Hitler Is Beckoning Taiwan

 Hitler Is Beckoning Taiwan

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

November 19, 2019

 Translation of an Excerpt

"Hitler is beckoning to Taiwan." This of course does not mean that "Adolf Hitler" himself or his specter has arrived in Taiwan, but it refers to the stage script of someone similar to Hitler utilizing the evil tactics of democracy to realize political objectives. If the people of Taiwan could not see through these despicable political approaches, mistakenly taking a smiling monkey with a sheepskin as a meek and lovely sheep, they would quickly become subjects of Germany under the rule of Hitler, regretting in the end, but too late.

People might doubt that today’s Taiwan, under the rule of the Tsai government, though with rampant political patronage and abuses of power, should still be a democratic society, which after all could not be compared with Germany under Hitler. In fact, a democratic system relies on the esteem of the participants and self-restraint; otherwise, various kinds of distortions and abuses would erode the democratic spirit, leaving it in an empty shell. The original spirit of Taiwan’s evolving democratic system has long been hollowed out, step by step, by the Tsai government, devoid of democratic culture.

The democratic system relies on the separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers, with checks and balances amongst them, plus the preservative represented by the oversight of the media and public opinion. However, in its three and a half years of governance, President Tsai, nevertheless, has blatantly, through the grasp of the Supreme Court, the Grand Justices and the Central Election Commission, firmly controlled “judicial power” in her hand. In addition, through various types of monetary means, the absolute majority of important media outlets have been one-sidedly slanted towards the ruling party, all day long scrutinizing and criticizing the opposition parties in violation of the normal state of democracy, causing the virtual “succumbing” of the media.

Because the Tsai government’s massive electioneering practices through issuing “attractive policies” have befuddled the vision of Taiwan people, hallucinating Taiwan people’s choices, just like Hitler’s march toward dictatorship, the general public, once with a wavering heart and mind, are bought by these short-sighted policies, and elect a president and majority of legislators of DPP affiliation, then the DPP will take a further step to firmly grasp the Executive Yuan and the legislative power, then the so-called "four powers of democracy" will entirely belong to the DPP. According to the experiences of the past few years, the DPP will substantively terminate Taiwan’s democratic system.

Taiwan is now situated in a critical moment: Are we going to allow President Tsai and the DPP to further grasp the executive and legislative powers, and then, through various chilling effects, allow the natural duty of oversight on the part of the opposition parties to encounter suppression and withering, creating one-party rule, or should we make President Tsai step down, allowing cross-Strait exchanges and reconciliation, thus winning the opportunity for mutual respect and joint development?

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