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Taiwan's 2024 general election is approaching day by day, and various groups of Taiwanese leadership candidates are making final mobilizations.
They all thought that the general election had reached this stage, and all the cards that all parties could play had been almost played, but they did not expect the Kuomintang to suddenly make a new move.
(Hou Kang's campaign on January 8)
At the campaign on January 8, Hou Kangpei suddenly played the emotional card, shouting that he must win on January 13 and "be worthy of Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo."
This trick is indeed unexpected, you must know that Taiwanese society is actually a bit abusive, and it has always been useful to play the emotional card, not to mention that Chiang Ching-kuo is indeed missed by today's Taiwanese people.
Neither other parties on the island of Taiwan nor the mainland have spoken out about the KMT's miraculous move, but they do not know whether this "emotional card" can really help the KMT reverse its declining trend.
The Kuomintang played the emotional card
As Taiwan's general election approaches day by day, candidates of various parties have come up with their own tricks in the hope of winning more popular support.
Judging from the opinion polls, it is the DPP that is superior.
Until the evening of January 2, the 2024 Taiwan general election poll was closed, and the DPP still maintained its lead.
(Taiwan Customs Closure Poll)
The Kuomintang also felt the crisis, and they have been hoping that Guo Taiming can come forward to support them and let Guo Taiming's supporters vote for Hou Kangpei to save the decline.
However, Guo has never shown up, and in the absence of certainty whether Guo will speak out before the last moment, the KMT can only find another way.
Not to mention, this time they really found a new breakthrough, that is, to use the election day, January 13, which is the death day of former Kuomintang leader Chiang Ching-kuo, to play the "emotional card" against the Taiwan people.
At the January 8 campaign, Hou Youyi, after criticizing the DPP as usual and preaching his own governing policy, used Chiang Ching-kuo's words when calling on his supporters to help canvass for votes: "If you don't do it today, you will regret it tomorrow."
He also shouted that he must win on January 13, otherwise he will be sorry for Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo.
Hou Youyi's words came out, and many people realized that January 13 was also the day of Chiang Ching-kuo's death.
(On January 8, Hou Kang built a momentum)
Hou Youyi's shouting is undoubtedly taking advantage of the Taiwan people's nostalgia for Chiang Ching-kuo and playing the "emotional card" against the people.
In fact, the "emotional card" is also a common strategy for Taiwan's political competition, but it is good to be useful.
Due to Taiwan's political system and political culture, Taiwan's politics has a very serious tendency to become emotional.
Taiwan has implemented a multi-party system, which has led to fierce political competition in Taiwan, and at the same time, Taiwan has also lacked rational political discussion and political education, resulting in very shallow and blind political participation of the Taiwan people.
As a result, Taiwan's election is easily swayed by emotional factors, and the emotional spread of Taiwan's media has further amplified this influence.
Due to the fierce competition in the commercialization of Taiwan's media market, most of Taiwan's media pursue eyeballs and profits, but Taiwan's media norms are very loose and imperfect, resulting in a lack of fairness and responsibility, and a lack of depth and quality in their programs.
(Taiwan's election is full of emotional cards)
These factors make Taiwan's media very emotional and non-professional, and it is easy to disseminate and amplify the effect of the emotional card.
The "emotional card" is so easy to use that all parties in Taiwan will certainly not give up when they run elections, and it is not so surprising that the Kuomintang has used this trick this time.
The people of Taiwan miss Chiang Ching-kuo
During the 13 years that Chiang Ching-kuo was in power in Taiwan, he made great contributions to Taiwan in two aspects, one was to promote Taiwan's economic development, and the other was to promote Taiwan's political reform.
It should be said that when he took over Taiwan, the situation facing Taiwan was very grim, but Chiang Ching-kuo led Taiwan to create an economic miracle in the midst of difficulties.
He adopted a series of measures, such as the implementation of the Ten Major Constructions, the promotion of export-oriented industrialization, the introduction of foreign capital and technology, the improvement of education and human resources, and the establishment of a social welfare system, which made Taiwan one of the four Asian tigers.
(Asian Tigers)
Along with economic development and the improvement of social welfare, the living standards and happiness of the people of Taiwan have been greatly improved.
At the same time, Chiang Ching-kuo also realized that the backwardness and undemocracy of Taiwan's political system had caused popular dissatisfaction, and during his tenure, he promoted Taiwan's political democratization and reform.
He abolished martial law in 1986, allowed opposition parties to be formed, opened up the press and freedom of speech, instituted re-elections to the National Assembly, and prepared direct elections for those in power, laying the foundation for Taiwan's democratization process.
Moreover, the government during the Chiang Ching-kuo period was mostly people-oriented in its policies, and compared with the frequent cases in Taiwan today, during the Chiang Ching-kuo administration, many high-ranking officials in Taiwan were honest and upright, and sincerely worked for Taiwan's interests.
Even Chiang Ching-kuo invested the huge inheritance he inherited from Chiang Kai-shek into the construction of Taiwan, but he and his family lived simply.
(Chiang Ching-kuo)
In fact, during Chiang Ching-kuo's lifetime, Taiwan's reputation for him was not so good, and many people thought that Chiang Ching-kuo was a "dictatorship".
In fact, he is indeed a dictator, and he has also tried to train his son to succeed him, and in the end he chose democracy purely out of desperation.
However, when the people of Taiwan see the current situation of Taiwan's political chaos and stagnation of social development, and then compare it with it, they will find that Chiang Ching-kuo's political achievements and leadership are far better than those of the current leaders.
They believe that Chiang Ching-kuo is a visionary and capable leader who can lead Taiwan to prosperity and stability, while the current leader is short-sighted and incompetent, and will only create division and crisis.
In such a contrast, after Chiang Ching-kuo's death, the Taiwanese people's recognition of him has increased dramatically.
So much so that when the Kuomintang used Chiang Ching-kuo to play the "emotional card", neither the DPP nor the People's Party attacked it, because they both knew that attacking Chiang Ching-kuo might instead lower their own support, so it was better not to speak and hope to downplay the impact as much as possible.
The mainland side also did not say anything about the Kuomintang's hand.
Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo made a lot of contributions to promoting cross-strait exchanges during his lifetime, and the mainland also misses him, but because he insisted on not interfering in Taiwan's election, when the Kuomintang linked Chiang Ching-kuo to the election campaign, it was not good for the mainland to speak at this time.
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