もうすぐ選挙ですね。
選挙になれば先生方は一斉に改革の大合唱
そして
このままでは日本はダメになる
大声でそう叫びますが
なんせ私の歳になると
若い頃から散々それを聞かされたのに
一向にダメになりませんから
その言葉を発した段位で
その先生に対する私の評価は急下降します。
これ日本だけでは無いようで
トランプさんは
私が当選しなければ世界が消え去る
そう言ってましたね。
世界が消え去る？
どうも想像できませんが
水爆でも撃ちまくるんでしょうかね？
でも落選すれば核のボタンは持てませんから
それもありませんよね。
まぁいずれにしても
政治家は自分が当選する事ばかりが頭の中を占めてますから
自分の落選イコール世界が消える
ここまで妄想が悪化する
って事かも知れません。
そんな人に核のボタンを持たせては危ないですよね。
アメリカは来月投票ですが
是非国民の皆さん
トランプに核ボタンを持たせる事の危険性
それも頭に入れて判断を下して欲しいと思います。
今日本では
自民党の公認問題が大きなテーマになって来ましたね。
残酷な事に
一昨日の新聞に裏金議員の一覧が出ていました。
それを見ると改めて驚きますよね。
裏金って表現が適切かどうか私は分かりませんが
いずれにしても政治資金報告書に記載しなかった議員
４８人の一覧が出ていましたが
旧安倍派議員だらけですね
４８人中４５人が安倍派です
残り３人は二階派です。
その中でA級戦犯の６人が党の公認を得られない
どうやらそんな話に落ち着きそうです。
安倍晋三と二階俊博
この二人で一時自民党を牛耳っていましたが
政権から転落すると
こんな事になるんだ
とつくづく思いますね。
生きていた頃は
自民党の先生方は安倍晋三に逆らえなかったのに・・・
権力にすがる者は
これをしっかり見て置いた方が良いですね。
しかし皮肉な物ですよね
先生方はいくらマイクで改革改革と叫んでも
何の改革もできませんが
今回の自民党の公認話を読むと
1980年生まれの
山上徹也と言う無職の若者が一人で
日本の政治を根底からひっくり返した
って事になりますよね。
こうやって見ると
政治家が束になっても世の中を変える
なんてできない
それが出来るのは
身を捨てる覚悟を持った一人の人間
そんな風にも思えます。
山上は母親が統一教会の信者になり
極貧の中で育ったために
その恨みを晴らした
そう言われていますが
昨日私に届いた手紙は
山上被告より１歳年下で
全く対照的な環境に生まれた人から来ました。
衆議院議員の小倉將信さんです。
この人は私の長男と同じ世代ですから
31歳で初当選した時には
もう私の息子たちの世代がここまで成長したのか？
と本当に感慨深かった物です。
山上被告と対照的だと言うのは
この小倉さんは
父親が医者で病院経営者と言う
大変裕福な家庭で育ってるのです。
東京大学からオックスフォードに進んでますから
本人も優秀だったからだと思いますが
いずれにしても学歴を積む事が許された恵まれた環境だったのです。
ところが山上被告は同じように優秀だったと言われていますが
環境に恵まれず
進学の機会に恵まれなかった
同じ才能を持っていても
環境によってここまで人生が違う
って訳です。
まぁ山上はその自分の置かれた環境を恨んで
犯行に走ったと思いますが
結果は本人が意図した事では無いと思いますが
日本の政治の大改革を成し遂げた
で小倉さん
こっちもしかしたら
正攻法で日本を良くしたい
そんな志で政治家になったのかも知れませんが
残念ながら
こっちはその志は遂げられませんね。
届いた手紙は
衝撃的な内容でした。
それは次回の衆議院選挙には立候補せずに引退する
って話です。
その若さで、自民党のホープだと言われてるのに
なぜ？
って思いますよね。
中身には理由が書いてありました
病気だそうです。
その病気のために
議員が続けられない
って事です。
何の病気か分かりませんが
重い病気だってのは伝わってきます。
山上と小倉さんの人生を見ると
私が子供の頃祖母が良く言ってた
”人の人生は念仏鐘を聞くまで分からない“
って言葉を思い出しますね。
人の成功とか失敗
また幸福とか不幸
これは逆転する事が多いから
いちいち嘆くな
って話です。
The election is coming up soon.
When the election comes,
all the candidates will sing the chorus of reform
and shout loudly that Japan will be ruined if things continue like this
but at my age,
I have been heard that since I was young,
and Japan never gets any worse,
So when I hear that word
I look down those candidates
It is not only in Japan
Trump said
If he loose
The world will disappear
The world will disappear?
I can't imagine it,
Is he thinking that he will fire off hydrogen bombs?
But if he loses, he will not have the nuclear button, so that will not happen either.
Anyway, politicians are only thinking about winning,
so their brain will deteriorate to fail differentiate their lose and end of the world
their delusions may worsen to this extent.
It would be dangerous to let such a person hold the nuclear button.
The US is voting next month,
I would like all citizens to keep in mind the danger of letting Trump hold the nuclear button when making their decision.
In Japan right now,
the issue of LDP official endorsement has become a big topic.
Cruelly, a list of politicians with slush funds was published in the newspaper the day before yesterday.
It's shocking to see it again.
I don't know if "slush funds" is the right word, but in any case,
a list of 48 politicians who did not report their political funding was published,
and most of them are former Abe faction politicians.
45 of the 48 are Abe faction politicians,
and the remaining three are Nikai faction politicians.
It seems that the story will end up like this: six of the Class A war criminals will not be able to get the party's official endorsement.
Shinzo Abe and Toshiki Nikai, these two once dominated the LDP,
but when they fall from power, this is what happens.
When they were alive, the LDP politicians couldn't go against Shinzo Abe...
Those who cling to power should take a good look at this.
But it's ironic, isn't it?
No matter how much politicians shout "reform, reform" on the microphone,
they can't make any reforms.
But an unemployed young man named Tetsuya Yamagami, born in 1980, has completely overturned Japanese politics.
Looking at it this way,
it seems that politicians can't change the world even if they join forces.
It only takes one person who is prepared to sacrifice themselves to do that.
It's said that Yamagami's mother became a member of the Unification Church
and he was raised in extreme poverty,
so he took revenge.
But the letter I received the day before yesterday was from someone who is one year younger than Yamagami and was born in a completely different environment.
It's from Mr. Masanobu Ogura, a member of the House of Representatives.
He is from the same generation as my eldest son,
so when he was first elected at the age of 31,
I was really moved and thought,
"Has my sons' generation really grown up?"
In contrast to Yamagami,
Ogura grew up in a very wealthy family,
his father being a doctor and a hospital owner.
He went from Tokyo University to Oxford,
so I think it was because he was a good student himself, but in any case, he was in a privileged environment where he was allowed to continue his education.
However, Yamagami is said to have been just as good, but he was not blessed with a good environment and did not have the opportunity to continue his education.
Even if you have the same talent,
your life can be so different depending on your environment.
I think Yamagami committed the crime out of resentment for the environment he was in,
but although I don't think it was what he intended,
he achieved a major reform of Japanese politics.
And Ogura, perhaps he became a politician with the desire to improve Japan in a legitimate way,
but unfortunately, he will not be able to achieve that goal.
The letter I received was shocking.
It said that he would not run in the next House of Representatives election and would retire.
At such a young age,
he was said to be the hope of the LDP, so why?
You might wonder.
The reason was written inside.
It seems that he is ill.
He cannot continue as a member of parliament due to this illness.
I don't know what kind of illness it is,
but it is clear that it is a serious illness.
Looking at the lives of Yamagami and Ogura,
I am reminded of the words my grandmother used to say when I was a child:
"You can't understand a person's life until you hear the prayer bell."
The point is that people's successes and failures,
happiness and misfortune,
often reverse,
so don't complain about everything.
