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If only! .....

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Anything is better than the LDP

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Anything is better than the LDP

The Japanese Communist Party?

5 ( +12 / -7 )

I don't hope LDP is ruling party forever. Very long ruling party becomes rotten. Need change sometimes.

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If you read what the Japanese ( miss labeled) communist Party actually say, one of the few parties that has a readable platform they are for the people rather then companies. Obviously I can't vote being a second class human but good enough to pay tax.

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If you can't topple the incredibly inept LDP in this crisis then woe is Japan. The people need to remember to vote party, not person.

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Hoping to see more parties being able to be a real “threat” to LDP on the polls.

The “one party” situation in Japan has proven very inefficient, as they do as they please, knowing that they will remain where they are.

That applies to any country, and not only in politics. This political monopoly in Japan is dragging the country backwards, being only a matter of time before it loses its place on the Top 3 largest economies.

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Anything is better than the LDP

The Japanese Communist Party?

Yes.

Absolutely.

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If you read what the Japanese ( miss labeled) communist Party actually say, one of the few parties that has a readable platform they are for the people rather then companies. Obviously I can't vote being a second class human but good enough to pay tax.

I agree. Their manifesto reads a bit more like Bernie Sanders- They are more like democratic socialists. I'd HAPPILY vote for them. The last 20 years has seen a real widening of the gap between rich and poor. We could use a little more trickle up not down.

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The present administration under Suga is rather hopeless. The weaker the individual the higher the odds that the PM is simply a puppet for Nikai and Aso. The problem with the LDP are these old permanent fixtures who cling to their power and prevent young fresh thinking to guide the party. If a change from LDP is needed for it to clean house, then so be it.

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Those that have been here in post-quake 2011 have seen him getting more and more tired day by day under the massive stress managing that situation brought.. one popular hashtag on that time was #edano_nero (Edano, sleep!).

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What opposition parties need to do is to demonstrate that they have that mix of realism and connections with the right places to actually do anything if they got the job. That's the reason why the last two times Japan had someone other than the LDP in power it didn't last long.

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@garylamgrem

The Japanese Communist Party?

Precisely. Have you ever read looked at their policies? ... No? Didn't think so.

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The DPJ has the same kind of big government policies as the LDP, so far as I can tell. Same style of policies, different monkeys in charge? Great....

looking for a viable alternative there.... good luck. It’s like picking a Sharp or a Toshiba.

If we could have some small government, decentralization of power style policies, then that might be something to inspire certain voters looking for change, but the voters of Japan vote based upon their group allegiances, not policies, anyway.

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Anything is better than the LDP

The Japanese Communist Party?

YES! They care about people.

Unfortunately japan is a one party state, controlled somewhat by USA after losing WWII.

unfortunately unlike similar regimes like Singapore or China, instead, our dear leader is catapulting the Japanese economy into the worst debt in the world.

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LDP needs to lose an election at least once soon in order to clear out some deadwood.

It didn’t really work that way last time. Aso lost that election as Prime Minister, and here he is now still, just as geriatric and condescending as before, allowing government spending to run way out of control from his perch atop the Finance Ministry.

All it takes to get elected as an LDP clown is to simply declare that you will do and debate everything in a “shikkari” way, ask for cooperation, declare that you will protect people’s lives from the reckless opponents, and the clones that vote in this democracy will oblige.

If its not Nikai and Aso it’ll be their replacements in the next round.

The only hope I have for better government in Japan is a crisis of the scale of Meiji Restoration or defeat in WWII, that’s the only time when the clone voters decide to try something original.

With all the debt that is racked up now, my personal hope is the shift would be away from big government spending when the next revolution occurs.

the Communists would do themselves a big favor and get a big increase in their vote by simply just re- naming the party

Akira Ikegami was on TV the other night explaining the common roots of the CCP and the JCP from back 99 years ago. It’ll take more than just a name change to make people forget about those shared origins with the CCP that we all hate so much.

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They are ready? It’s only taken them the better part of 70 years to get their act together.

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I don't hope LDP is ruling party forever. Very long ruling party becomes rotten. Need change sometimes.

Suga is proof of that. He says stuff like "hope" and "resilience" and yet has no concrete plan to overcome the virus except waiting.

He's been in the background for a long time and doesn't know how "lead".

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The problem is that the bureaucracy is LDP. Last time the opposition won power, the entire bureaucracy united in an effort to get rid of them. In addition, of course, the LDP's total lack of planning for a disaster like the one that unfolded on 3/11 was laid at the feet of the DPJ, despite the fact that they had only just come into power.

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No opposition parties ready to prove it is alternative. Sleep and say sleep.

LDP could rather be split. No more nightmare!

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If the CIA and Americans just hand off the Japanese politics, I assure you that the Japanese Communist Party is going to have a sweeping victory for sure.

In the 20th century, Japan Socialist Party was on the verge of dominating over the whole of Japan before the LDP and CIA systematically sabotaged all Japanese socialists and labor unions. The 1955 System was what assured LDP dominance for many decades, thanks to the CIA.

I agree. Their manifesto reads a bit more like Bernie Sanders- They are more like democratic socialists. I'd HAPPILY vote for them. The last 20 years has seen a real widening of the gap between rich and poor. We could use a little more trickle up not down.

Because of what Bernie Sander standing for, he was crucified by the corporate Democrats in many decades. Unlike Eugene V Debs, Bernie is much smarter and knows how to get things done stealthily.

The JCP is the same story as they gain support for almost all labor unions in Japan, especially the Teachers Union. In each prefecture, their local politics are really strong. The Okinawan movement against American bases is largely thanked for the JCP's helps as it became a grassroots movement that the LDP can't purge anymore.

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The only effective vaccine against the virulent LDP virus is a vote for the JCP.

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Wow. People supporting communism.

Yeah I'm sure Communism is so great.

That's why it failed in Russia.

Failed in other European countries.

Failed in Latin countries.

Fails in Asia and East Asia.

North Korea failure, poverty.

China becoming the worst communist dictator. Xi president for life. Social credit system. Tibet, Muslim treatment, Hong Kong.

Yeah, your comments make a lot of sense! Japan should be communist! Dumb.

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ReasonandWisdomNipponToday  09:25 pm JST

Wow. People supporting communism.

Like the Republican Party and the CIA support the LDP?

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