英語検定ライティング準１級（第481回）

政治的無関心「マスコミが日本を壊す話」

世襲議員が無能だとついにバレてしまった。次期総裁が討論番組で的確な意見を発言できてない。２週間前にも知的レベルが低いとジャーナリストに言われていたが現実になった。会社が社員を解雇しやすくするとか。バイトからも年金を取るとか。
A certain politician in the second generation has been exposed to ordinary citizens that he should be one of the incapable Diet members when nine candidates of the next prime minister gathered to describe their own ideas and opinions in public on the TV panel discussions.
He couldn’t answer the questions about various kinds of policies provided by those involved manifestly, which has demonstrated that his intellectual level hasn’t reached that of someone political yet, in fact, he was criticized by a certain freelance journalist around two weeks ago.
He shouldn’t have stated that numerous corporations could dismiss their employees even more easily and Japan could collect the pension insurance from people working part time, which won’t fail to makes us find it so challenging to live in our society, an online article says.

一般庶民は自民党を許してはいけない。しかし全国的に政治的アパシーが蔓延しているため自民党が国民を苦しめていることも分かりにくい。そもそも政治に興味を持たせない教育も機能している。パーティばかり開催して裏金を集めて選挙に勝つ。
We shouldn’t forgive what the government party have done so far, but it might be challenging for the public to be informed of the fact that Liberal Democratic Party has  long done tremendous damages to our daily life due to the political apathy, which has been prevalent, she says.
In the first place, someone educational which prevents us from being interested in something political functions well, after all, the government party’s Diet members have enjoyed numerous profitable parties to collect kickbacks, which enables them to continue to be the statesmen.

政治家は頭が良くなくてもいい。勉強しなくていい。結局は財務省が使いやすい政治家なら誰でもいい。お金は大企業が献金してくれる。それは圧力団体となって法人税が軽減されたりする。その穴埋めとして消費税が上がることは知っておきたい。
A politician needn’t be smart with capable abilities, in other words, he or she doesn’t have to be absorbed in their studies, after all, the Financial Ministry requires him or her to be obedient and reasonable towards numerous orders provided by the bureaucrats, everyone assumes.
What the politician needs, money, should be offered from numerous major corporations and enterprises, in return, he or she must lower the taxation about their corporate payments because they won’t fail to be the irresistible organizations, simultaneously, the consumption tax rate might be raised by the Financial Ministry’s commands.