Fickle love, lack of vision
In a dramatic gesture on March 13, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chen (
The KMT does not long for democracy, nor for freedom for the people. It believes it knows best for everyone, and to be certain, it knows how to line its pockets. It does not yearn for Taiwan to be free, it yearns to be in power.
The fickle love for Taiwan that Lien and Soong have is the love one has for something one can control completely.
[Lien and Soong, your love for Taiwan] is the love for your business that brings so much money to you. It is the love for a game that you always win. It is the love for an idea that is yours alone, a possession that only you have, a one-of-a-kind bauble that is in your vault. It is the love for an adherent that puts you on a pedestal, exalting you above all else. It is love for the feeling of unbridled power.
It is not the love of the idea of freedom and democracy. It is not the love of an independent nation, an economic power among nations, a nation of freedom among nations, a nation of free Taiwanese people. It is not a love for a nation of equality and vision, of spirit and vitality, a symbol of liberty for all in the world to marvel at.
Their vision is a submissive Taiwan, a part of a greater China, in some less-than-sovereign form, a servant of China. They see themselves as the rulers of a special administrative region of the world's most populous nation (despite the awful experience of Hong Kong, which has a contract for democracy that Beijing has already torn up). They somehow believe this is better than a free Taiwan.
Lien has no vision. His vision for Taiwan, as he has stated, is to leave the vision for other generations. His platform is actually to have no platform. His approach to Taiwan's position in the world is to have no position. How pathetic. How truly pathetic.
How can anyone in Taiwan, other than die-hard KMT supporters who would themselves benefit from the return of "black-gold" politics -- those who would subjugate the true Taiwanese people -- vote for a man who has proclaimed that he deliberately has no vision for the future of Taiwan?
His only vision is money, at any cost. He promises oodles and oodles of money -- hmmm ... wonder what he intends to sell? Taiwan, maybe?
Lee Long-hwa
United States
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