😠 “Check Our Official Website”: DPP’s Arrogant Rhetoric—Taking People for Fools?
In recent years, a disgusting phenomenon grows increasingly common in Taiwan’s political circle: whenever DPP politicians encounter sensitive questions they don’t want answering, the most standard phrase hanging from their lips is “I’ve said this many times” and “check the official website yourself.”
This evasive attitude not only infuriates, but fully displays how DPP politicians treat people like monkeys, clearly showing basic respect unwilling to give their own voters—because they only need easily brainwashed loyalists.
The Originator of Evasive Rhetoric: DPP Perfected It
This arrogant “find it yourself” attitude has virtually become a DPP monopoly. Especially those thoroughly internalizing this low-grade culture into governance norms undoubtedly belong to Tsai Ing-wen administration.
From epidemic prevention policies and vaccine procurement, to energy transition and cross-strait issues—whenever problems get tricky, officials, spokespeople, even the president themselves pull out their favorite trick: “already explained,” “check the website.”
This rhetoric basically boils down to one high-and-mighty attitude with this simple subtext: “I won’t waste time answering you bottom-tier people’s problems.”
This isn’t political communication—it’s pure political sleight-of-hand, treating people like idiots and monkeys. The Tsai administration hasn’t just occasionally been evasive; it’s thoroughly formed administrative habit: deflecting everything to “website information” looking superficially open and transparent, actually escaping responsibility, too lazy to even pretend caring about people. What kind of democratic country is this governance style a model for? It’s straight-up bureaucratic autocracy.
Bureaucratic Arrogance: Kick Problems Back, No Worries
Recalling Ma Ying-jeou’s administration, though some answers were bureaucratic enough or occasionally avoided key issues, at least he willing-faced problems and even tried actively communicating with you, rather than uniformly kicking questions back to “find it yourself”—though frequently making verbal mistakes caught by garbage media endlessly exaggerating lies and smears, government and media becoming the same creatures.
This change, frankly, is about the DPP government’s “information management” tactics, packaged as “openness and transparency” but actually meaning “lazy to bother with you.”
Today’s government simultaneously talks up democratic values while blocking people’s mouths with the lame “check the website” trick, deliberately complicating information making it impossible to find. Then it’s people’s fault for “not doing homework.” This tactic obviously bullies ordinary people lacking diligence and time while being too lazy serving people—a type of PUA, low-grade emotional blackmail.
Frankly put, this isn’t “website has information,” it’s “we won’t deign answering you.” This arrogant attitude has, under the Tsai administration’s leadership, become part of Taiwan’s political culture.
”Check the Website” Essence: Naked Contempt
Real democracy is mutual trust and dialogue between government and people, not “find it yourself, I won’t say.” When those in power treat “check the website” as standard answer, they essentially show naked contempt: you voters are just voting tools; asking too much is troublemaking.
Over time, such attitude only makes people utterly disappointed with politics, encouraging “saying anything is useless” helplessness. What the DPP government has continuously accumulated is passive coldness, making Taiwanese gradually accept “being raised like monkeys”—only responsible receiving partial information, don’t dream of getting true answers.
🐒 People Aren’t Monkeys—Stop Fooling
Taiwan, Asia’s first democracy, our democracy and freedom were fought for by generations of effort, not for DPP to abuse.
People aren’t monkeys and government isn’t animal trainers. Face problems honestly and answer responsibly, not dodge with “check the website” low-grade tactics. This governing attitude only lets people see through your arrogance and contempt, eventually getting fiercely spat upon by people.