いち地方首長の選挙なのに異常に注目を浴び続けた今回の兵庫県知事選挙。きのう投開票されて結果は失職していた前知事の斉藤元彦氏が再選されるという民意の結果に。
この選挙では既成「権力機構」そのものであるメディアが総出で、反斉藤知事という実質的なキャンペーンを張り続け、選挙戦序盤で「発表されていた」情勢では完全に他候補に負ける情勢だったとされた。それに対してNHK党（いまは何党か（笑）よく知らない）の立花氏が「斉藤さんを勝たせるために」立候補して、さまざまな情報発信機会をフル活用させて、その自死によって斉藤氏の失職に至るきっかけを作った元県民局長という人物について、その「公用」パソコンのなかに、長く務めていた人事部の立場にあるまじき多数の女性職員たちとの不逞な行為の記録があったのだと暴露した。かの元県民局長はその事実が公表されることに耐えかねて、100条委員会の開催に強く反対していたという。既存メディアでは「個人情報」保護という趣旨からか、このことは一切触れられることがなかったのだという。
そのような暴露を立候補しての活動やWEB、SNSで効率的に立花氏が行い続けたことによって、ことの根幹の経緯についてなんの情報開示もされずに、一方的なメディア報道によって「印象操作」されていた実態が明々白々にさらけ出されてしまった。
最終盤には「しばき隊」という左派の暴力的集団が反斉藤の立場から、既成メディアが実質的に応援していた候補の応援に殴り込み、多くの良識的な県民の怒りを引き出してしまった。そして県内22の地方自治体市長などが、反斉藤の声明を発するに及んで、このような報道と政治の「既得権益構造」というものの実態が浮き彫りになってしまった。
なにやら、アメリカ大統領選での日米左派系メディアの異常な反トランプ偏向報道とも相関を感じさせる事態ではないかと思う。そして国内政治の現状でもこうした「傾向」はあきらかに存在するだろう。異常な自民党総裁選。その直後に自らのイニシアティブで総選挙を行い、責任ラインとして「与党過半数」と自ら定めた議席数をも大きく下回ってもなお居座り続けている人物は、これまでずっと朝日などの既成左派メディアが「国民にいちばん人気がある」などと情報操作してきていた。その人物は今、どうやら野党第１党との「大連立」を志向していると噂されている。一方で、トランプは就任前の会談を拒否してきた。まったく相手にされていない。
どう考えても「国益」は大きく毀損されてきている。
さて今回兵庫県で示された「民意」は今後、この国にとってどのような方向性への「起動力」になっていくか、注視していかなければならないだろう。
＜写真は北海道寿都町のステキな神社のお社＞
English version⬇
[Read the most recent public “will of the people” on 11/17 shown in Hyogo Prefecture.
The biased media coverage in advance of the U.S. presidential election and its obvious divergence from the will of the people. The most recent “voice of God” in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, is similar to this. Now, what is the situation? ...
The Hyogo Prefecture gubernatorial election has been attracting an unusually large amount of attention despite the fact that it is an election for a local head of government. The results of the election held yesterday showed that former Governor Motohiko Saito, who had lost his post, was reelected by the people.
In this election, the media, which is the established “power structure” itself, had been campaigning against Governor Saito, and the “announced” situation in the early stages of the election campaign indicated that he would be completely defeated by another candidate. In contrast, Mr. Tachibana of the NHK party (what party is it now? (laugh) I don't really know) ran for office “to let Mr. Saito win” and made full use of various information dissemination opportunities, and in his “official” computer, he wrote about the person, the former director of the Prefectural People's Bureau, whose suicide led to Mr. Saito's loss of office for a long time He revealed that his “official” computer contained records of his sexual misconduct with a number of female employees, which is unbecoming of a person who served in the Human Resources Department for so long. He said that he was strongly opposed to the holding of the Article 100 Committee because he could not bear to have these facts made public. He said that the existing media did not mention this fact at all, perhaps to protect “personal information.
Tachibana's continued and efficient use of the Internet and social networking services to expose the truth clearly revealed the fact that he had been “manipulating impressions” through one-sided media reports without disclosing any information about the underlying circumstances.
In the final stages of the campaign, a violent leftist group called “Shibakitai,” which was anti-Saito, stormed in to support the candidate who was practically backed by the established media, drawing the ire of many well-meaning prefectural residents. The 22 mayors of local governments in the prefecture also issued anti-Saito statements, bringing into sharp relief the reality of the “vested interest structure” of the media and politics.
This situation seems to be correlated with the extraordinary anti-Trump bias of the left-leaning media in Japan and the U.S. during the U.S. presidential election. And this “trend” is clearly evident in the current state of domestic politics as well. The extraordinary LDP presidential election. The man who immediately after the LDP presidential election held a general election on his own initiative and continues to hold office even though the number of seats he holds is far below the “ruling party majority” he himself set as the line of responsibility has been manipulated by the established leftist media such as Asahi as “the most popular with the people” and so on. He is now rumored to be seeking a “grand coalition” with the first opposition party. Meanwhile, Trump has refused to meet with him before his inauguration. He has not been taken seriously at all.
In all likelihood, the “national interest” has been severely damaged.
We will have to keep a close eye on the “will of the people” expressed in Hyogo Prefecture to see what direction it will take the country in the future.
＜The photo is of a lovely shrine in the town of Sutsu, Hokkaido.
