Chief Executive vs. Missionaries
The issue is neither how to choose a leader nor whom to choose.
But, it is as to whether we have a mechanism to save the nation if we choose a wrong leader who might bring a disaster to the people.
You might choose Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin if you have a strong mechanism to stop him when he started to venture to kill an uncountable number of innocent people mainly in order to secure his assets and position or for wahtsoever reasons.
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Vote for a leader, let him carry the nation, and forget about one's own duty to the nation is a very dangerous thing.
You had better try to change a leader as much as possible and as often as possible.
It is at most one year, I suppose, that anybody can do his best at the top of government. In the second year, he must be exhausted too much to carry out his duty if he has been working as he is supposed to be.
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We cannot trust the media too much.
We cannot trust bureaucrats, financial circles, and lawmakers, either.
However, we need trustworthy missionaries by the roadside of society (but not in a church).
They must shout to the people that our leader is a Hitler or a Stalin, if necessary.
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As the Diet session in Japan was over, now political focus is on who will succeed the incumbent prime minister, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, this fall.
Whoever will accede to the highest post of the Japanese Government through democratic process, we had better prepare as many missionaries as possible who can be mobilized in case.
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For people outside Japan, you had better regard future Japanese prime minister as a symbol of the Government.
It is also a Japanese tradition that a decisive power is in the hand of a top's surrogate's surrogate.
Of course, a poor man like me has to also act as his own surrogate's surrogate.
"MAKE A STRAIGHT PATH FOR THE LORD TO TRAVEL"