2.15.2007

Feeling Politics

至於修改黨章,王金平表示,「並非遇到流氓的問題,而是人民感受、觀感的問題,如果人民對國民黨失去信心,認為國民黨也是道德淪喪,那人民怎麼會感動,繼續支持國民黨呢?」

from
修黨章對流氓 王金平:人民能接受嗎?

I am curious about the rationale of this statement. The justification of a party through the capacitiy to move or affect the people is common around the world, but not very common to use it as an excuse except the case in Taiwan. It involves with the issues of subjectivity, sympathetic participation, discourse, and mediation.

This reminds me some similar researches about Tzu-Chi movement. The whole imagined communities in Taiwan are built upon compassion, sentimental movement, and collective recognition, be it politics, religion, or news.

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