A former left-wing activist, whose name is Kan, became the 94th Japanese Prime Minister. I had thought all the while that democracy is the best system of government, but I knew it was wrong. Democracy requires the condition that people must be wise enough to determine their own leaders. The present ruling party in Japan showed their political manifest last year. The party declared they would make the expressway toll free, provide 26,000 yen a month per child to every household and make high schools free not showing any secure fiscal resource. Lots of people took their propaganda at face value and gave birth to the Hatoyama administration. Mr. Hatoyama hasn't done anything good for Japan until the last minute. Besides, the person who was elected next was Mr. Kan, who had asked the South Korean government to forgive Shin Gwang-soo (신광수) who was arrested for having abducted some Japanese people. He should be called a North Korean politician, not a Japanese one.
He never sings the national anthem of Japan. Can you imagine that the top official of the country refuses to sing the national anthem? He seems to dislike Japan in spite of being the Prime Minister. Mr. Kan is such a person.
I recalled Carthage which used to be the most prosperous country in the world. Carthaginians disliked and expelled Hannibal from the country with their shallow consideration and consequently they were expelled from the globe.
- (Vocabulary)
- mobocracy 衆愚(愚民)政治
- system of government 政体
- all the while ずっと
- fiscal/financial resource 財源
- fiscal 国家歳入の, 国庫の, 財政上の
- take [accept] ~ at face value 真に受ける
- Carthage カルタゴ
- Carthaginian カルタゴ人
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