Experts’ View/Are “ocean currents” turbulent currents created by the state machine?

Democratic Progressive Party taipei mayor candidateshen boyang The Democratic Progressive Party is devoting all the party’s efforts and using all its power to change its image; This completely transformed Shen from a staunch anti-China guarantor and an “alien” politician from the Black Bear Academy who formed an armed militia and turned into a warm-hearted person wearing a pro-people floral shirt and a silly smile; It successfully portrayed him as a candidate for mayor of Beijing city with strong governance abilities, and even gave him the name “Ocean Current”, which is like “creating God”.

Therefore, all parties have highly evaluated his character, capability and governance performance.xiang wannan Contesting elections again is a big challenge and pressure. People from all walks of life have commented that the “ocean current” is not a stratospheric effect and has broken the cycle. It also bears a Golden Cross in recognition of Chiang Wannan’s support. On October 20, another well-known but controversial pollster ignored sampling bias and insisted that Shen was two points behind Kang Jiang and now won by 17 percentage points, thereby casting a halo on Shen Boyang, the “god” of the DPP.

Things must have reached their peak, and Shen Boyang, who had turned into a god, began to be strictly tested by the outside world. Which bills has he proposed after becoming MLA? What benefits are we seeking for Taipei City? Some people have raised questions; Everyone has also questioned his honesty. Things like his “death penalty” approval and drug distribution have come to light, which has become a major test of his personality! Shen’s camp questioned Chiang Wan’an’s procrastination in asking A and B questions on municipal issues, which expanded to denying Chiang’s governing ability so as to prevent him from being re-elected and winning the election. As it has developed to the present day, attacks and doubts from Shen’s camp have also become a yardstick used by those who do not support Shen to test Shen.

There is still more than a month and a few days until election voting takes place on November 28. It can be predicted that Shen Boyang will definitely fall from the status of “god” in the human world and restore his mortal appearance. If Shen Boyang loses in the end, it will prove that in a true democratic society, using the state machinery to create gods and engage in “personality worship” cannot deceive the voters’ wisdom.

However, in the process of “making God” for Shen Boyang, the state apparatus also exposed the “turmoil” in Taiwanese society as it moves toward a truly democratic society. The first “disturbance” is that Shen Boyang is in the process of being shaped and packaged as a “god”. They are generally regarded as the social elite, such as media hosts. It seems that he is following Shen’s “deification”, as if he is haunted, thinking that what Shen said “”every sentence is true.”

For example, the media host was eager to give Shen a score, and Zhao Shaokang gave him a score of 7 or 8. This is definitely an “support”. Media is a public instrument of society and the gatekeeper of democracy and freedom. It is best to avoid such acts of endorsement, characterization, and tone-setting. This is why some people in the blue camp are trying their best to attack Zhao.

As for the media hosts, they all commented that Shane “came prepared.” The main thing is that he wants to go to the media. Of course, his campaign team should help him get “ready.” But this is actually the case, which actually shows that the media rushed to interview Shane, who was more or less “ready” to get some readings, but they were not completely ready. For example, when talking about the 1999 citizen hotline, Shen criticized Bei City for not comprehensively classifying citizens’ opinions. In fact, the city government outsourced research on the 1999 data and drew some conclusions. It should be noted that when government administrative units conduct research, they will need commissioned scholars and experts to put forward policy implementation suggestions in the findings report. Shen denied that the 1999 information was not comprehensive and centralized, and also denied the efforts of the commissioned research team.

So, of course Shen took the opportunity to promote his “Taipei Research Institute” and proved that he has a great idea. However, the city government has always thought of turning Taipei City University into a think tank, the brain of the city government. Is it a practical idea to establish a Taipei Research Institute instead of using Taipei City University? Or want to develop your own army? It’s a pity that the media didn’t do their homework properly before interviewing Shane. To be good gatekeepers of a democratic society, they should prepare all the material in advance and cross-examine the person being interviewed.

In this process of treating Shen as “God”, there is another crisis in the democratic society, that is, the intellectuals also follow the same and dance according to their own will. Intellectuals are the mainstay of the society. They must have some evidence and some words to say. However, after Shen Boyang was “deified”, a well-known National University scholar wrote an article in the online media, lamenting that Jiang Wannan has not made anything known to the citizens of Taipei in the past four years.

The author was curious. Could it be that from Chiang to the Taipei City Government, there are approximately 30,000 people working in the Taipei City Government. For the past almost four years, they have been doing nothing every day, sitting and waiting for New Taiwan Dollars/”sitting and waiting for coins”? Out of curiosity, I asked Al: What has Chiang Wannan done in the last four years to be considered successful? Al quickly reported: the Arena opened, the contract to start the MRT Circular Line was signed, the metropolitan area was updated with 8 arrows to speed up the metropolitan area, and Taipei City was the third city to issue “green bonds” after Kaohsiung City and Taoyuan City. Readers who are interested can ask Al for more information.

Al will also tell you that municipalities like the above require very good communication and coordination skills, government collaboration skills, resource mobilization abilities, and planning and execution capabilities. These are the hard, soft and smart skills that the mayor and the city government team must possess. Therefore, AI will confirm the capabilities of Jiang and the city government team.

As intellectuals, scholars and experts must study carefully, think carefully, reason clearly, present facts and argue. How can we see a God-man in the making and conclude that the rival of this false God is worthless? While discussing the shortcomings of traditional liberal politics, the new pluralism of political science advocates that Confucianism requires professional scholars to intervene to mediate between elites and the masses. Scholars and experts are more reserved about personal preferences and easily take sides.

Taiwanese people are kind by nature, so they respect heaven and earth and are afraid of ghosts and gods; The state machinery and the media and those under its control use God-making methods to win elections. Toxic and lonely men disguised as hot men. Can they really win the election? Is this another kind of “Light of Taiwan”?