1.17.2011

Weak-turning DPP




The weather is cold, temperature is dropping, and people feel chilly and depressed.

It is not reasonable to bash the KMT about the controversial 18% preferential interest rate to retired public servant for their bank deposits. We can't criticize the KMT party for passing the new draft which restores the level. It's not just the KMT's unilateral idea to OK the upward revision, but the DPP seems to follow suit, deliberately aiming to avoid a fierce onslaught on the issue. The DPP has performed in a way more timid and cautious, seemingly tiptoeing on the edge of a cliff. The party itself in recent years has been in a chaotic phase, merely bringing out hollow talk with no action.

The DPP just kept quiet when the rate was passed in July, not turning angry or drawing people to the street for protest. That's because of the fact that the party also has its members working as civil servants. It was worry about a loss in the mayoral elections too. Therefore, a general principle can also apply to the DPP - a political party cares about nothing but its own benefit and political advantage.

Unlike its former founders, the DPP's current politicians are sheepish and widely-divided within the party itself, not able to stave off any event unfavorable to the whole public. There's no more DPP legislator acting like Chu KaoZen when he opposed the KMT's intolerable proposals by fighting violently in the past. Meanwhile, there isn't any DPP-led street protest. French students could show aggressive protest simply for a rise of tuition fee, why can't we?

That's true the DPP owns minority seats in the Legislative Yuan, yet it has other ways including street protest to demonstrate its intention to protect people welfare or a fair system. Even the preferential rate is deemed as outrageous, the KMT has done a good job to favor its supporters. Nothing encouraging appears so far for the DPP to react, except its agitating remarks on the TV political talk shows. By the way, it already forgot to probe the truth behind the gunshot of Lien ShenWen.

Before we call the revision as an unfair affair driven by the KMT, we must blame the DPP for being too weak, silent and gentle. and even worse, for pretending it is innocent and unknown about the resurgent 18% rate. The KMT is lousy and mighty, for sure, yet the DPP is disappointing. Let's just simply put it this way - the KMT is a devil goliath, while the DPP is a chicken now.

Er.....Er...... May God really really bless Taiwan !

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