Volume 13 The Moral Struggle Chapter 61 From Cold to Hot
And. The U.S. midterm elections of the year. It can be seen as a watershed moment in the Cold War between China and the United States.
In this election, the most surprising thing was not the victory of the Democratic New Party, but the absolute victory of the Democratic New Party.
In the new year, the news media in the United States made predictions about the mid-term general election, believing that the Democratic New Party will make a comeback after the change of leadership, fully wield the influence of the Qinnian general election, win over more voters, and gain more support. Especially at the end of the year, when preparations for the midterm elections are actively underway, the Republic is making a fuss about European security, making more American news media believe that the Democratic New Party led by Duchway can not only win the support of hawkish voters, but also win over a large number of neutral voters. You must know that among the voters in the United States, neutral voters account for more than 60 percent, while hardcore voters of all parties are only a minority. In this way, whoever can win the support of neutral voters will win the general election. Become the master of the White House or the ruler of Congress. It was precisely in this way that at the beginning of the calendar year, with the approval of the US Congress of the proposal for additional appropriations for the defense budget. Coupled with the fact that the Republic announced its government budget for the new fiscal year in the middle of the year, all the US news media believe that the victory of the Democratic New Party in the midterm elections is a foregone conclusion.
The problem is that before the midterm elections, the most discussed thing in the US news media is not the extent to which the DPP can win, but whether the DPP will support the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or be independent in the next two years, because this will affect the presidential election in two years.
It can be seen from this that the news media in the United States at that time believed that it was impossible for the DPP to win a majority in the House of Representatives.
You know, with the American political system; It is more difficult to control the House of Representatives than to live in the White House.
The U.S. House of Representatives is legally electrified, and the allocation of seats is based on the population of each state, and each state must have at least a thug named U.S. House of Representatives. Other words. U.S. House members are actually elected individually by each state, and in theory they need the support of at least a quarter of the U.S. electorate to control the House of Representatives. For a political party that has not been around for a few years. It's almost impossible. To know. Even Republicans and Democrats will find it difficult to dominate the House of Representatives for a long time. About half of the history of the United States, the House of Representatives is not exactly aligned with the White House.
Taking the election of the House of Representatives as an example, if we do not have strong strength, I am afraid that there will not even be enough members of the House of Representatives. Although the Democratic New Party comes from the Democratic Party. And it has the support of a veteran Republican Party member like Mrs. Loeblin, and has a very wide network, but in such a short period of time. The chances of the New Party winning more than half of the seats in the House of Representatives are almost nil.
In fact, after the founding of the Democratic New Party, it regarded the White House as a goal to strive for, rather than to become the owner
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Given the national conditions of the United States, even if the Democratic New Party wins the general election in the Year of the Bird, it will take at least a year to become the dominant force in Congress. Judging from the situation in the past two years, if there are no accidents, the DPP may become the big party in the House of Representatives, and it is even possible to become the second largest party by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, but it is almost impossible to become the first largest party or even the majority party.
The problem is that there was an accident before the election began.
It can be said that the Democratic New Party has become the biggest beneficiary of the US news media's hype of the "Eastern threat theory."
As mentioned earlier, before the start of the general election. Because the situation is not clear, neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has set a slogan with sufficient appeal, and the Republican and Democratic candidates in each state can only fight their own battles. Such a situation can only bring disaster. Take the Democratic Party, for example. In California, the slogan of "economic construction" is to improve relations with the republics and other eastern countries across the ocean, and make full use of the geographical advantages of the United States to increase economic expansion so that voters can obtain tangible benefits. In New York State, however, the Democratic slogan is "unconventional security," declaring that the Republican Party's traditional security thinking is outdated and that it wants to effectively protect American interests. There should be a new way of thinking about security and make a greater contribution to the enhancement of the international standing of the United States. Although the different slogans have a lot to do with the actual situation, because California is the state most closely associated with the Republic, and it is also the most populous and economically developed state in the United States, while New York faces the Atlantic Ocean and is the traditional "New England" region, and it is not closely related to the Republic, and the economic development is not as strong as that of California. But this diametrically opposed slogan makes it difficult for voters to understand what the Democrats are trying to do. The situation of the Republicans is very similar to that of the Democrats, and with the federal government failing to find its way, it is impossible for the local legislators to come up with a unanimous slogan.
In the past, it wouldn't have been much of a problem.
In any case, before the era, there were only two political parties in the United States, and if two political parties made the same mistake, at most the voters were not highly motivated to participate in the election. For example, in the general election, neither Al Gore of the Democratic Party nor George W. Bush of the Republican Party came up with a slogan that would make voters excited, nor did they make many promises, so the turnout in the election that year was the lowest since World War II.
The problem is that in the midterm general election of Tian year, it is not just the two major parties that are contesting, but the three major parties.
It is precisely for this reason that as long as the DPP can put forward a clear-cut slogan, even if it does not have much appeal, as long as it can unify its pace, it will be able to talk about the different body clams in the Dajian book, and say that the DPP will not only put forward a clear slogan, but also hit the nail on the head, combining the national interests and international status of the United States with the economic exhibition, and holding that in order to promote the economic exhibition, it is necessary to raise the international status of the United States, so as to protect the national interests of the United States. In other words, as long as the national interests of the United States are involved, a tough policy should be adopted. It is by no means a concession in the interests of the country.
This attitude actually caters to the interests of the majority of the middle class.
Taking the U.S. manufacturing industry as an example, it is precisely because of the decline in the international territory of the United States that the share of U.S. products in the international market has decreased sharply. Although the United States is still the world's largest consumer and the world's largest importer, as long as the domestic market is protected, most American companies will not have a survival problem. But as the economy unfolded, especially after the Great Depression, the problem of America's lack of influence in overseas markets was exposed. According to a survey data released by the United Labor Union of the American Iron and Steel Industry Union in Wannian, the shrinking overseas market share due to the decline in the country's prestige has at least cost Jinwan American workers their jobs. What's more, the U.S. international footprint is still decreasing. There will be more Americans who will lose their jobs.
It can be said that American voters are very dissatisfied with the policies of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
The problem is that before that, American voters have no third option.
That's exactly what happened in the general election of the Year of the Forcebird. It was the fledgling Democratic New Party that posed a serious threat to the Republican Party, narrowly missing out on victory in the general election. According to some information that was later declassified, if it weren't for the then Republican President Randers who used his influence to get several major interest groups that could influence the election situation to express their support for the Republican Party, I am afraid that the president who lived in the White House at the beginning of the month of the four thugs would not have been from the Republican Party.
All in all, by the end of the year, the anger of American voters against the traditional parties of the two husbands had not dissipated. It's even stronger.
In fact, this is the crux of Dugway's "spring theory".
For many years, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have been in power in the United States. Although in the past. The two major political parties have done many miracles, and it can even be said that they have created America in the modern sense. For example, the Republican president commanded the US military to win the Second Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Mexican-American War, and the Spanish-American War, making the United States a great power, while the Democratic president commanded the US military to win World War I and World War II, making the United States the world's number one power. But in recent decades, the two major parties have fared very poorly. What's more. The United States is a country with no history, and Americans value the future, not the past.
When the two major parties are unable to lead the United States through the storm and achieve the achievement of a new husband, a third option will surely emerge.
When voters' dissatisfaction with the Democrats and Republicans bursts out, the results can be imagined.
When the results of the midterm elections came out in August, almost no one believed that the Democratic New Party had not only become the largest party in the US Congress, but also the majority party. In the House of Councillors election, the Democratic New Party won the largest number of seats, becoming the third largest party. More importantly, after the DPP won two seats in the year before winning one seat, neither the Republicans nor the Democratic Party were able to control more than half of the seats in the Senate, so the DPP became an important force in the Senate.
Apparently. This can no longer be used with "victory." to describe it.
Of course, there are some troubles that arise from this.
After the election results, the Republicans and Democrats appealed to the federal court almost simultaneously, arguing that the election was illegal such as fraud and demanding a recount. The new address of this site has been changed to: Talk about the fetus o waki, please read in vain!
There is no doubt that this is definitely a joke on American democracy.
You know, after the Second World War. The United States has preached its democratic institutions around the world and has prided itself as a model for global democracies. It is also trying to "transform" other countries, hoping that other countries can become democracies like the United States. Of course, the real purpose of the US authorities is to control other countries through democratic transformation, so as to achieve the goal of plundering the resources of other countries. Take the Philippines as an example, as the first colony of the United States, strictly speaking, and the only colony of the United States, the Philippines was under the control of the United States as early as the beginning of the century. After World War II, under the influence of the wave of independence, especially the Vietnam War, the United States not only opened up the Philippines, but also hoped to make the Philippines a model of democratic politics in the Western Pacific region, so as to promote American values. As a result, the post-independence Philippines was plagued by wars, family politics and economic backwardness, if not for the collapse of Japan. I am afraid that by the middle of the century, the Philippines will still be one of the poorest and most backward countries in the world.
To a pound. In highly democratic countries, the parties participating in the elections are skeptical about the fairness and fairness of the general election.
Although there have been similar situations before, such as in the fourth general election, Gore believed that there was a problem with the counting of votes, but in no single general election, the political parties came out to demand a recount, and all the votes were counted.
Obviously, this is definitely a great irony of American-style democracy.
In fact, the federal court did not recount the votes after accepting the Democrats and Republicans. It was only through negotiation that some of the controversial selections were recounted.
The important thing is that the results did not change because of this.
After this toss, the fierce bow day. The results of the U.S. Supreme Court election in Fulb are valid. Minxin Ai won a seat in the Senate, becoming the majority party in the House of Representatives and the third largest party in the Senate, and the second largest party in the United States, surpassing the Democratic Party.
According to American tradition, between the midterm elections. The members of the Democratic New Party are as many as thugs.
In the middle of the year, the first thing the newly formed House of Representatives did was to reorganize the main functional committees, including the Military Commission, and to consider the budget submitted by the federal government at the end of July.
As expected, with the support of the Democratic New Party, the US federal government has budgeted more than one trillion dollars in the fiscal year, which is about the amount of the gross national product (GDP) in the first year. It became the largest federal budget since World War II. In this trillion-dollar order, the national defense sector has calculated public welfare spending to $7 trillion, an increase of as much as a skyrocket, and also set a post-World War II growth record.
In reality, the federal government's requirements are not so high. The new address of this site has been changed to: Talk about the fetus o waki, please read in vain!
In a sense, about 4 percent of the trillion-dollar federal budget is related to national defense, and in addition to $7 trillion in defense spending, $3 trillion is spent on national public infrastructure, and nearly $3 trillion is spent on various scientific research projects funded by the government, and together with foreign aid, a total of nearly one trillion dollars. Compared to the fiscal year, 80% of the increase in the budget is related to the above-mentioned items.
In accordance with the political system of the United States, the House of Representatives adopted the proposal. The support of the Senate is also needed.
Here's the key. If the DPP does not have that cluster of Senate seats, then no matter how much power it has in the House of Representatives, it will not be able to force the Republicans to comply. At that time, the Republican president wanted to succeed in the next two years, and if he was more ambitious, he planned to win the general election in the next year. It is necessary to give the DPP enough face to allow the DPP to give the Republican Party a lot of reform bills in the House of Representatives. For this reason, the Republicans will have to release the budget in the Senate for the full support of the Democratic New Party. More importantly, if the DPP unites with the Democratic Party. The same could be done in the Senate to put the budget bill into effect, thereby excluding the Republican Party from Congress altogether. Because according to US law, the president can only veto the same bill three times in a row at most, as long as the House of Representatives and the Senate work together, the president can be excluded from major national strategic decisions, leaving the White House completely vacant.
It is precisely in this way that this history-changing budget was signed by the President of the United States on the Fighting Day of the past year.
On this day, it is also called "black double!!" ”。 Although the news media in Europe are taking this catty. The name was mainly in memory of the passengers who died in the West Air crash that day, but later few people can remember the air crash that took the life of Xi Tiao, but the U.S. budget that turned the Cold War into a hot war.
It was also a very special day for the republic.
On the same day, Yan Jingyu officially approved the "National Defense Construction Reform Plan" submitted by Pei Chengyi. "The year-long process of modernization of the defense was officially launched.
In later words, this program was the war readiness plan.
To be precise, it is necessary to update the main equipment for the republican ** team within the year. Of course. What really needs to be done is definitely not as simple as updating equipment. According to the plan submitted by Pei Chengyi. While renewing equipment, it is also necessary to reorganize the armed forces in accordance with the new tactical system, and without expanding the size of the armed forces, strengthen the country's war mobilization system and have the ability to conduct war mobilization under any circumstances.
Without a doubt, this is a very large plan.
According to this plan, "before the day of the thug in July of the next year, we have to invest about one trillion yuan in start-up capital." And none of these investments come from the defense budget. Rather, it comes from the supplementary budget.
Tian Nian thuged and Yan Jingyu officially submitted the plan to the plenary congress.
Because the proposal has already received meta-support, it will officially enter into force as long as it is supported by the plenary assembly.
Although in the course of deliberations, some deputies pointed out that the new budget is too large and that it is necessary to raise funds by increasing the national debt, so as to have an impact on the economic construction of the republic.
However, the United States has already provided an annual budget with a high increase in the defense budget, and with the influence of the Military Council and other institutions, the plan was formally approved on the day of the Tsunakumi Month, granting the Yuan a special right to mobilize national resources and accelerate national defense construction.
At this point, the Cold War between China and the United States came to an end.
According to the accepted statement, after the United States and the Republic have successively increased defense spending, war between the two levels of great powers has become inevitable, although the cold war evolves into a hot war takes enough time, and no major power will challenge another major power without being ready for war, but whether the world war will break out is no longer a problem, or only a matter of time, and it will not drag on for too long!