Dear Comrade Leader, Episode 336
Side Story, ‘Politics and Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Region’ course
The autumn of Georgetown University, which faces the Potomac River, the lifeline of Washington, was beautiful and relaxing.
Autumn in Washington in September was cool, pleasant, and clear, demonstrating how attractive the eastern United States can be when the weather is favorable to its inhabitants.
It’s a pity that it’s not the students who are enjoying the historic university campus of this historic city the most, but mostly tourists.
In any case, there was a strange excitement mixed with anticipation and enthusiasm on the faces of some of the students who were working from building to building, moving from building to building, as if they couldn’t even see the beautiful campus view with fallen leaves. It was because of the instructor of some lecture to attend.
Of course, as the school they attend now is Georgetown University, which produces the largest number of future leaders who will lead politicians and diplomats in the United States and the Western world, they are high-ranking people, both former and present, who fart in politics (with a little exaggeration) often As you can see, today this person was a bit special even by the standards of this university.
The former Distinguished Professor, who will give a lecture today on ‘Politics and Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Region’, which they will be listening to in the lecture hall of the Georgetown University Main Building, is not an aide, a minister, or a president, but rather the general secretary, that is, the dictator of a communist country. peel.
“Hmm, it’s been a while since the semester started, but today, there are a lot of audition students, so I think I’ll have to briefly introduce myself again. Nice to meet you, everyone. My name is Junghwan Kim, just Professor Kim, or you can call me Chairman Kim, the title I currently hold at the Northeast Asian Balanced Security Foundation. And speaking of my career… … .”
“I don’t think I need to explain that part because it’s so famous, Professor Kim? It’s not the first time something like this has happened, and I think the people who are standing behind me right now have come to know the professor’s fame without knowing anything else… … .”
-Ha ha ha ha ha… … !!!
As a joke from one of the students and a brief laugh swept through the classroom, a professor standing at the pulpit and former general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Jeong-hwan shrugged his shoulders.
Clearly, several years after Junghwan left his home country and arrived in the United States and was appointed to this position, his fame (or notoriety) was still growing.
It’s barely quieted these days, but on his first day at the university, two opposing groups of people taking a selfie with him and protesters holding signs reading ‘You dictator get out of America, wake up Georgetown vs. Human Resources!’ I still vividly remember how hard it was for him to be in a scramble for him rather than a scramble for it.
The latter’s ‘Get Out of the Dictator’ group is quiet these days as the campus police quickly suppressed it without his bodyguards coming out, and the former’s ‘Would you like me to sign? If possible, take selfies’ crowd… … In fact, it was a bit burdensome, so I was still avoiding it.
“Thank you, Andrew. Then, skip that part and proceed with the lecture from the last time. Last time we discussed how the coronavirus, which is now sweeping the world, will affect the political leadership of each country. Speaking of which, I really like how everyone wore masks and wore them. My students are at least not stupid… … It has been proven that he has both attentiveness and intellect, and that he knows how precious his life is.”
Jeonghwan’s tone was calm and there was a little laughter this time too, but it was noticeably smaller than before.
As everyone in this room knows, the coronavirus, Covid-19, or Wuhan pneumonia, which has been spreading around the world since March of this year, has changed the entire planet with unprecedented transmission and fatality rates.
And now, here in the United States, the health insurance system, racial conflict, and the general American ignorance of the dangers of the virus, which had been ineffective for a long time, overlapped, and the mortality rate was superior to that of other continents or countries.
At least the current president, who has been calling for health insurance reform since then, joined forces with the quarantine authorities and the National Guard to overcome the first wave of the pandemic and suppress the death toll at the level of tens of thousands (?), but all Experts were still warning that it was too early to be vigilant.
In fact, it was only recently that they were given permission to sit in a classroom like this now and host a lecture face-to-face.
And sweeping the classroom, which had become more serious than before, Jeonghwan slowly entered the main topic of today’s lecture.
“ruler… … So, do the students who attended the last lecture remember that I commented that this virus burst out all the problems of the present United States at once and showed the public? What were the problems I listed then?”
“You said it was an insurance system distorted by racial conflict and lobbying by big pharmaceutical companies, a broken public education, and ultimately the gap between the rich and the poor.”
“… … In addition to that, there was also the non-cooperation of the people due to the excessive individualistic tradition that had been latent from the early days of the founding of this country. That’s why the US and European countries are having a harder time right now, while Asian countries in general are relatively well contained in the pandemic.”
“… … !!!”
In response to Junghwan’s muttering, some students and some of the audience members who were listening to the part that specifically referred to ‘excessive individualistic tradition’ looked slightly uncomfortable, but could not open their mouths.
And whether Junghwan also didn’t notice or he didn’t care, he flipped through the projector slide and went to the screen where a middle-aged woman was sitting in the Oval Office.
The old woman, with blonde hair, silver-rimmed glasses and an impressive intellectual appearance, was named Elizabeth Warren, the 45th President of the United States.
“I am fortunate that the person in the White House right now is President Warren Democrats. After the election and the pandemic, socialists, after the election and the pandemic, from the Republican-centered opposition, took all the outrageous accusations of being fascists and communists, and actively campaigned for social distancing and wearing a mask. Of course, it will be decided in two months if that can continue, but… … .”
“… … Sheesh, that’s absurd, Professor Kim. But isn’t it true that the current President Warren is a socialist? On a fictional day, the root of all evil is large corporations such as Amazon and ExxonMobil, and all citizens are obliged to purchase health insurance. … .”
Jeonghwan turned his head at the sound of shouts that erupted from the corner of the classroom and fixed his gaze on a white male student with short hair with a dissatisfied expression on his face.
Jeonghwan quickly recalled the personal information about the boy who received it without avoiding his gaze with a somewhat challenging look.
Brian Perry, a Texas Oil board member, has a marrow Republican father, and is the type to go to the school basketball court more often than the library.
Although he is a genuine feminist and Democrat, he is working hard to hide his disposition, but in a report submitted to Jung-hwan, he judged that ‘Putting pressure on a country that oppresses sexual minorities with human rights issues is unnecessary interference in internal affairs and a waste of US diplomatic power’.
In addition, it was information such as posting a photo of a shop looted and burning by protesters while the BLM (Black Lives Matter: Black Lives Matter) movement was intensifying on campus social media and hastily taken it down within minutes.
If Jeonghwan had looked around the classroom a little bit earlier, he would have noticed that Brian was one of the few who had an uncomfortable look at his early lecture on the cause of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
However, without revealing these facts at all, Jeonghwan asked Brian again in a calm tone.
“Oh, Brian-kun. I think I have more to say, but don’t worry about the topic of the lecture and keep going. hurry. As you know, the essence of our class is discussion. And in the first place, if you take away the debate from politics and diplomacy, what is left?”
“What… … It’s just a story about whether President Warren’s identity is too obvious. I’m glad that Congress blocked it in the meantime. Perhaps if we had gone a little further, we would have said we should nationalize Silicon Valley by now, right? Self-quarantine is a fascist idea.”
“Hmm, okay, so, who is against this opinion? Oh, there, Samantha?”
“yes! I just think Brian’s comment is nonsense! Fascist, you. Just be honest and say, ‘Warren’s a socialist!’ literally the first thing you want to say, Bryan? Just like in the last case study, you unconditionally oppose policies that prevent even the slightest bit of looting of the poor and people of color by greedy multinational corporations by attaching a label like that.”
Samantha Gillibrand, a scholarship student from California.
Guardian, BuzzFeed Addict, High Grade, internships at the re-election camp of a New York State Democratic female senator and has tweeted several congratulations on legalizing same-sex marriage.
When a white female student jumped up from her seat and rebutted Brian with politically sensitive words, the classroom atmosphere froze for a moment, but when Professor Jeonghwan didn’t seem to be bothered, it soon changed to an atmosphere of interesting observation.
And Brian, who was counterattacked, waved his hands as if to calm down and took a step back.
“for a moment! Samantha. I never said Warren was a fascist! just… … What I’m trying to say is that the federal government shouldn’t restrict the freedom of movement of citizens just because there’s a virus that’s no different from a bad cold. I don’t know how much Warren’s views influenced that policy, but frankly, the fact that she’s the current president doesn’t put the brakes on policies that infringe on the constitutional rights of citizens… … The answer is obvious, isn’t it?”
“In that way, carrying an automatic rifle to shoot at elementary school students is the freedom guaranteed by the Constitution, and making discriminatory comments that demean blacks, homosexuals, and Muslims is the freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution? God, there are so many kids like you in our age, and it’s a miracle that Warren legalized same-sex marriage without the Republicans caught up in it.”
As evidenced by the debate between Samantha and Bryan, the current president, Elizabeth Warren, was recognized even within the Democratic Party and, no, was an unprecedented progressive president in American history.
Full and strong regulation of large investment banks, including Wall Street.
Compulsory enrollment in national public health insurance.
Proposed a bill to make a preemptive nuclear attack on other countries impossible at the constitutional level.
Full support for minorities in reforming the current political fund system, represented by Super Pak… … .
Warren’s political affiliation, the second consecutive female president since Condoleezza Rice’s resignation, was elected in a freedom-loving United States, where the term Socialist is almost half (100% in the Southern Republican states) an insult. It was incredibly progressive.
Experts believe that Warren’s election, which would have been highly likely to be cut off from the primary due to his excessively hard-line progressive tendencies, was due to a kind of ‘reactionary psychology’ possessed by Democrats’ supporters of the 12-year Republican administration after Al Gore. .
Two Republican presidents, a woman named Condoleezza Rice after John McCain, and the Democrats’ trauma that they had first produced a black woman president from the Republican Party, sparked an explosive reaction that sent Warren, a far more hardline liberal than previous elections, to the presidency. that’s what it did
The catchphrase of being more progressive than anyone else and taking the lead in gender equality and racial equality was the Democratic Party’s greatest strength until then.
So I found Elizabeth Warren, a professor of bankruptcy law at Harvard University.
Indeed, there were even some who called the 2016 US presidential election four years ago, in which all Democrats united to block Rice’s re-election and elected Warren, as a ‘match for restoring ideological legitimacy’ for the US Democrats.
And over the past four years, Warren has led a number of progressive policies, including the same-sex marriage legalization bill that Samantha mentioned just before, as proof of her footsteps. It was in the midst of persuading the people by emphasizing that it should have been prevented.
And also for the 2020 US presidential election, which will determine his re-election this year.
And now, most experts predicted that Warren would easily take over the incumbent president, because the candidate the Republican Party put up as an opponent to this ‘incumbent socialist president’ Warren is… … .
“Come on, both of you, calm down for a moment. So at this point I have to ask one important question, not just for Brian and Samantha, but for all of you here. It is closely related to the subject of this lecture, and it is a question that cannot but be answered at least once as a professor at George Town University.”
“haha! And most importantly, it’s exciting, Professor Kim! Wouldn’t it be rare to see an election like this year in American history?”
“That’s it. Well then, everyone. Let’s start a free discussion on this topic now. Who will win the 58th presidential election in November 2020? Incumbent Democratic President Elizabeth Warren? Or the Republican mutant, ‘Make America Great Again!’ Donald J Trump? Your grades may vary depending on the correct answer, so think carefully before answering.”