Punishment for Popularity
Yesterday, a new cabinet was formed in Japan.
One remarkable aspect is that they intended to reinforce functions of aids to the prime minister.
Their purpose is to introduce a strong team of professional assistants to the prime minister office like the one in the White House.
My impression is that such a move seems to be aimed at gaining popularity among the people rather than truly enhancing functions of the Japanese Government.
Four of five aids to the prime minister, who have been newly appointed, are incumbent members of the Diet (parliament). They are more politicians than professionals. They might also work for gaining their own popularity.
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Democracy gives politicians and their party an incentive of using anything for enhancing their popularity and securing plurality voting.
A politician might even use a war for such a purpose.
It is truly an outrageous act if a war is so used.
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If you are a politician and are not involved in such movement for gaining popularity of a government through using something serious and critical like a war, you must be lucky, since such an act might be punished.
To begin with, what a politician needs is love for people but not popularity among the people their false love for people might gain.
"WHEN GOD WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO ATTACK US"