Mr Miyagi writes why he doesn't want Tin Pei Ling to be a member of parliament.
This isn't the heart of the tin man, the eye of the tiger, the center of the storm in a teacup. This is a fringe thought that doesn't need redress, because his isolated deviant thoughts are insignificant when there are bigger issues at hand.
Only a very few people are willing to dissociate maturity from age, and only they are struck by how mature TPL is, or is not; how much depth her replies to Razor TVs interviewer displayed - or did not. How much her present self - and past self - thinks for the future, than for today - or does not. And since only a few people constitute a minority, they are not of substantial consequence.
The sad but real reason our public is angry isn't because they Don't Want Tin Pei Ling, but because they Want to BE Tin Pei Ling.
And hence the vitriol, the rabid dredging through facebook and twitter, and the raking of the coals. Hence the allegations of sleeping with the enemy / boss, the rants that she is too young.
This, being the "majority vote" (google Tin Pei Ling. You'll be amazed at how many pages of angst appear) is worthy of redress, and the Powers that Be have done so. This is bad behaviour, and it shows you are all Blathering Idiots, and therefore Wrong. (and frankly, they are right.) It is a Simple Extension therefore that Since you are Wrong, Tin Pei Ling is the Right Candidate.
Whether she is the right or wrong person for the job, and whether she should button her top button up or not are beyond me.
What I get out of all this, is an immense sadness that we have had so many years as a nation to grow, but this is what we have become.
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Hmm, as someone watching from the outside, I don't think it's so much that people want to BE her (at least not the ones with more than a couple of brain cells that can think independently out of the box).
The people are angry. They have been discontent for a while now with the gahmen. The fielding of a young woman who isn't the image of your typical politician, seemingly favourited out of what are deemed to be more qualified candidates, is pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back in the system where democracy is merely a label, and that people have grudgingly put up with. So they direct that anger at her, because she's the centre and the topic of this whole hoo-ha.
Of course, in typical small-town tabloid fashion, things spiral out of control into vitriol spitting. It is unbecoming, but it is mob mentality, which, short of CCP-employed tactics of hidden threats, censorship and violence in extreme cases, isn't really controllable.
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