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Vegetable posted:Is it just a money thing or what. What do the politicians get out of this? Is the cult that big in Japan? Funding, free campaign workers, a reliable voting block. If the upper echelons of a party are filled with people who are friends of the church, up and coming politicians must also become friends of the church to advance in the ranks. The connection between LDP and the Unification Church formed way back in the 60's when corruption was more rampant, Abe's grandfather was the party leader and CIA was funding LDP to be the anti-communist power in Japan. LDP and UC shared the same right wing and anti-communist values. It were politicians like Abe's grandfather who helped the church to take root and grow in Japan, which in turn made the church grow wealthier and funnel even more money into politics. BoldFace fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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icantfindaname posted:I dunno, America seems much more hostile to *positive* change than Japan, and more open to *negative* change. I think this idea that Japan is a uniquely dysfunctional polity compared to the rest of the first world is very 1999, and has not aged all that well Do you consider letting women be involved in politics to be a *negative* change? If so, then, yes, Japan is very resilient. 
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Weatherman posted:I can't even parse what you mean. Is it some kind of gotcha? Usually when people say "if by X you mean Y, ..." they're reframing the argument to something that wasn't posited. An argument was made that America is more hostile towards positive change than Japan. Meanwhile, Japan is one of the worst first world countries when it comes to women's representation in politics. This begs the the question, is the original argument wrong (or at least not as black and white as originally suggested) or does having more equal representation not count as a positive change.
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I personally blame Australians for basically everything.
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