At that time, I heard a fellow from Peking University who was an undergraduate student say that in the election of the Peking University Student Union, a candidate went to each dormitory to bring a light-up disc as a small gift to seek support for canvassing votes. The position of the student council president is so lucrative, in addition to serving the students, he can help himself to be rated as the best graduates in the city, and he can also let himself find out which girl in the school is the daughter of a high-ranking official, and then pursue her hard. Since then, I have hated all the so-called democratically elected student cadres, and stayed far away from institutions like the Student Union during college and postgraduate studies. I even got on the school newspaper because I scolded the student union for organizing activities for its own self-interest in the university debate. Since then, I, the "famous" student host in the school, have never hosted any events organized by the Youth League Committee and the student union. big event. I don't really understand politics.
I am studying law. When I was a freshman, I studied constitutional law and administrative law. The teacher said that this course is political science to a certain extent. Indeed, I read a lot of political science books in the National Library for my thesis: Tocqueville's "On Democracy in America", Schumpeter's "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy", I was surprised to find A fact is revealed: the Western political system is not as good as imagined, and our political system is not as bad as imagined. It all depends on who controls it, how it uses it, and how it is packaged. For a long time, we only know democracy in general, but we do not know that under the big word of democracy, there are elite democracy, democratic tyranny, competitive democracy, and so on. In conclusion, political science is so complex that any political system and presupposition can be exploited to varying degrees by different people under different conditions.
The practice of politics is more complicated than political science itself, just like Chairman Mao's incisive summary: Fighting with people is a lot of fun. If you don't believe it, take a look at this "President Killing Bureau" directed and starred by George Clooney. To sum it up in a fashionable word, running for the presidency is "horrifying every step of the way." Not only among the candidates, but also between the candidates' campaign team and the rival's campaign team, and within the candidate's campaign team, is always full of "killing the game".
The George Clooney film has no sympathy for Democrats. In the first half, the Democratic candidate played by Clooney bragged about his campaign platform and satirized Obama completely.
But the real hero is an excellent press spokesman in Clooney's campaign team. He was first poached by his opponent's campaign manager, then abandoned by his own campaign manager and threatened by reporters. The loss was a mess. When the spectators sighed with emotion "this poor political rookie", he suddenly turned around again, by grabbing Clooney's pigtails and helping Clooney successfully lobby one of the most influential black politicians in the party. became the new campaign manager. Politics played him first, then he played politics.
The Democratic presidential candidate played by George Clooney is also a capricious politician. The film first describes how he shows his adherence to principles and does not exchange interests with powerful black politicians in the party for the sake of the election. The inappropriate relationship with the intern was discovered, and he said it himself: "Every time I run for election, I always establish some principles for myself, but each time I always find that these principles have to be broken. "He fired his old campaign manager and appointed Stephen, a press spokesman who knew he was "broken," as his new campaign manager. He accepted the conditions of black politicians and was on the podium with the man he once hated so much. Give warm hugs and receive warm cheers from people. - This is politics. No principle is the principle of political success.
Clooney himself once commented that the film is not only about politics, but about human nature. This brings me to Hume's "Rogue Assumption", which is based on the fact that human beings are inherently evil and therefore democratic systems must be designed to "prevent all politicians and political actors from becoming rogues". However, at this time, I would rather believe that human nature is inherently good, and engaging in political activities is the reason why human nature tends to be evil.
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