How the KMT could save itself

My money are on no 2. That said, the DPP will ensure that there are enough scandals about the KMT.

KMT should change its party emblem so that the ROC flag no longer some sort of an KMT representation. At the same time I think DPP should change its own and remove the map of Taiwan.

This cartoon shows the blogic, blue-logic, that prompts people to claim the KMT emblem is somehow different from the ROC emblem.

I think the McDonalds logo is a great replacement. China can take the KFC one. The US can tale Starbucks, Canada can take Tim Horton…

If the Republicans win the US presidential election…

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And if the Democrats win it (especially Hillary)…

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The flag of Florida is still an homage to the Confederacy. Plenty of Southern American flags still are. Of course, the Confederacy lost. The ROC lost on the mainland, but they won Taiwan.

Instead of coming up with different symbols, all Taiwanese political parties could instead adopt a variation of the ROC/KMT sun distinguished only by the size of the white sun relative to the blue circle.

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So the KMT has now lost the Presidential election in 2020, and subsequently suffered a series of recent setbacks, including initiating and supporting four referendums and then losing all four. They then lost a by-election they had precipitate by recalling Chen Po-wei, leading that seat in Taichung to be handed to the ruling DPP.

What would it take for the KMT to turn things around? The first step, argues SOAS Professor Dafydd Fell in the piece linked below, is to learn lessons from their series of defeats since 2014. There’s little indication that they are doing so.

Guy

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Remember Hung Hsiu-chu? For newbies, this was the KMT’s preferred candidate for our nation’s president in 2016—eventually yanked by the party as it was clear her views on cross-strait matters made her unelectable.

She’s apparently now in Beijing for the opening of the Genocide Olympics, because of course she is.

Guy

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You certainly called #2. Nice one.

  1. Stop giving interviews

So much cringe.

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More drama from the KMT, this time regarding the nomination of former premier (and Han Kuo-yu’s 2020 running mate) Simon Chang (張善政) as the party’s nominee to be Taoyuan’s next mayor in the upcoming municipal election. The excellent C Donovan Smith writing at Taiwan News tracks the drama, blow by blow:

Guy

He resigned from his Taipei city council seat recently and purchased a home in Taoyuan to move his household registration there in order to continue his run.

I love how this guy can just simply get up purchase a house in Taoyuan on a dime to say he lives there. And people will vote for him despite not being Taoyuanian or likely not understanding Taoyuan’s needs. They treat this country like it’s their own chess board to play with.

Tone deaf and out of touch.

Just to be clear for casual readers of this thread: Marco is referring to former Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強), one of the other KMT wannabe candidates, not to Simon Chang.

Remember when former Taipei Mayor Hau parachuted into Keelung to run as a candidate for the legislative yuan? Keelung voters—remember, this had been a KMT stronghold since like forever—said “no.”

We’ll see how this plays out in Taoyuan . . .

Guy

you’d have to be pretty desperate to move to Taoyuan by choice.

sorry Taoyuan, but you never made the earth move for me.

The place is changing, from the terrible pit you no doubt recall to a family friendly municipality for the many people who:

a) cannot afford Taipei City’s ludicrous housing prices; and
b) prefer not to be packed into the former Taipei County’s densest districts.

In short, parts of it seem to have become satellite towns, much like Sanxia, Danshui, and Linkou (and increasingly Keelung too). New people moving in, new demographics—and, as the Keelung case demonstrates, new voting patterns too.

Guy

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羅 is quite popular and was refused by the party to run in taoyuan. Dunno why. They are weird and stupid

Eric Chu’s time as party chair is . . . not going great so far:

  • failed to recalled Freddy Lim;
  • handed Taichung 2 to the DPP after supporting the recall of Chen Po-wei;
  • turned the Taoyuan candidate nomination process into more infighting

What are these guys doing.

Guy

It’s not really his fault, the party can’t and won’t solve its core problem/contradiction.

  • The core of its sub paying members are the 黃復興 old soldiers who are pro-unification. They always pay their membership fees and always vote internally on mass. No leadership candidate for the party cannot succeed without them on their side

  • The Taiwanese people on the whole and even most of the other KMT/blue people don’t want stronger ties with China and want to move away/decouple.

So every leader needs to try and find a shit compromise where nobody is happy and the party is unelectable

They decided to nominate the gangster family Yen guy for the Taichung by-election.

They decided to skipped the polling and put their preferred candidate Simon Chang in place for the Taoyuan race.

There’s lots of things they are doing that look dubious to me. And what a waste as people must be getting tired of the DPP now with all the COVID chaos.

Guy

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Yeah they are weird and just keep talking reforming without doing anything. They still in theory have a large base of blue voters/people who don’t like DPP, but are just incompetent

If they drop/go against the 黃復興 then the party will have no funds