Ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi on track to become Japan’s first female prime minister
Ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi on track to become Japan’s first female prime minister | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Like MORE ultra conservative to standard Japan politics?
Yes, socially. But also a weird flavor of Japanese conservatism economically. She supports strong economic interventionism, massive stimulus funded by additional debt, cash distribution, etc. Not at all a free market type.
I was commenting the other day on how she says that Margaret Thatcher is her greatest hero, but that she's an advocate of economic policy more in line with Shinzo Abe's stuff, which really isn't in line with Thatcher.
IIRC Liz Truss had some similar statement, and the policy that she went for during her time as Prime Minister was also pretty loose.
God, that's a scary thought isn't it?
Sooo… we only need the AfD to win in Germany to get the old gang back together? /s
Oh god, I just moved here please no. Lol. No AfD, ideally no CDU either. I just want to live in a country doing well and moving in a progressive direction where everything is getting better. Bitte.
The /s ruins the joke :(
No it doesn't. If you think it does you're either pathetic in your understanding of humor or you want to erode people's ability to tell who is a shithead around them
Thank you for the sarcasm tag! Fuck nazis, they don't deserve a safe space, even in humor.
Why are all these women conservative? What's there to gain for them? I feel like conservative views work against women rather than for them? At least that's what I've grown up believing.
I don't they care about other women. Or people in general. If you an upper class woman running for politics then such policies would never affect you personally. Consequences are for "lesser" people.
This is just what she choose to built her political career upon, because such views are popular in Japan and therefore she would be able garner support and boring base. What matters is that it will get her to power. I sincerely doubt she actually believes into any of that.
Women aren't immune from being stupid fucking idiots. Just look at all of the Republican female politicians and entertainment pundits.
It's so fucking spineless. People shouldn't be able to pursue a political career. They should be chosen to lead by peers or some other weird system. Like okay now it's my turn to bear the responsibility. Otherwise it becomes something people pursue, and it becomes all about the power and the money. Disgusting.
If you are in power, your gender becomes irrelevant.
Why else would a fuckton of oppressive monarchs be women?
I got it, yeah. Depressing af isn't it.
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Since no one else said it yet, it's called "pulling up the ladder behind you".
The only way to get ahead of being subjugated is to become one of the subjugators yourself. It's been most women politicians go to move in modern history, "Join the ruling class before I'm beneath their heel" as the only solution their brains can come up with for survival, even though in the end that always ends up happening anyway.
"First they came for the communists..."
Girlbossing shitty policies.
Just another insane Moonie cultist?
exactly
Ah the suspicious and somehow expected rise of conservative ideologies...
Just more global backsliding of democracy due to old people being racists.
How progressive -_-
Japan? Progressive? Japan is hugely patriarchal. I guarantee this lady is nothing more than a face for the all-male leadership behind her.
I thought there was some drama about her being kicked outnbecause of some scandal one of her appointments are associated with?
Conservatives: a small group of people should control the world!
Liberals: half of them should be women!
That’s how we got here.
An admirer of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
That being said, if you go back 100 years, Japan has only had 7 or so prime ministers that lasted 3 or more years. Most last 1-2 years or less. I'm not sure how much she can change, but its worth watching what new coalitions form with the LDP and also the rise of Sanseito (MAGA inspired Japanese-First party) in future elections.
My question is how ?
Japan has always been conservative. Always. People think because of the things they produce which are fun, entertaining, or technologically advance they would be very liberal and/or progressive but no at the end of the day Japan, culturally, is still very conservative.
So combine that with their declining population, racism that never truly went away, xenophobia, etc it makes sense. I've known people that moved there thinking it'd be a great time because they had such a massive interest in the Japanese "culture" but that "culture" was just window dressing. It's not all fun anime, videogames, jpop, and fashion. They ended up moving back and completely losing interest in all things Japanese. It wasn't a fun a experience for them.
How does the Diet work?
removedzilla
The whole world is fucking trippin
Late stage capitalism + social media engagement algos. It’s impacting almost every nation.
Social media algos are a product of late stage capitalism. 🥹
“Why is world getting worse? We need a strong conservative to get us back before the world got shit from strong conservative policies” - dumbasses
People understand that their position is getting worse and worse every year. The liberal parties are all promising to stay the course and maybe throw a couple bones to token minority groups. The conservatives are promising to punish all the dirty minorities that ruined everything and make it all better. Your average voter has no political inclination and when one group says they aren't gonna change anything, and the other offers radical change, it's not surprising why voters will go for the change option.
It's striking how little many people know about history and politics, but more concerning is how little they care. My old coworkers just don't seem to care much. And they won't even feel shame because their only priority seems to be protecting their ego.
Reminds me of Brent from The Good Place, honestly. "No. No. I'm a good person. I'm a good person!!"
Real bro. It's like there's nowhere to run. Except up through Normandy beach when D-Days comes.
It's like that crazy plot from Hellsing Ultimate when the nazis tried to resurrect themselves for a third world war with the goal of world domination and there were millions of souls of deceased people and soldiers in London or something like that, I honestly don't remember it got pretty crazy.
But it feels as outrageous as that.