It has seemed that way to me too, that you are hostile towards all Japanese. If you only blame them for electing him, which is trivial, then I have no problem. Although I think you see it as more than trivial. But you've given me the impression you think all (or most) Japanese are bad people.
I strongly believe that countries should be held responsible for the people they elect. There's far too much of the "I voted for the least ****ty party I thought might win" followed by "Why is the government so ****?"
How's about actually electing someone good in the first place?
And that's not an issue which only affects the Japanese, but pretty much every democratic nation.
I like this. I've been trying to think of something like this. You have to take the rough with the smooth. I think the Japanese won't care about some ranting about something that happened 70 years ago if they think he's the best man for the job of guiding the country through a global recession.
So, would you vote for someone who is a fervent holocaust denier if you agreed with the rest of his policies then?
I tend to believe that there are some views so out of line with any kind of sensible thinking that even if I seem to agree with the rest of the guy's policies, I suspect I'm being tricked.
I've never thought anyone worthy of a vote. Nor anyone particularly less bad than the competition. I've only ever voted once, and I voted for the one I thought would win, to block a particularly bad candidate for my local MP from winning. How can you vote for a good candidate if there isn't one? I would vote for someone if I thought they were the best though, even if I thought they had no chance of winning, they would have earned my vote, and I wouldn't deny them it.
It's a good point, but yes, I'd vote for the Holocaust denier. If everything else they were saying was perfect sense, it could be okay. Someone could have just got to them with some conspiracy stuff. All it might take is some dismantling of the garbage they'd been fed to set them right.
Or they might never speak of it. Some people have skeletons rattling around in their closets, but we only know because the opposition unearthed them, and otherwise they are not spoken of.
But even if they did insist on airing their views, it would be sickeningly embarrassing, but nothing more, if the candidate otherwise did a good job of running the country. At the end of the day they're there to do a job, and you want the best person for that job. And if they were the best person for the job, then they should be in the job.
