Chapter 25 5. Who still worships this senior "wage earner"?

After the end of World War II, the socialist camp gradually began to take shape.Examining the politics of all socialist countries, their common characteristics can be summarized into several points, the most basic of which is the cult of personality. The phenomenon of cult of personality in the history of human beings was originally only an early religious phenomenon.It is something that early royal politics hoped to achieve but has been difficult to achieve.In many countries religion is almost as old as kingship.China is also such a country.Therefore, religion and kingship have equally won the loyalty of mankind in their own different ways in the long course of history.

The way kingship wins people's hearts is by promising real benefits, that is, prosperity and wealth. The way religion wins people's hearts is the soul's sustenance, that is, heaven. Kingship is a real thing.The rule of kingship demands faithful and uncompromising service.When an old man swears loyalty to the king, the oath is roughly the same, willing to go through fire and water for it until he dies for it. Religion is an illusion.The domination of religion demands that man voluntarily ascribe his soul to it.When an old man converts to a religion, the vows are roughly the same. Loyalty can belong to anyone, such as the emperor, master, friend, and love, but faith only belongs to religion.

Where there is faith, there is worship. Therefore, when there is a conflict between loyalty and faith, a person has only three choices—either to fulfill the oath of loyalty, and at this time his soul betrays the faith, and it is difficult to enter heaven after death.Unless he later repents deeply and obtains religious forgiveness.Either take into account the faith, that is, maintain the principle of the soul.At this time, he will offend the royal authority, and will lose the real benefits given to him by the royal authority.It may even be regarded as rebellious by the royal power and beheaded.Or choose suicide.

In human history, there have been many conflicts between religion and kingship.But in the end, no one can conquer anyone, and every time it ends with mutual compromise and concessions.So religion and kingship take advantage of each other in a new honeymoon period.The representative of kingship is an example of pious believers; religion declares that he is not only the king, but also the most trusted son of religion.When religion admits that people's loyalty to kingship is also fully consistent with the teaching, kingship encourages people's devotion to religion. Therefore, in many countries, people in previous centuries shouted both "Long live the King" and "Long live the Pope".But in general, religion is always a little more otherworldly than kingship.It is pleased with people's worship, but it does not want to hear the word "long live".Because religion is eternal.Only in the religious crusade war did the saints who fought for religion shout that much.

In the socialist countries that were born half a century ago, religion is almost always restricted or even outlawed.Faith then has only one content left, and that is political thought.It is easy for powerful political propaganda to religiousize political ideas.Therefore, the religious political and ideological leaders who transcend the democratic system naturally have the color of religious leaders.Once the politicians are in the supreme position close to the religious leaders, the modern personality cult phenomenon of human beings will inevitably occur.Subjectivity and objectivity delight each other at this point; at this point religious faith in disguise and royal loyalty in disguise merge into one.

After the disintegration of the socialist camp, the political characteristics of some other countries in the world became distinct.Among them, the political characteristics of the United States are the most prominent. The United States is the first country in the world that has no trace of royal rule in its history.Therefore, from the first generation of Americans to contemporary Americans, no one has shouted "Long live the king".Americans who have never shouted "Long live the king" certainly will never get used to shouting "Long live the president".The short history of the United States has given it too little time to form the roots of its own religious tradition.Although there are churches in many cities and villages, some Americans have a religious devotion that their immigrant ancestors brought to the United States from other countries.Therefore, a hundred years ago, the British and the French scornfully satirized Americans as "Americans without faith" or "Americans who only worship money".

Americans are certainly not without faith.Their faith is democracy and law.Their belief in democracy and law is more firm than belief in any religion.This premise determines such an American reality—contemporary American youth who have undergone several generations of democratic and legal education have a variety of personality cults in their minds, some are healthy, some are unhealthy, and some are pathological.All in all, almost all of them are youthful personality cults that have nothing to do with ideology and belief.There are many people who worship, but there are very few people who worship the president.

Decades ago, when Dulles’ grandson was in elementary school, he came home one day and asked his mother excitedly: “Mom, why didn’t you tell me that my grandfather was president? !" His mother said calmly, "What are you excited about? There's really nothing to be excited about. Isn't it common for a president to be elected every four years since the birth of the United States?" This is the typical American view of the president.Generations of Americans have passed on this sense of common sense to the next generation.Therefore, the President of the United States is such a figure in the eyes of Americans - the highest-ranking "wage earner" in the United States, and the American public is his boss.Any most ordinary American has the obligation to comment on and monitor his performance as president, and has the right to accuse him of being competent or incompetent.It is an obligation to supervise the president, and it is a right to criticize the president. The political characteristics of the United States make the public characteristics of the United States extremely prominent.Probably no American would think so—once one of his compatriots becomes the president, he will be the spiritual father or intellectual father of the American people as a matter of course.In the history of the United States, there have been several outstanding figures who can be regarded as the father of spirit or father of thought.But none of them had the idea of ​​being president, and the American public certainly never elected them.

Because the United States is the most powerful country in the world, the "big boss" of the American public treats the President of the United States, who is also the most senior "wage earner" in the world, very superior treatment, second only to the kings of some oil countries .Because the United States is the most powerful country in the world, once an American becomes the president, he will naturally become the center of the world political stage.These are given to the President of the United States by the Americans.Americans see it that way.Because if they don't trust him and don't choose him, he won't get it.Therefore, Americans have the same attitude towards any American president-ready to withdraw their trust at any time.

However, in the nearly half century of American history, there seems to be no American president who has been impeached and stepped down. The "Watergate Incident" 26 years ago forced Nixon to choose to resign.The predicament that Nixon was in was very different from the predicament that Clinton is in today. "Watergate" is a purely political scandal rather than a "peach scandal".It seems that there has never been a president in the history of the United States who was forced to step down because of the "peach scandal" during his tenure. Kennedy is still the youngest handsome president in American history.Although there were rumors of scandals during his lifetime, his personal relationship with Monroe was widely disclosed to the society around the confusing cause of Monroe's death after he was assassinated. The topic of "sex" was not the focus of news commentary at that time.

Compared with Clinton, it seems that even Kennedy was lucky.Kennedy was at a time when the world was politicizing.He is the youngest spokesman for American politics, and thus has received political admiration from many American youths.His handsome demeanor has also fascinated many young American women.What Kennedy obtained during his lifetime was what Clinton wanted to obtain and could not obtain during his lifetime.What Kennedy got after his death will be doomed to miss Clinton even more. In my opinion, Clinton is a president second only to Kennedy in terms of handsomeness.The "mistakes" he made can only be avoided by a handsome president who needs extremely rare self-discipline.He's clearly not doing that amazingly well. When he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination six years ago, rumors of an affair with a woman named Jennifer Flower nearly killed his candidacy.Two years ago, Paula Jones accused him of "sexual harassment" of her when he was governor of Arkansas.The so-called unrest, another wave.The previous two cases were property blackmail or political attacks in the competition; but this time, an independent prosecutor named Starr firmly nailed it down. Is independent prosecutor Starr deliberately retaliating, "catching a little, not as much as the rest"?Does Lewinsky's girlfriend's behavior violate the general morality?Is online self-employed Matt Draghi a guy who wants to be famous and not care about anyone else?Is American justice making a fuss?Whether there is a political manipulation behind certain news offensives that intends to put Clinton in an irreversible situation - people in the world are not very interested in these, what seems to be interested is only such an indisputable fact - a contemporary American president A middle-aged man, because of a 21-year-old girl with an ordinary appearance, suffered a lot. How will he end up? The news media and the big cultural "industry" all over the world actually show a certain vulgar tendency.The tendency is both vulgar and modern.The contemporary people fed by it seem to have lost their thinking about many things, and only want news, news, news!Just like a child suffering from hunger disease, he opened his mouth wide and kept yelling "Eat it! Eat it!" And, more and more, he prefers irritating food. An American friend of mine put it this way: "The endlessness of this incident makes me feel sorry for Clinton. Hasn't he already publicly repented?" Another American friend of mine said: "What a disgrace to Clinton! The woman Kennedy fucked was Monroe, and what kind of woman he fucked! Is the status of the President of the United States so low?" And a young friend of mine who is a Chinese official said: "As far as being an official is concerned, it is obvious that it is better to be in China, although the salary on the salary table is limited!" Politics with American characteristics has always played "suffocating bull" with previous US presidents.The best result of American presidents is nothing more than a draw.If you make a mistake, you will be ruined.They will never try to manipulate politics with American characteristics.They are always the object of political manipulation of that character.Even if they are outstanding and great, they are all played under this premise. Politics with American characteristics is supported by Americans, Americans can afford it, they play it with ease, and they have never lost.It will always be the presidents of the United States who lose because they can't play well.Politics with American characteristics has never cared about any president as a price. This is America! The world's big players playing the president - attracting the attention of the world...