Chapter 54 The results of the two elections were completely opposite
I think Japan entered the period of "IQ decline" when the Koizumi cabinet came to power.There are two election results that can prove this point. One is the "postal election" in September 2005 where the Liberal Democratic Party won a historic victory; the other is the "pension election" in 2007.
In July 2007, in the Senate election, the Liberal Democratic Party was defeated.
While the defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party was somewhat predictable, it was a surprise to get only 37 seats (64 seats before the re-election); while the Democratic Party made great progress, winning 60 seats.The Liberal Democratic Party's position as the largest party in the Senate for many years was finally shaken, and the National Assembly became a "distorted parliament". By 2008, the harmfulness of this situation began to appear, and Japanese politics entered a state of stagnation.
Here, I want to seriously think about it no matter what. In these two elections, why did "public opinion" change so much?Has there been any change in the position of the opposition party?
First of all, the Senate election on September 11, 2005, known as the "postal election", was not so much an election to select candidates as an election aimed at investigating Koizumi's public opinion.The postal privatization proposal put forward by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi under the slogan of "political life" was approved by the House of Representatives, but not in the Senate.Thus, this incredible election turned into an election to investigate whether to support the privatization of the postal service and whether to support Koizumi.
However, with regard to postal privatization, no one finally figured out what its core problem is.
Why?Because compared with them, the media is more willing to publish simple and sensational reports such as "Assassin", "Kundti", "Yes or No to reform".
In fact, the issue of postal privatization is not a big political issue. There are so many other issues that need to be resolved in Japan. It is probably not what the media should do to make it the focus of debate.However, the media's attention to Koizumi is on topics such as "those who oppose reform are all resistance forces", and issues such as "assassin candidates" have almost reached the level of flocking.
Media reports misled the public into thinking that the privatization of the postal service was a major matter for the country, and Koizumi had to resort to cruel tactics to dissolve the House of Representatives, but he was well received by the public, who believed that he was "resolute" and "like a man", and the Liberal Democratic Party won the Far more than half of the 296 seats.Since then, the operating conditions of the companies that undertook the privatization of the postal service have been very bad. In the end, even these companies have no idea who they are running for and what they are running.
Then, in less than two years, the Japanese nationals abandoned the LDP entirely.At that time, it was the issue of pensions that caused controversy. Therefore, in the Senate election in July 2007, there was a strong "opinion poll" tendency. This time, the Democratic Party won a big victory in the election.
A question arises here, why are these two "opinion surveys" conducted around those in power?This again leads to the following problem.
For such a problem, the starting point for my analysis has been mentioned in the previous chapters.When it comes to the "decline of IQ" of the Japanese, especially the "decline of collective IQ", it has been fully manifested in such voting behavior and political behavior.
So in this chapter, I mainly want to talk about my point of view based on "Japanese political behavior".
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