President Tsai Is Loaded with Powers, Yet Still Assigns Blame to the KMT

 President Tsai Is Loaded with Powers, Yet Still Assigns Blame to the KMT

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

November 12, 2018

 Translation of an Excerpt

As the election day is around the corner, the DPP’s campaign is encountering difficulties with smoke signals everywhere; the maladministration at the central level, moreover, has become a target of accusations. Witnessing that its election prospects can hardly turn over, President Tsai lowered her profile a bit and apologized to “some friends who have suffered losses, making their livelihoods more difficult" because of inadequate policy planning, and also apologized for "offending some people because of reforms" and for "making people feel depressed." However, she then turned around, immediately playing the reunification-independence card, lambasting the KMT, asking how the anti-reform KMT could “level accusations against the DPP”; she then asked the people to support the "political party that safeguards Taiwan values" and fend off the invasion of "external forces."

The DPP until now has not thought through why Kaohsiung, where “fielding a watermelon could get elected," has become a tinderbox of the people's uprising. Han Kuo-yu was able to churn up a wave, forming a seemingly invincible "Han Kuo-yu vogue" because he touched the hearts of the voters, creating a resonance among the voters with respect to the "economy in the doldrums" and the "phenomenon of moving north." Shop front upon shop front with for rent ads and ubiquitous claw machines are not special phenomena of Kaohsiung. Life is difficult for the grassroots, bountiful harvests of fruits and vegetables, however, make difficult days for farmers; this is the result of "politics rules supreme" under the DPP administration. The masses have had enough; if they do not use this election to vent their ire, using the ballots to make the DPP change its ways, until when do the people have to be supressed by the DPP?

In addition to the changing of tune in the economy and the shuttering of businesses, the instances of failures in the DPP's policies are too numerous to cite. The bothering difficulties caused by "one fixed holiday, one flexible day-off" have not been resolved till today; the flip-flopping environmental protection policies make factory operators and the public complain in unison. The "blocking Kuan Chung-ming” case will soon be one year old, yet President Tsai would rather leave education policy in a state of decay and is determined not let someone whom she does not like take office. “The Office on Dwindling Child Birth” has only a name plaque with no countermeasures; childcare and elderly-care have left only a slogan of "rendering service for reward in this life or the next [according to Buddhist teachings]," but people do not see a practicable plan from the government. Among the high echelon officials of the Tsai government, one was self-styled “Dongchang” [a Ming Dynasty secret police organization equivalent to the modern day Gestapo]; one was exposed as a “cell phone peeping Tom”; one leveled accusations against the media, but none engaged in soul-searching. Precisely because of this arrogance of power, it has made "the Party Despising the DPP" become the "biggest political party." These skyrocketing waves of popular grievances are the products designed and manufactured by the DPP government itself; how could the KMT have the capacity to aid and abet?

The people are too familiar with these old gimmicks of DPP. The masses are fed up with political verbiage; they can no longer endure the mythology of reform, and no longer endure the sufferings of economic depression. The DPP could only wait to be devoured by the tsunami called vox populi!

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