Abe works the crowd

For the life of me I will never understand why people will stand outside in freezing weather just to catch a glimpse of a person dragging their country into a hole that their great-great-grandchildren will be digging themselves out of.

How do you know Abe is lying? His lips are moving.

He is promoting a candidate. His namem I can read Ishihara hirota but after that I can not read. Young man is LDP candidate. Related to Nobuteru Ishihara> and in other ward? Ot opposing famous Ishihara od Ishin ni kai in same ward?

led like a lamb to a slaughter....

Abe works the crowd just like a con man works the crowd at a carnival. I cannot believe people are still buying his Snake Oil.

Abe might we wearing white to show his "purity" or the "pureness" of his vision - but he deceives no-one. Except perhaps the crowd of gullible sheep, waiting to catch a glimpse of the would-be dictator

but he deceives no-one.

Seems to me he is deceiving millions in this country that still will vote for his party and vote him back into office as well.

The sorry excuse that Japanese people give is "we have no-one better than Abe". Well, anyone or anything is better than Abe

Pictured: Average age of Japan's voting public

Plot twist, everyone has actually shown up to see and take pics of AKB48 performing on the roof up above Senor tummyache. Picture is cropped that we don't see it.

Is anyone else here sick of the vans with the waving people just screaming out the candidates name, party, and arigatou?

Seems everyone is more interested in getting a photo of him, than what he is actually saying!

@JapanGal

Is anyone else here sick of the vans with the waving people just screaming out the candidates name, party, and arigatou?

1000%. I don't understand how this isn't made illegal. It's disturbance of the peace at its worst. Then I realised that the Japanese public are basically obsessed with noise. Loud speakers everywhere, incessant train announcements, storefront staff shouting at the top of their lungs - just no end to it!

@Yubaru

And straining to taking photos of said people.

When the current PM appeared in the advertisements preceding monetized YouTube videos last week I was not pleased.

blvtzpk: Last weekend, practically every single Youtube video I was watching too was proceeded by videos of this lame duck. Annoying and horrible to say the least.

A democracy gets the politicians it deserves.