govern Taiwan, which was barely related to China. , But the Manchus are barbarians outside the Guan, they are not Han at all, the Han dynasty actually perished at the end of the Ming Dynasty. During the few years when the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan, how much do they manage? To talk about comprehensive management, you will have to wait for the Shimonoseki Treaty after Taiwan was ceded to Japan, and the Japanese wiped out all opposition forces from north to south, and even suppressed them. The aborigines have truly completed comprehensive control. After that is the history that everyone knows best. The Jiang regime fled from the mainland to Taiwan and forcibly occupied Taiwan. If Japanese rule is said to be Japanese rule, then Kuomintang’s governance is also the KMT rule.

The most frequently heard sentence is that the two parties are equally bad, and the elections are the same, but are the two parties really the same bad? The 228 incidents of the Kuomintang killed countless officials and intellectuals, and the 46 incidents were framed as the Communist Party imprisoned or executed. Students of China, countless dissidents who were imprisoned or executed under one hundred articles of the Criminal Law, assassinated Professor Chen Wencheng, Jiang Nan, and Lin Yixiong’s family. How should the KMT repay the blood debts of these unjust souls? The DPP will be rotten again because of political ideas. Does the disagreement hurt people? I really don’t know if everyone is too forgetful or doesn’t know these things at all. How can they still support such a political party. Maybe everyone will say that it's all over, and now that Japan invaded China, everyone is still very happy to go shopping in Japan. But does the KMT have frankly faced its previous crimes and showed an apology? Besides, it stands to reason that the KMT should be at odds with the Communist Party. How could it become a good buddy who makes wine and joy, or even a spokesperson? Seeking personal gain, without heart. How can political parties that operate locally receive so much support?

Election is not the whole of democracy. There should be an enforceable forced exit mechanism to enter the market, instead of trying to make a false name and never reach the threshold of removal. A few days ago, I saw on Weibo that China has posted several pictures of Jiang Wan’an and voters shaking hands and shaking hands. I also commented on "How did the fourth generation of Jiang fall to this point?" The answer is simple because in a democratic game, the people Imagine that you are the master. After you have elected the servant, imagine that the servant will serve the master. But in fact, the roles are exchanged immediately after the election. The servant becomes the master. The original master becomes not even a servant, just a slave who is allowed to call and slaughter. . This is the end of the game without supervision and exit mechanism.

When choosing whom to vote for, we are not based on rational judgments, but just a projection of boxers-like emotions. Zhou Ziyu's incident has forced many angry votes and disappointed many Kuomintang supporters even more reluctant to vote. When Chen Shui-bian was caught in a corruption storm (according to the results of the later judicial trial, it seems that it was framed at the beginning) and the DPP’s momentum was extremely low, Ma Ying-jeou received 7.35 million; but after eight years of KMT messing up, Tsai Ing-wen only received 689. Wan, that is, there are so many and so many people who would rather not vote than vote for her. Finally, let me end it with a psychological experiment. Psychologists find a bunch of people to do very boring work. After the test is over, the subject must tell the next subject that this job is very interesting. These subjects Some people can get $1, while others can get $20. In the end, the experimenter will ask them how they feel about the content of the experiment. The result of the experiment is that more people who get $1 say that the work is fun, and People who reach $20 generally say that work is boring. In order to persuade themselves, those who received $1 to lie had to change their perceptions and thought that the work was fun, while those who received $20 could blame the lie on payment and faithfully present their perceptions. The meaning of the election is probably like this: I have always been educated by the party state, even if the Kuomintang has done countless dirty and stupid things, in order not to make myself feel stupid (not to change my perception of the Kuomintang), I have to convince myself that the Kuomintang is great. Great, and then cast it resolutely.

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  • Novella 2022-03-22 09:02:34

    2016: This kind of good film has been submerged! 2018.12: Looking at it again, I still feel surprises again and again, no one has watched a good movie!

  • Avis 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    Seeing comments that Jane can be regarded as the best female character in American movies in ten years, I agree ~ Sandra Bullock's performance is also remarkable, but unfortunately it was dragged down by the mediocre script. The completion of the whole film is actually not bad, but it is too boring. After watching it, no scene is particularly impressive. A few interesting points have basically been cut into the trailer. And the role of BBT is good soy sauce TT

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