tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post4874660602895240011..comments2023-10-09T00:45:55.603+09:00Comments on Shisaku: A New Union Of Forces Of The LeftMTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-58559907211530702912012-11-30T10:03:39.052+09:002012-11-30T10:03:39.052+09:00Bryce -
If memory serves, changing Hatoyama Yukio...Bryce -<br /><br />If memory serves, changing Hatoyama Yukio's mind takes no power at all.MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-70405816751380531152012-11-29T11:23:17.831+09:002012-11-29T11:23:17.831+09:00鳩山氏は「日本未来の党の考え方こそ本来の民主党の原点の発想だ」と絶賛。
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「なぜ鳩山も...鳩山氏は「日本未来の党の考え方こそ本来の民主党の原点の発想だ」と絶賛。<br /><br />See? <br /><br />「なぜ鳩山も新しい流れに合流しないんだと思いますよね」と聴衆に語りかけると、大きな拍手がわき起こり「拍手をいただくと、その誘惑はたいへん強い」と述べ、衆院選出馬への意欲を見せた。<br /><br />I'm not sure possessing the power to make Hatoyama consider changing his mind is something the party should brag about, however.Brycenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-46037041417301637552012-11-28T19:23:30.827+09:002012-11-28T19:23:30.827+09:00But to be fair, if you forget about nuclear power ...But to be fair, if you forget about nuclear power and foreign policy for a moment, the greater participation for women in the workforce and a focus on lifestyle improvement feature prominently as party goals. And the way Kada is presenting her nuclear free policy boils down to lifestyle improvement. Policies focused on improving individual lifestyles (even when they meant less focus on national growth strategies and repaying debt) were the core components of the 2009 manifesto that Ozawa campaigned on and the major concern of his splinter party? Populist, sure. Inconsistent? Not really.<br /><br />Actually, I see the Mirai no to leadership's strong focus on nuclear issues as later potentially problematic for Ozawa. I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to be part of a special interest party, and will probably start advocating a broader agenda than either Kada or Iida.Brycenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-41665791593553074912012-11-28T18:57:13.275+09:002012-11-28T18:57:13.275+09:00As Winston Peters (look him up) once told me: &quo...As Winston Peters (look him up) once told me: "We're all populists! I have never met a politician that does not want to be popular."Brycenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-12869731221738265952012-11-28T18:16:28.275+09:002012-11-28T18:16:28.275+09:00Bryce -
Have you seen the Mirai no To's poli...Bryce - <br /><br />Have you seen the <i>Mirai no To</i>'s policy platform? <i>Hokori no aru gaiko</i>? Do the founders not understand that <i>hokori</i> is the property of the revisionist right?<br /><br />More seriously, the sudden coalescing of a political party out of the anti-nuclear power (or "the graduation out of nuclear power" as the party platform clevely rephrases it) movement represents an unexpected intrusion of truly popular populism, does it not?<br />MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-3975015899488353822012-11-28T17:31:32.544+09:002012-11-28T17:31:32.544+09:00Oh yeah, then there is Komeito. Nobody gets them.Oh yeah, then there is Komeito. Nobody gets them.Brycenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-77879965100791913042012-11-28T17:29:08.309+09:002012-11-28T17:29:08.309+09:00Not sure I agree with you that these groupings are...Not sure I agree with you that these groupings are so incomprehensible--it's just that they are focused more around foreign policy and thought on the national interest. There has always been a rabid element of the LDP that has taken a revisionist view of history and wanted to loosen what they see as the shackles of the US Japan alliance (the restorationists), another bunch of revisionists that see the alliance as a ticket to great power status (the current LDP), and yet another group of LDP economic and foreign policy realists (You thought Hatoyama was only being silly when he referred to the current DPJ as the Noda faction of the LDP). This brand new future party looks to me like a party that finds common cause in stressing Japan's active participation in a liberal international security order--which has been a central tenant of Ozawa's philosophy since the Gulf War--although we'll have to see their manifesto to be sure. Add the socialists and the communists to the mix as eternal anti-US peace nationalists and you have pretty much what I would have expected to see happen had all parties dissolved and reformed along foreign policy lines. Brycenoreply@blogger.com