Protesters Connect Gaza War to Struggles Near & Far

From the New York Times that came with today’s papers…

Talk to student protesters across the country, and their outrage is clear: They have been galvanized by the scale of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip, and will risk arrest to fight for the Palestinian cause.

For most of them, the war is taking place in a land they’ve never set foot in, where those killed—34,000 so far, according to local health authorities—are known to them only through what they have read or seen online.

But for many the issues are closer to home, and at the same time, much bigger and broader.  In their eyes, the Gaza conflict is a struggle for justice, linked to issues that seem far afield.  They say they are motivated by policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, discrimination toward Black Americans and the impact of global warming.

the protests at Emory University in Atlanta from online, led by the students…

Many protesters have rebuffed entreaties from university administrators, chained themselves to benches and taken over buildings.  Now demonstrators have faced a harsh crackdown, with hundreds of arrests in the past twenty-four hours at many schools, including Columbia University.

With pro-Israel students ratcheting up their counterprotests on a number of campuses, the climate could grow even more strained in the coming days.

In interviews, the language of many protesters was also distinctive.  Students freely salted their explanations with academic terms like intersectionality, colonialism, and imperialism, all to make their case that the plight of Palestinians is a result of global power structure that thrive on bias and oppression.

“As an environmentalist, we pride ourselves on viewing the world through intersectional lenses,” said Katie Rueff, a first-year student at Cornell University.  “Climate justice is an everyone issue.  It affects every dimension of identity, because it’s rooted in the same struggles of imperialism, capitalism—things like that.  I think that’s very true of this conflict, of the genocide in Palestine.”

the police, detaining the protesters at Emory…photo from online

Jawuanna McAllister, a twenty-seven-year-old doctoral candidate in cell and molecular biology at Cornell, pointed to the name of the student group she is affiliated with: the Coalition for Mutual Liberation.

“It’s in our name: mutual liberation,” McAllister said.  “That means we’re anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist organization.  We believe that none of us can be free and have the respect and dignity we deserve unless all of us are free.”

So, this is the young people’s cause, not just for the Palestinians, but for the global people of the world, and, this still just showed, how these younger generations are way more, sound in their following the causes.  When a group of people of tried and dominated another group, the oppressed are bound to eventually, rebel against the rules, because everybody wants to be viewed and treated as equals to that next guy, and the U.S. does NOT, foster this concept of equality at all, which is what’s causing this protest across all the university campuses in the U.S. right now.

The Jewish Students, Split Over the Wave of American Support for Palestine

Whichever side you may support, it still, takes a toll, and have that huge, impact on the individuals, and this is on a macro scale of things…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Since the Israeli-Hamas Conflict began last year on October 7^th in Gaza, the support Palestine protests started, taking over the university campuses all across the U.S.  But as these anti-war protests continued it’d made many of the Jewish students ill at ease, despite their individual views of how Israel is treating the Palestinian people.

The Pew Research posted a survey result from February first, that the Jewish-Americans between ages eighteen and twenty-five, are split on their opinions of Israeli retaliation over Gaza, with fifty-two-percent in support, forty-two percent, against, while of the Jewish Americans over fifty polled showed, that sixty-eight percent believed what the Israeli forces are doing is, acceptable.

the effects of war, whichever side you’re on, is immense…image from online

Like the other races of Americans, the Jewish students’ beliefs about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict are varied, and delicate, with the Palestinian supportive protests across U.S. university campuses, the factions between the Jewish students grew greater et.

In the origins of this wave of protests, in Columbia University, the students, one of the leaders of the Jewish on Campus Student Union, Jacob Schmeltz stated, “the protesting of the war in Gaza or toward the Israeli military attacks was shocking to me, this was completely, acceptable, but the Jewish students in the schools are now, feeling the unsettlements physically and psychologically.”

In Northwestern University, the junior Jewish student celebrated Passover with other protesters in the tents, she said, that her religious belief had led her to protest against the war in Gaza, and she’s against the Israeli attacks.  But another Jewish student from Northwester stated, that the Anti-Semitism made the Jewish students at the university uneasy, and unwelcomed.

And so, this is, on a, micro scale of how the war in Gaza affects these students, individually, and, although they may have varied opinions on the matter, one thing is for certain, this “conflict” is, affecting, everybody, whether you’re Jewish or not!

Allow the Children to Resolve the Conflicts on Their Own

How the kids will, find a way to interact with one another, nicely, without fighting, when we’re not, looking, because they’d, internalized what we’d taught them in interacting with one another daily already…translated…

A lot of parenting volumes said, to let the children sort out their own differences, that parents should not intervene.  I’d worked very hard and long on this, but, it’d been, too hard for me, because the children can’t fully keep their emotions in check, they aren’t, reasonable enough either, lacked empathy too, if I’d allowed my kids to sort things out on their, own, the end result is usually that one of them felt that s/he got picked on, and wailed, or they’d simply, start to, brawl.  And yet, being their mediator every single day, it’s, tiring too.

One day, I was lying on the couch, just resting, my seven-year-old eldest son told me, “mom, you go into the bedroom to nap, I will stay outside here with my younger brother.”, I’d become confused, and he’d told me, that he didn’t want me to watch over them.

I’d told him, that if he’d picked on his younger brother, then, he will be, punished, he’d told me he’d understood, and so, I’d, gone into the bedroom, with doubt in my, mind, and closed my eyes, lying on the bed, while, still kept attention on my children who were, playing, outside.  Suddenly, the two of them started, fighting, my younger screamed at his older brother, as he got angry, and, my older didn’t act like he normally had, mocked his younger brother, or, took advantage of him, instead, he’d, started, comforting his younger brother, and, allowed his brother to have what he wanted.

Then, I’d heard my sons heading into the shower, my younger started, yelling again, turns out, my older was, washing my younger son’s head; he’d done what we did, told his younger brother to tilt his head back, then, soothed him patiently.  I’d, held back my thought of wanting to go see what was going on, wanted to know, how far can my older son go in caring for his younger brother, and how compliant my younger son can, get.

During those two hours, although there were the small fights that came into my ears, but, they’d found ways, that worked with them both.  I was, quite, surprised, and understood, that it wasn’t, that they’d, matured, suddenly, but of how they’d, internalized what we’d, taught them in how to interact with one another every single day.

Later, I’d stopped, needing to, intervene into their, arguments, they would, try and work things out on their, own, and from time to time, they would come to me to “tattle”, then, the “judge” is, needed to oversee the cases.  Maturation is by progression, not achieved in a day’s work. I hope, that all moms and dads can have enough wisdoms, to take their children in getting them to learn to get along on their own.

So, this still showed, how parents would, often, intervene too quick, when a fight is about to start, the parents would, put an end to the fight that’s, about to happen, telling the older kid to give whatever toy or whatever it is the young kid wanted from the older, instead, of allowing them, to resolve things, their own, way, whether it be fighting over the toys or whatever, or to learn to compromise on their own, and, by stepping in as parents, we took away the chances of them, learning how to resolve things by themselves, because mommy and daddy will always step in, and solve the arguments FOR us, and one of us gets, punished, because we took the other one’s toys, because we wouldn’t allow our younger siblings to play with our, toys, and, the kids still, don’t learn a thing!

The Absinthe of Bitter Love

This is SHIT, how the narrator’s younger male cousin, got scolded for trying to get the mosquito off of his younger sister’s face, by, SMACK, after she’d made fun of him, called him, a fool…and what’s worse is that these, FUCKING (so???) adult counterparts still believe that they got it, right?  Yeah, get real here!  Translated…

Half a glass of, vodka, the bitter, astringent taste, circled in my mouth, entered through the corner of my, lips.  People often have this love-hate comment on alcohol.

I’d returned back home to my hometown, my youngest cousin acknowledged me in nod, then, a strange sort of familiarity came to me, it was, as if, I saw myself, in, him, a naïve, harmless most well-behaved, kid.

Then, started, losing himself.

the CULPRIT of what caused the lad to get scolded by his own, parents…illustration from online

“My older brother is a fool!”, my youngest female cousin whispered to me to complain.  Everybody was, laughing.

“Your older brother is NOT a fool, he just, reacts, a bit, slower is all.” My uncle stated in front of, everyone.

Everybody was laughing, getting along perfectly.  Only my younger cousin, did his best, to squeeze out that, smile, silent.  Because it was his families, he’d, held it all, in, not a, word.

His naughty younger sister started up, called him lots of names, he’d not said a word, for he’d known, that she wasn’t, of malicious, intent.

That was the day the moon was, full.  Tons of mosquitoes, searching for food in the yard, as the mosquito got onto my younger female cousin’s face, her brother smacked, didn’t get it.  Then, the younger girls cries, came loud.

“What are you doing?  You are, too slow to react, why would you go and, smack your, sister’s face?  Think, before you, ACT!”  my aunt turned around, carried her daughter, to soothe her.

My younger cousin didn’t say a word, no rebuttals, but with tears in his, eyes.

It’s okay, I understand you.

It’s not that we don’t say a single word, it’s the bitterness of the absinthe that’s, way too, awful that we can’t, put it into, words, so we’d, smiled and told of how good it’d, tasted.

So, this is, this family’s, dynamics, they all had to play pretend with each other, when everything is NOT okay, they still say it is, and, leave it at that.  That’s just, SHIT, because aren’t families supposed to have our backs, and aren’t our homes, supposed to be a safe harbor of sorts, that we can go to, to rest up when we’re, too weary?  But not in this case, or any other cases, and this boy got made fun of by his younger sister, the narrator’s cousin, and, him smacking the younger girl’s face, was for the sake of, trying to, KILL off the mosquito that’s about to, bite her on the face, and the adults interpreted that as his delayed reaction for his younger sister’s calling him, stupid?  Yeah, what the FUCK is that?  That still just showed, how little adults know, and all you adults CAN learn something from your younger children, and just because we’re younger, that does NOT mean, that you fucking adults get to, bully us indefinitely!

The Truth

How a preconceived notion can become a total, stereotype, and how it’s BAD, to hold that preconceived notion of how we were socialized, and place that same expectation onto our own young, and those whom we come into contact with on a day-to-day basis, parents, and adults, listen UP!  Translated…

My former classmate called to catch up.  He’d retired from the post office, and for forty plus years, he’d been the recruit for our class reunion, making the contact information ledgers, finding the classmates who’d lost touch, and, he’d been more than generous toward those former classmates who had monetary issues at home, he’s the most compassionate student of the whole, class.

As he’d begun talking about a coworker, who was also a classmate, Chang, Cheng started sighing, talked about what happened awhile ago.  Turns out, he’d asked Chang and his wife to come to his house for a supper around Christmas, and Chang told him it was inconvenient, that he couldn’t make the time.  Later, he’d tried asking Chang several times again but Chang turned him down still.

Cheng felt defeated for a while, and finally, called Chang up and interrogated him, “What did I ever do to offend you?  We’d been classmates for forty plus years, and we worked together too, am I really, that awful a person?”, that was when Cheng finally told him, his wife had been diagnosed with cancer, and was in the hospital, fighting with, death, he didn’t want anyone else to know about this, and couldn’t find a good enough reason to turn Cheng’s invitations down, and can only, make the excuses of why he couldn’t meet up again, and again.

illustration from UDN.com

As Cheng learned the truth he’d hated himself, for pushing Chang too hard.

This reminded me of my neighbor, who owed a steel mill, the Wangs, Mr. Wang is kind and gentle, courteous toward everybody, but his son, Wang junior always felt, distant, aloof.  And, as I’d gone out and met him, I’d nodded to acknowledge him, waved to him hello, but he’d, not, responded back to me, just kept working on his, own.

As their neighbors for over a decade, we’d never exchanged a single word with Wang.  And my husband complained that Wang acted so high up, and I’d gotten upset, thought, hadn’t Wang instructed his son to interact courteously enough with the, neighbors at all?

We’d never asked our neighbor about this, until this year, as Wang retired, and the factory’s operation passed to junior, and that was when we’d heard from the neighbor, Mrs. Chen, that in his high school years, Wang Junior got into a car wreck, caused his eye sight to, deteriorate to nearly blind, the families sought out all the well-known ophthalmologists, and nothing worked, and so, Wang started, training his own son to work the steel mills, so he could at least, have a, viable, skill.  And finally, it’d hit my husband and I, it’s a wonder, that we always saw Mrs. Wang driving, that Wang Junior never saw us greet him, or nod, how our narrowed minds had, been so, malicious.

“What is, the truth, let’s just, watch how the story, develops…” as the narrator of the T.V. show, Sheng would say, these were the words off of a script, but now, looking back, we’d known, that the prejudices we hold, busted, wide open, in the face of, truths.

So, this is on how our own subjective interpretations of things, are almost ALWAYS incorrect, just because someone doesn’t greet you, when s/he sees you, that does NOT mean that they’re uncourteous, and where the FUCK is it written, that we must all greet our neighbors, those people whom we’re not even acquainted with, like we’re their, besties, I mean, you DO realize, that some younger generations are SHY in their natures, right, and, forcing them to give that aunt or uncle (our friends) a hug hello or goodbye, that would be, TRAUMATIZING to that young child, right?  So parents, do NOT teach your own young based off of how YOU’d been raised up, because, the methods you were “trained” with may work back then, but it does NOT work for us, the younger generations…

A Total Disregard of Innocent Lives, the Evaluations of Child Abuse Became a Game of Kick-the-Ball

How this is still not, a problem of JUST one thing, but a collective of how things that are connected, that lacked normal functioning, and what needed changing, IS the systems, but it doesn’t change, because, it takes way too long, for the systems to change, and, in the meantime, children are still, MURDERED, left and right!  These needed changes just don’t come, fast enough…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The one-year-old young boy, Kai-Kai was abused to DEATH by a certified nanny last year, the Department of Health & Social Welfare didn’t discuss or evaluate the matter for three whole months, until the case was disclosed by the funeral home, and got onto the newspapers, then, the Department of Health & Social Welfare started carrying forth with the evaluations.  This major case of child abuse, had it not been found out by the public, it would’ve gotten, swept, underneath the rug too easily.  The Taipei Social Services Department and the Central Government started scapegoating each other, accused one another for not hosting the evaluation discussions, that a young life got lost because of it, the head of Social Services, the head of the Central Agency, for the sake of keeping themselves in their offices, became, too calculating, showing how coldblooded they all, are.

the work of social services, this is only the “elderly portion”…illustation from online

The Department of Health & Social Welfare set up the “Prevention of Major Cases of Child and Adolescent Abuse”. Demanded that the local government to immediately host the discussions of “prevention of serious children and adolescent abuse”; the social services of Taipei also set up the plans to handling the major cases of child and adolescent abuse guidelines, which allows the officials to review over the facts of the cases, then, report back to the protections department of the Department of Health & Social Welfare.

But, after the social services department of Taipei had, inquired the agencies, it’d not hosted the evaluation discussions on its own; while the organizations responsible in oversees cases of child abuse, and the agency overseeing the nursery care of young children, they’d started, scapegoating the case on one another.  Even the head of Department of Health & Social Welfare, Shue admitted that the system of communication is flawed.  The local offices are slow to act, the central government, losing its function, the evaluations of what happened became hindsight, and yet, the holes of net of social security, if they don’t get patched up, there are bound to be the next lives that became, sacrificed under the systems.

helping parents to learn the parenting skills…photo from online

After the case came out to the open, the communities, the organizations all called out to the government, to remember the lessons taught to the world by this boy who was, abused to death.  This is, such a, burdensome lesson, from the source, the Department of Social Welfare, to the social services of the city of Taipei, the social policy systems, all lacked, the proper, functionality, the bad nanny passed the evaluations, and, without any justifications of the law, the social workers can’t barge in to check, it becomes too easy, for the nannies to hide the fact of child abuse, these systematic lacking, under how the government’s inability to change, and to shoulder the responsibilities, when the tragedies happen, the social workers became, scapegoated by the, public.

And so, this is how the systems, failed in its, functioning, and it’s still from the top, down, because there’s no rules that are set up correctly, those who work underneath don’t know what to go by, and, this was what’s caused the death of this young boy, who’d been, abused to death.  There’s definitely that need for a stricter background check, the frequent home visits by the social workers, but, the social workers are still, overworked, with how many cases per social worker, and they’re, overworked, and, paid too little, and this causes the quality of care to drop to, subpar.

Ruby Lin, on the Child Abuse Case, Said Her Heart Wrenched, Couldn’t Bear the Thought of How the Young Child Was, Abused, Called Out to the Government, “Give Us the Answers to Resolve”

The actress, spoke out on the matter of that young boy being, abused to death by his nanny and her sister, and this is, heart wrenching all right!!!  From the Entertainment Sections, the “bystanders’” points of view here, translated…

Sunny Li: Even if the Parents are Serving Time, the Children Should Not be Mistreated So Heartlessly

A one-and-a-half year-old boy was suspected to have been abused to death by the sister nanny pair, Ruby Lin who has a daughter with Wallace Huo, went to a function, and mentioned this, she’d spoken from her broken heart, “it pains me to see this, the nanny should answer to the society for what she did.”

Lin, at the function of the Shiatze Chen charity auction, told of how as a mother, she felt heart wrenched as she saw the news of the child abuse, “whether or not we’re parents, seeing it on the news, anyone will feel the heartaches, and we need to view this incident as quite serious, the government needs to handle this matter fully.”  Lin told, that she’s, very strict on selecting a nanny for her own children, she would observe the nanny from the side, and there are the surveillance cameras in her home, and because it was a relative of the families who is hired as her nanny, she’d not felt, worried at all.

She’d also disclosed, that if her and her husband are away for work, she’d asked her mother or her mother-in-law to stay at home, and would never leave her daughter alone with the nanny, and, on the way to school, before bed, she’d, guided her daughter to tell her everything, to share with her the goings on of her day.  Her daughter, “Little Dolphin” is now, seven, although both her and her husband have busy work schedules, they would always try to have one of them stay at home with their young.

The mother of two, the female actress, Sunny Li, was equally distraught when she saw the news, “after becoming a mother, it’d hurt me more, seeing news like this, why is it that the woman with prior records of child abuse still allowed to work as a nanny?”  “Even if the child’s parents are in prison, this doesn’t mean that nobody cared for him, and he shouldn’t be mistreated like that.”

So, this is, what the comments of the stars showed, a total disagreement on how the nanny had abused the young boy, and it’s only natural, that the public react this same way as these two women, because, when bad things like this happen, the first thing we all do is to search for someone to blame, and we’d missed out on how it is still the SYSTEMS that’s, continually, failing the children here!

The Key Evidence the Foreign Hired Household Help Had Documented the Abuse of the Young Child on Video

The nanny WAS the one, primarily, responsible for the abuse death of this, young boy, and the social workers should’ve, been, more tentative, more aware, but they, weren’t, and that, was what had, caused this young child to DIE of severe, abuse, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Nanny & Her Entire Family Denied the Allegations, after the Foreign Hired Help Got Placed Out, She’d Told the Truth, “the Family Who Hired Me is Truly Scary”

The city certified nanny, Liu, was accused of abusing a one-year-old boy, “Kai-Kai” to death, the autopsy found that the child’s limb, and body were all covered in injuries, the skull and the pelvis, dent, and bent out of shape due to force traumas, but Liu was insistent, that the boy had chocked on the formulas, that his injuries were from his own, walking around; the investigators called Liu’s younger sister and her families, they’d all stated that they “didn’t know”, but, as the police called the foreign hired nurse’s aid who took care of “grandma Liu”, she’d testified, that “my employer is really scary, she’d, beaten me”, which was a major break in the, case.

Based off of understanding, as the police went to the Liu’s home to investigate, the officers noted that this foreign hired nurse’s aide wanted to say something, but didn’t, the officers working the investigation found that something was off, took the hired nurse’s aide into the room to inquire, and this confirmed that Liu had been, physically abusing the young boy long term; the hired nurse told the police, that she was afraid of telling, because the whole family agreed to tell no one, that she’d feared getting fired if she’d told the truth.  The investigating officer immediately notified the district attorneys, and placed the foreign nurse’s aide in protective custody, then, used the evidence of the tape recording the foreign nurse’s aide provided as evidence, to get a warrant for Liu’s arrest, the district attorneys, after investigating deeper, asked the courts to mandate Liu into custody, the courts signed off on it.

Based off of accusations, Liu, after the boy had been abused to death, erased her cell phone data, the specialist task squad had the digital forensic unit to recover back all the deleted data, and they’d found, that the younger sister of Liu who lived in the residence, was also involved in the abuse death of the young child.  The investigators disclosed, that the fifty-five-year-old Liu would share the means she took to abuse the young child to her own fifty-three-year-old younger sister, and from time to time, handed the boy to her younger sister to look after, the younger sister didn’t not only stop the abuse, she’d, encouraged the abusive behaviors of Liu, stating, “sparing the rod, the child will be spoiled rotten!”, and the investigators believed that the younger sister of Liu was also involved in the abuse of the young boy, took her into custody, after the investigations.

The investigative officers accused, that Liu and her younger sister was suspected of feeding the slumps to the child, pulled all of his nails out, burning his pubic area, tying his hands together when he’d taken his naps, beating him, and other ways of torturing the young boy, and, the boy only had eight teeth left, and, all of his finger nails, were, pulled, off.

The Families and Relatives of the Young Boy Questioned that the Social Workers Didn’t Do Their Job Right

And, a person who’d claimed to be the friend of the family of “Kai-Kai” accused on FB, that the social workers had, refused to allow the families and friends to visit the child, falsified reports, and posted the LINE call records between the social worker and the young boy’s maternal grandmother.  He’d accused, that the reports of the social worker had many photos that weren’t from the visits, the photos that they took the boy to get his abuse status confirmed were used by the social workers as the home visit photos; originally, Kai-Kai’s happier attitude of rocking on the rocking horse wasn’t there, he cleared became, bald across the forehead, the photos of the child sliding down a slide, looked like a photo to wave the families’ concerns off, “if the social workers are trained, then, they couldn’t have missed that the child’s gazes were vacant, how he’d, lost weight, how he was showing fears, and the helplessness.”

He’d said, that the social workers said in the call, that the young boy lost four teeth due to grinding in his sleep, but there was no photos of the child’s oral cavities in the file, “did the social workers actually make the home visits?  Or, are these, conditions, not considered SEVERE enough for the social services to be, alarmed?”, the autopsy report showed that Kai-Kai had endured long-term abuse, and, if the social workers did their jobs, then, this would not have, happened, “I hope that Kai-Kai’s death, can make this system better, then, there would NOT be any more problems of abuse like this!”

So, this is the who’s-to-blame now that this kid had been ABUSED to death, and, the families are, pointing their GUNS AT the social workers, but hey, these individuals’ work are already, too much, and it’s, one social worker to, how many cases again, and of course, it’s NO excuse of how the social workers should’ve paid more attention, but, don’t you think, that the ones who need to be under that GUN BARREL should be this awful nanny that actually abused this young boy, and yeah, this system that we’re working with, is still, NOWHERE NEAR perfect.  But, it sounds like, that the loved ones of this young child only wants to direct their anger to someone, who’s not, directly responsible to causing this young child’s, death.

Regardless, the social workers should’ve been, more tentative, that is, the fault of the social workers, and maybe, the social workers had, LACKED professional training, like the friend of the family had stated, because, you would’ve, surely, noted that something was clearly up, with how the kid looked, fearful, helpless is, trying to, ask for help, but couldn’t, because he couldn’t, verbalize, being as young as, he, was…

On the Road to Escalation in Chances of War Between Taiwan & China

Campaign ad time, with the DDP’s, using the, emotional appeals, and, the KMT, making promises, they may, or may not, keep, so, how do we the people, vote???  Dunno, it’s, a TOSS-UP!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The polls are, the decisions here.  In the campaign ads, Tsai drove a car, lifting Lai somewhere, as they exchanged, thoughts, and in the conversations, Tsai pushed forth her visions for this country, hoping, that the DDP will win the presidency, as well as the majority of seats in legislature too.  Then, Tsai gave Lai the control of the steering wheel, while Lai continued driving Hsiao, the two, although, engaging in a more relaxed conversation now, but still stressed, “voting for the right man, walking that, right, path”, as the campaign’s, motto; the ad only played on YouTube for one day, it’d gotten, 1.54 million hits, and the campaign headquarters of Lai, posted the behind-the-scenes of the filming of this, ad.

this is one of the campaign ad of the KMT candidate, Hou, off of YouTube, feel free to watch it…

a BEAT-DOWN on what the DDP did for the past, eight years of complete control over this “country” of ours…

As for the other ads of the DDP, including the “family value” of taking care of the future generations, pushing for the “country’s engineering of hope”, Lai’s wife being a spokeswoman for “the man who will take care of, Taiwan”, called out to the promoted values of the DDP, of strengthening the work of the DDP, and the values of “we will accompany you into the futures to come”, “Taiwan to the world”, and, “right man for the, right path”, etc., etc., etc.  In summation, the DDP is embellishing its work, the selection of values, and the outlook of the future of this country.  Based off of “We’re on our ways”, Lai still carried  that “defying China” mentality, hoping, to use the sentimental ad and the manipulations of the issues, to enforce the means of “using both hard and soft means to appease to the voters”; especially “on the way” this sensible way of stating the matter, not only is it to sum up Tsai’s term, also, tried to change the people’s impressions, of Lai too, to make him closer to our, lives, to make him, appear more, sensitive, sensible than he actually.  Attempting to, shift the hardcore fans of Tsai to become fully supportive of Lai’s ideals, but, this ad still, isn’t, effective enough, for the, undecided, voters.

First, everybody knew, that Tsai and Lai started, disagreeing at the competitions for the nomination of candidacy for president of the DDP last time, that they’d, gotten on each other’s, bad side, and how can their differences, be resolved, by one, ad?  Of course it was, all for show.  Secondly, the rational undecided voters would question, if “on the way” means that we are getting on the way, to increase the conflicts with China?  If Lai is going to, speed down that freeway to Taiwanese, independence again?

As for the KMT, currently, there’s the “we are all in support of Hou”, with the former president, MA, the KMT’s mayors, former heads of states, etc., etc., to embellish, although, there were the professionals of the industries, vouching for Hou, but the strategies of the campaign ads are way too, generalized, he’d not gotten as many hits as Lai’s campaign ads; a week ago, the Hou-Chiao candidacy used the attacking means as their key point, including the younger generation, rapping to criticize how Hou was the one, battling the corruption of the DDP’s during the time of Tsai’s presidency.

and, here’s the DDP, Lai’s “movie”, “On the Way”, off of YouTube

And so, this would be, a comparison of the campaign ads, how the DDP, tried to appease to us using our emotions (that’s manipulative and EMOTIONAL blackmail, by the way!), while, the KMT makes all those, campaign promises, that they will, try to, upkeep, but we don’t know if they will, after all, politicians only have ONE thought in mind: getting ELECTED, then, WHO are you again?  And, “have we ever, met”???

Because that, is how politics, worked, and we the people, are still, forced to decide between, the LESSER of, TWO evil, just like, all the times before, and, with the DDP’s records, of, NOT listening to WE the voter’s voices, yeah, there’s, a FAT chance, that the country will, turn itself, around…

This is So Easy, & You Can’t, Do It?

How these mindless words, can damage a child for life!  The words of the parents, came out so carelessly, that hit the children’s heart, too hard, translated…

Passing by an elementary school, school just let out, there were, the parents, gathering outside the gates, waiting to pick up their own children.

A mother with smile on her face, saw her young son’s math quiz, her face changed, angrily pointed to the questions with the X’s, “you have eighty-five dollars, you spent fifty-eight on things, how much do you have left?”

The little boy thought for a very, long time, “I would have…have………”, he became, too stressed out he’d started, crying.

Seeing a lot of people are now, turning their attention to her own young, the mother’s hurried, high-pitched voice calmed back down, lowered her voice to the child, “this is easy, how come you can’t do it?”, then, turned, led her son away.

I really wanted to go up to the mother, and tell her, the two-digit subtraction is simple for us, adults, but for a young child who’d just only mastered the addition, it may be, quite, difficult!

I’d remembered when my daughter got into elementary school, every time she’d come to me with her math problems, I’d always blurted out to her, “this is simple, how come you can’t do it?”, and, all the way, even though she’ddone well in math, she’d continued to be without, self-confidence, and asked me to put her in cram school.

Or maybe, my responses, had rooted too deep inside her mind, in that dark corner of her, memories, in her thirties now, she’d always behaved very well, and one day, she’d told us angrily, because I’d disliked the saunas, and turned down her offer of trip to Japan to see the cherry blossoms.  She’d posted on LINE, “just as well then, anyways, since I was young, I can’t please the two of you, no matter what I did!”, actually, we’d both been, really, proud of her all the way.

And this showed, how “this is so easy, and you can’t do it???”, had damaged the child to extents we can’t even, imagine, and so, we must, be careful, in stating it.

And so, this, is how the child got, scarred, by the careless words of the parents, and, the parents may not think that it was, a big deal, but to the child, it IS, because as young children we take EVERYTHING to heart, everything you say to us, hit us, in the heart, and, it breaks us, which will lead to the futures of estrangement, and you stupid parents still have NOBODY to blame but your, selves!