DPP Uses Youthful Protests

2-13-15

      I copied the paragraph in the last journal entry about the 119 fools in the so-called Sunflower Movement protests, meaningless protests that got nowhere and helped no one except the police who could fine-tune their reactions to the next useless student demonstration. I shouldn’t say “meaningless” protests. The protesters, encouraged and advised by certain clandestine agent provocateurs in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were the icing on the cake of Kuomintang defeat in the November 2014 elections. They did for the DPP youth vote what appointing washed up death metal egotist Freddy Lim “Youth Outreach Coordinator” couldn’t for Frank Shieh in the 2008 presidential election defeat to Ma Ying-Jeou. The DPP has learned to use the youth as sacrificial lambs for their own pro-American neo-liberal agenda. There is no “lesser of two evils” in a choice between Chinese and American power in Taiwan. The working people must have the power and there is only one way to get it: clandestinely through direct action in the workplace. After seventy-eight years of the United States de-facto colonization of Taiwan, a “Free China” free for only big business interests, and the same lack of democracy, though more transparently anti-union, Chinese power take-over is not the answer either, in the short-run. Until the youth of Taiwan get off their skinny asses and start educating, agitating, and organizing themselves into workers unions, wages in Taiwan will continue to tumble down to Mainland Chinese levels until working here or there is interchangeable in wages, already at the level it was in Taiwan sixteen years ago. A Chinese worker’s salary in some cities has already caught up to the Taiwan worker’s salary. For a family in Taiwan or China to survive, fighting for independent union rights is the only way out.