The election ended with the DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen winning the presidency with 6.89 million votes as the Republic of China’s 14th president. This coincidental number was surprising—it matches exactly with President Ma Ying-jeou’s vote count in his previous presidential election. Afterwards, aside from netizens saying Tsai Ing-wen is Ma Ying-jeou 2.0, they could even say she’s 6.89 2.0—quite amusing.
In order to carry Tsai Ing-wen’s sedan chair, some people closed their mouths and stopped mocking 6.89 million, instead proudly and loudly reminding Tsai Ing-wen of her “election percentage” being very high. This is utter nonsense—two or three million votes vanished into thin air. The percentage wouldn’t be high if it weren’t. Actually, the total votes Tsai Ing-wen received this time only exceeded the last presidential election by 800,000 votes. The DPP’s core voters always existed, plus this time the DPP using all kinds of methods in a devastating campaign, the result was predictable.
Then many people, seeing the opportunity, began criticizing the KMT’s massive defeat. Especially the same group of people criticizing the KMT before the election and criticizing it after. This is also what makes Taiwan’s politics nauseating—these people don’t discuss the Tsai Ing-wen they like, but always attack Tsai Ing-wen the people they hate. Just like they don’t discuss policy before elections, but always defame the character of others.
Criticizing the KMT isn’t necessarily wrong, but are you doing it based on facts, or are you driven by narrow hatred in your heart?
Criticizing the KMT isn’t necessarily wrong, but are you maintaining fair principles in evaluating all political parties?
Just like the pile of people calling Ma Ying-jeou an idiot—back in real life they don’t seem much smarter. And those analyzing why the KMT lost keep evading discussing the commonalities of the DPP. If discussing from a single perspective it’s impossible to explain the essence of phenomena.
The real point is what’s your value when criticizing things, you dummy.
Why can election campaigns only attack negatively? Because you damn people only know how to undermine each other’s walls!
The KMT did lose, but who are you to help them review? If you’re not a KMT member, if you truly hate them, and since they’ve already lost elections, you should start ignoring the KMT, start promoting the DPP’s good points, monitoring the DPP’s behavior. Otherwise you’re just using the KMT as a topic to increase your own sense of existence. (The editor previously thought there’d be fewer complaints after the DPP won, but apparently not—some people would rather keep sacrificing their own values to persecute the KMT.)
Some say the KMT lost due to generational transition, that the KMT is trapped in geriatric politics. Rather I’d say it’s that a group of people’s eyes are blinded by hatred and can’t see that this time the DPP is also a bunch of old people.
The real point is always ability, dummy.
The truth is aside from Time Power relying on harvesting Ke’s stolen issues for votes, anyone wanting to establish firm footing in the political arena must go through considerable time’s experience and training.
Those wanting to enter politics aside from needing to spend their own time, their background must have considerable “cost.” Otherwise how easy is it to exhaust yourself investing all effort in an election of unknown victory or defeat!?
Don’t be stupid—ordinary civilians basically don’t have the qualification. Usually those without background or family wealth who want to enter politics and work for the country end up being the losers (or you’d need a brother without blood relation).
Taking Tsai Ing-wen as example—she was Li Teng-hui’s favorite during his era, after prolonged hibernation through the Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou eras emerging again. These three people were always just puppets under Li Teng-hui’s finger (Ma Ying-jeou somewhat an exception, as he’s more like someone inheriting from the Chiang Ching-kuo era to resist Li Teng-hui).
By the way, isn’t everyone saying after the election they’d start monitoring Tsai Ing-wen? Everyone keep going. (I heard these words after Ke Wen-je was elected, the result was the people who said them were still just busy cursing the KMT.)