My boy went down like Whitebeard while denouncing the hoax that is representative politics!
What a fucking legend!
You guys have no idea how great this manga is, never before has someone so clearly exposed the basic issue of how representative democracy can fail and is designed to not work towards the interest of the people, how politicians who allegedly act as if they were representing the interest of those who elect them, are in reality only working for the interest of the party they belong to as members of an elite class detached from the rest of the population, a population that can't hold them accountable because they willingly give them all the decision making power and in doing so facilitating all the issues that comes with political corruption, from lobbying to public manipulation and international relationships
And yes the story focuses on Japanese issues, but that same structure applies to every other country with a modern democratic political system
People have proposed different solutions to this issue, like lottocracies and Deliberative democracies, but these also suffer from falling into the same issues, with media manipulation the opinion of the policies being deliberated in a populist democracy can be controlled to fit in with a private agenda, landing us back into the issue of lobbying, and while a lotttocracy may make it harder for corruption to take place, a lack of structure can also make it easier
My personal opinion towards this issues, is for terms of governance to be shorter, for privileges to be more restricted, and policies to require greater involvement from the general population, this last one is part of deliberative democracies, so it would also require the investment of political education in order to counter manipulation of public opinion, i know it is all silly, fighting brainwashing with brainwashing, but at least this one allows you to take part in the decisions that will affect your daily life and future