Chapter 933: Surprise Attack
On Saturday morning, the entire West knew that Dohrin was going to run in the general election in two years, but Dohrin did not say which state he would run for governor for the time being, leaving a lot of suspense.
After Memnon's death, a large number of grassroots political forces in the west fell into a vacuum, and under the compromise between the new party and the old party, both sides sent a large number of officials to fill the grassroots in the west, but the governor did not change. There was one member of the old party and two members of the new party among the governors of the three western states, and there were originally only two states in the west, but a large number of middle classes, wanting to get rid of the impression of being rural people in backward areas, called a referendum, and the west became three states instead of two states, and these middle classes got their wish and got closer to the central and southern parts of the empire, although they were still westerners.
They claim to be central or southerners, and are reluctant to admit that they are westerners, even though they are westerners and cannot change that fact for a short time.
Dühring and Hirsman argue that the new state is not a good state to run for because there is so much of a middle class that will be more inclined to the old party in order to shake off the impression that they can launch a referendum. The "elitist society" proposed by the old party in recent years is very popular with the middle class, and the so-called elitist society is, to put it bluntly, an alternative class restoration. The idea of pulling out the middle class, the mainstay of society, as an elite class, has left many middle classes ecstatic.
Under the encouragement of the old party, many middle-class people are somewhat dissatisfied with the current social environment, and they think that their contribution to society and the country is far greater than that of others, but they do not enjoy special treatment. They are no different from ordinary people who can only earn fifty or sixty yuan a month, they need recognition from the whole society, not just the middle class to describe them, they also need respect.
In the old party's philosophy, the elite of society should enjoy better treatment and more benefits. They make up about 10 to 20 percent of the country's population, but they contribute more than 70 percent of the country's population, and they represent the most important part of a country's power, which should be different from the bottom of society.
This is in line with the majority of middle-class families, many of whom are supporting the old party, donating all kinds of funds for them, and spontaneously defending the interests of the old party.
After Durin took the lead in implementing the household registration system in the city of Otis, the old party has been planning a new household registration system, a hierarchical and hierarchical social household registration system, and they have also engaged in a social point system to improve the level of household registration.
There is a certain amount of antipathy among ordinary people, but not all of them are disgusted with the rhetoric of the old party, and there are always some pretentious people who think that they will soon be able to enter the middle class and become an elite class that is different from ordinary people. There are not a few people who hold this idea, and the popularization of education and the emergence of various vocational schools have given a lot of opportunities to those at the bottom of society, giving them a ladder to a higher level. When these people have spent the most arduous study time through several times the efforts of others, and have spent their youth on studying, they have reaped varying degrees of success.
However, this kind of success can not be better reflected in the difference between oneself and others, in addition to wealth. For example, if a middle-class person with an annual income of 2,000 yuan eats in a restaurant, and the people sitting at the table around him may be those who are at the bottom of the society with an annual income of only a few hundred yuan, how does this reflect their unique and superhuman style? What they need is privilege, a different treatment, something completely separate from the bottom society!
There is an essential difference between the new party and the old party in terms of concept, the political program and ruling ideas of the new party are more inclined to free competition, and it will not give privileges to certain people, nor will it deliberately suppress certain people. This is a very good environment for some really capable people, similar to the law of the jungle society in the increasing competitiveness of a group of unqualified people to precipitate into the grassroots of the society, some capable people and then evolved into the middle and high level of society.
Although it is not absolutely fair, it is at least relatively fair, because everyone has a chance, everyone is the same as each other, and no one is destined to succeed and no one is destined to fail.
The program and management methods of the old party were different, the old party put the class into a new dress and then pushed it to the front of the stage, and many people were so confused by the new clothes that they could not see what was behind the new clothes. The social upgrading system is the set of things that the old party is best at, and Tennell was implementing this system at the beginning. They emphasize fairness, everyone starts from nothing, little by little, and as long as they make corresponding contributions to society, they will inevitably get corresponding feedback.
According to the concept of the old party, everyone has a ladder in front of them, and as long as everyone follows the social system, they can go down the ladder, constantly improve their status in society, and have more benefits and privileges. But in fact, these people have artificially set up a few small levels so that no one can find them. If an ordinary person wants to become a middle and high-level member of society, in addition to his own efforts, he also needs to make enough connections.
So how can an ordinary person who has nothing get to know some connections that can give him the opportunity to be promoted?
The answer is simple, benefit delivery!
During Durin's stay in Turner City, there were a few people who could really walk up the stairs and cross the threshold, all of whom were so-called "tycoons" and the like.
It can be found from the people of Goldall and Woodcutter that they developed according to the requirements of the old party in a predetermined environment, and that each stage changed a form, but the essence did not change. They gain the recognition of the upper class by conveying benefits, and then give them a key to open the door to promotion, so as to obtain a promotion in society. They became the "victims" of this social system, and at the same time they were vested interests, which was precisely the way in which those who supported the old party were most approved.
In other words, under the social system run by the old party, the lower society must obey the higher society, otherwise there is no way out, a dead end, so that in many cases individual ability has no value in the promotion of the social level. As long as you know the key person, you can make a breakthrough in social hierarchy.
After all, it has only been more than 20 years since the empire came out of feudal rule, and there are still many countries with feudal systems in the whole world, and for the citizens of the current age, they are still in the conflict and contradiction between the old and new systems. The new party's emphasis on personal ability and the old party's relationship with social development have their own supporters, even if the royal family has abdicated for more than 20 years, is it different that some people miss the days of being ruled by the royal family or the aristocracy every day?
The culture received by the main part of the population is the greatest difference between the new party and the old party.
Most of the young people born after the new party came to power did not like the old party's set of things, but now the middle class and the top of society are the beneficiaries of the old system, and they are more willing to support and uphold the ideas of the old party. If the royal family can be restored, they are probably the staunchest supporters.
Avoiding middle-class and older states was Hersman's advice to Dühring, where it was not easy to defeat the old party, and unless Dühring could offer a more advanced and advanced social system than the ideas of the old and new parties, there would not be many people who supported him.
On the contrary, Hersman thinks that the latter two states are actually more suitable for Doolin to run, and the reason is simple: the other two states do not have a large middle class, and most of them are at the bottom of society, farmers, miners, or whatever. Most of these people were Durin's employees, and they were on the fringes of the empire, and neither the way they had access to information nor their recognition of the empire was sufficient. The closed social environment makes the social ecology here still in a slightly barbaric situation, in a slightly presumptuous phrase, this group of people are a group of people with a weak sense of state, they have not received much education, the barbaric western society makes these people value their own interests more, as long as there are enough benefits, they will not mind who to vote for.
Hirsman also knows very well that the governor is just a springboard that Durin wants, he can't stay in the west for the rest of his life, just to make the people here live a little better, he will definitely work towards the center of the empire, it doesn't matter which state he chooses, the important thing is that he must be able to choose.
There was no objection to Hirschmann's plan, and as Hersman had thought, all he needed was the position of governor.
After announcing that he was going to run for office, Doolin soon left the West, and he needed to record a few shows for broadcast, at least to let people know what the benefits of choosing Doolin would be, and what changes would be bringing. This was also one of Hirsman's plans for Dühring, to start promoting the plan as early as possible that would be beneficial for the future.
It was also at this time that Saint Lo was attacked by surprise.
An army that had passed through the primeval forest and suddenly appeared on the periphery of Saint Lodu attacked Saint Lodu, as a member of the fifth city chain, Saint Lodu obviously did not arrange any defensive measures, and the main force of the imperial army was still in a tug-of-war with the federal army in the third city chain, who would have thought that there would be an army that crossed the primeval forest with a diameter of more than two hundred kilometers and directly attacked the rear?
At the moment when a shelling sounded, the whole city was in chaos.
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