단상斷想

I wonder how many people among the generation who, seeing the power struggle within the People Power Party, might recall the politics of the Constituent Assembly and the Liberal Party era after liberation, and feel the pain and anger at the tragedy of Korean history. The elderly should be adults and role models for the young to lean on, but they have only become failed, penniless old people as political citizens. Until politics became riddled with such rotten, foul-smelling modern history, today's elderly were also young and middle-aged. How on earth did you live your lives to pass on such corrupt and dirty politics to your descendants?

Over the past three years, Korean politics has filmed a third-rate pornographic comedy written by Myung Tae-kyun, directed by Jin Seong-bae, and directed by Kim Chung-sik. Numerous figures in the economic and political circles rushed to invest in this comedy, disguised as a serious play, and the judiciary lined up, thinking that it would be a real big profit. The political practice of this land, which believed that the drama of investors and the judiciary would guarantee success, was nothing more than those who knew the taste of the Liberty Party's politics trying to play money games disguised as dramas.

It's too miserable to call it a comedy, and if it's called a tragedy, the people all become ridiculous clowns. This is more like a circus. Like the acrobatic feats of clowns in the ring, the political show unfolding under the guise of electing a party leader makes the audience confused whether to laugh or cry. On the surface, they shout 'democratic procedure' and 'the future of the party,' but if you look inside, the greed and incompetence of a few power-hungry lawmakers are revealed. They are like sailors fighting for the captain's seat even though the ship is sinking. Whether the ship sinks or not, the important thing is to become the captain first. But the key is that they are relying on a far-right, hole-ridden life raft to take the captain's seat on a sinking ship.

The attempt to seize party leadership by joining forces with far-right forces is the culmination of self-justification that abandons conscience, and is virtually a crime, but these people are beasts in human skin, so their awareness of sin is low. In the past, they tried to strengthen their political standing by using the far right, and even now they are still unable to escape from that strategy, and it is a spectacle that they will finally reveal their ugliness in an increasingly worse way, as if trying to put out a fire by pouring oil on it. Of course, the fire will only get bigger. Yet they repeat the same mistake, saying, "This time will be different." I doubt whether the ability to learn even exists. Learning is political history, so it falls under history. It's been several generations since the Liberal Party era, but how could only bad habits have become ingrained to this extent, and why is political purification impossible for us?

The People Power Party has now become a stage for a human mask packaged under the name of 'conservative values'. A human mask means that you have given up being human once you put it on. They are holding different scores, but it is a chorus of human masks all singing the song of 'power struggle' with the same pitch. There is no conductor, and the tempo is not right. They are just raising their voices to show their presence. Anyway, the party will roll on no matter who listens, so their genes, which benefited from the failure to liquidate pro-Japanese collaborators, a tragedy of colonial liberation, naturally result in dissonance with such brazen success-oriented, reckless expressions of humanity.

Recently, Jeon Han-gil's riotous performance within the party is the culmination of this chorus. His actions of shouting loudly from his seat during the meeting, obstructing the proceedings, and disrupting order within the party clearly show how uncontrollable, irresponsible, low-class, and idiotic this chorus is. He was like a performer who suddenly gets up and wildly hits the cymbals during an orchestra performance. It is instantaneous to ruin a beautiful melody. But what's even more absurd is that he thinks of his actions as a 'righteous cry.' Jeon Han-gil's riot is not a simple personal excitement. It is linked to the greed of party leaders who hesitate to break away from the far-right forces, and it is read as a calculated act to create confusion within the party and show off his political presence. The commotion he created became a detonator for setting off fireworks in addition to the chorus of human skin.

They do not realize that their chorus is a crime that is embarrassing to listen to, and they recognize it only as political noise. They mistake their dissonance for political white noise. Inside, high-sounding rhetoric like "for the future of the party" is exchanged, but in reality, their minds are filled with the narrow calculation of "if I become the party leader." The reason they hesitate to break with the far-right forces is also ridiculous. They are afraid that the support and momentum they can gain by abandoning them will disappear. This is like recommending that the public drink poisoned well water. Of course, they will not drink it. Even if far-right forces spread among the people, new religions increase, and pure people commit suicide because they cannot live, they are just people who only need to gain power. Drinking poisoned water may quench your thirst right away, but in the end, everyone dies and it becomes difficult for the country to exist. Why don't they know that? Political conscience and moral judgment are always secondary to their greed and desire for party leadership. It is doubtful whether conscience ever existed in the first place.

Watching their behavior, they seem intoxicated with their own image, like people dancing in front of a mirror. They dismiss the jeers as sabotage by jealous competitors. The People's Power Party has now fallen to the background music of the far right. Their irresponsibility and greed are like zombies eating away at the future of the country. Jeon Han-gil's rampage is justifying disorder and recklessness and is acting as a factor that further degrades the nation. Not only are they falling, but they are also increasing the speed of the fall. I wonder if the ruling party leader and floor leader, who continue to watch the chorus of human skin, are consulting between the party and the government. I wonder if they are already intoxicated with poison. Voters want a politician who will inherit the spirit of Roh Moo-hyun. They do not want to see a politician like Moon Jae-in, who became president by taking advantage of the media and owners who boasted about continuing the spirit of the candlelight. The ruling party leader or the ruling party floor leader, who are doing 'lip service' to the People's Power Party, which has lost even its basic function as a political party, should step down from their positions. Voters exercised their votes to represent the will of the people that the duty to dissolve the seditious party is the mission of the times, to contribute to national development through policies, and to contribute to the development of democracy.

The extreme measure of dissolving the People Power Party is the starting signal for the first liquidation of accumulated evils since liberation. The United States is the biggest reason for causing the confusion of liberation. What is so difficult about abolishing that history and information, exercising that power until now, and dissolving Yoon Seok-yeol, who wanted to declare martial law again from the president's seat and return to the bloody politics of decades past, and the party that condoned the insurrection under his command? Just as one rotten apple spoils the whole box, the Democratic Party leadership, infected with the corruption and incompetence of the insurrection party, should either complete the dissolution of the People Power Party or step down, instead of spreading poison throughout Korean politics. The real hypocrites may be more in some parts of the Democratic Party. It is the right of voters to expose their hypocrisy.