Chapter 1674 No Time to Die (Thirty-Seven)

Chapter 1647 No Time to Die (Thirty-Seven)

From the perspective of the era background of the main universe, this is no longer the era of economic growth like the universe where Schiller is located. The United States, which has experienced two economic crises, has gradually moved away from the golden age. In such an era, people's expectations of leaders have naturally changed.

In the period of economic boom, people hope that leaders can be wise and far-sighted, have the potential to become great men, lead the entire country and even the world to go further, and create real miracles.

However, in the period of economic downturn, people always complain about not making money, high prices, and declining quality of life. People no longer care about the affairs of the country and hope that leaders can actually change the current predicament and make people's lives better.

Most voters in this era in the main universe think so. They don't want great men who boast about the eternal glory of the United States, but hope that someone can actually see the plight of the vast majority of people and get the road of economic development back on track.

This leads to the fact that from the presidential election to the election of governors and mayors, voters prefer people-friendly and practical people. Most candidates are trying to show that they are energetic, capable and willing to work, and have the wisdom and diligence to propose practical solutions to every problem. At the same time, they have to use some people-friendly hobbies to get closer to voters and make them feel that they are on the same side as them.

The campaign teams of Lincoln March and the current mayor Magan have rich experience. In this era, having sufficient campaign experience means that they have created such an image for several candidates. So when it comes to Magan and March, they naturally want to have a new trick to eat all the world.

The image created by the campaign team for March is that of a talented businessman who has achieved remarkable achievements at a young age, with a keen business sense and a genius investment vision. Because he is worried about the current economic downturn, he wants to participate in politics and turn the situation around with his own hands.

Therefore, when he gave a speech, he often borrowed some famous quotes from Roosevelt's rescue of the city, emphasizing that professionals should do professional things, and claimed that he would run the city as his own industry. As long as the economy can be prosperous, all problems can be solved.

Magan's campaign team chose an image of an old fox with rich political experience, sophistication and maturity for him, and emphasized that he came from a farmer's family and climbed to his current position with his own ability, showing the miracle of a poor boy counterattacking to a celebrity in the political circle.

In his speeches, he often called his opponents "hairy boys" to play to his age advantage, and at the same time openly and secretly belittled other opponents for being too idealistic, while he himself was mature and stable, would not mess around, and would develop steadily under the condition of stabilizing the status quo.

Obviously, of the two people, March wanted to win the favor of the new rich, while Magan wanted to stabilize the support of the wealthy families, but they both forgot one thing-this is Gotham.

If other cities are now at the bottom of development, then Gotham has always been an abyss. If the leaders who can turn the situation around in the impression of citizens in other cities are only economic pragmatists, then in the impression of Gotham citizens, the leader who may improve the image of this city must be an iron-blooded emperor.

Smart and capable pragmatists can be called hardliners in other cities, but in Gotham, this level is far from enough. Iron-fisted leaders often appear in wartime, because people in this era need clear guidance and a tough attitude to build confidence for them.

And Gotham can no longer be said to be in a long-term wartime. It is more like experiencing a very thorough defeat every few days, so even an iron-fisted general-type leader is not enough. To put it bluntly, this place only needs a tyrant.

Perhaps a sufficiently tyrannical and tough emperor cannot solve the darkness of Gotham from metaphysics from the root, but he can at least tell the people of Gotham what they should do now. Even if they run towards death without looking back, it is better than living in a muddle-headed way now.

What Gotham needs now is not justice, but a route.

Gangster-style violence, tyrannical power, and even theology that is centuries behind, as long as someone can firmly implement the route to the end, the situation will be much better than it is now. Even if the darkness still brings physical pain to the people of Gotham, they have spiritual support, which can be regarded as salvation in a sense.

Looking at the comics, it is not difficult to find that in most worlds where Batman chooses to change his route and stand on the stage, the possibility of Gotham being saved is much greater, but the problem is that whether Batman in a universe can change his route is not decided by himself.

In some remote universes, editors may make decisions that go against their ancestors in order to play tricks, but the main world represents the face and inside of the DC world. The game played by Batman and the villains is the most popular content of DC comics, so it is impossible for Batman in the main universe to stand on the stage.

It's just that Batman is still Batman, Gotham is still Gotham, and even the Penguin is still the ambitious Penguin. The fact that the Penguin became the mayor has happened in thousands of universes, but the arrival of Robins has accelerated this process.

But perhaps they themselves did not realize that the change in speech and style itself will also affect the actor himself, that is, the so-called character setting will become true as the performance progresses.

After Jason completely taught the Penguin the style of Roy's speech and behavior in his universe and his experience in running for mayor of Gotham City, the Penguin suddenly realized that this trick was so damn useful.

The so-called "As long as I have no morals, you can't morally kidnap me", or "I am so rotten, why can't I be rotten?" In short, as long as you clearly understand the positioning of the city of Gotham and make your moral bottom line perfectly match this positioning, then living here is like a fish in water.

The Penguin's previous dilemma was that he was born in the chaotic city of Gotham and accumulated resources for himself by means of gangsters, but after a little success, he gave up such direct means and wanted to put on a civilized coat and mix into the so-called upper class.

But the fact is that this requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and requires careful and cautious steps.

But in fact, it is not necessary to go through so much trouble in Gotham. You just need to make the opponent as bad as you are, and then defeat them with rich experience. This is the biggest advantage of Gotham's home field.

The war in Gotham's Midtown area has made Penguin realize this, and then he quickly abandoned his civilized disguise and started to do what Gotham people should do.

What deep-water port approval, what do Gotham people need approval for? I'm going to knock the first wooden stake of the dock into the sea now, if you don't agree, come and hit me.

What? Environmentalist organizations condemned from public opinion? But Gotham is environmentally friendly and there is no lack of condemnation! Then why should I care about condemnation? Build deep-water ports and drain sewage. Even if a Godzilla rushes out of the sea, we will solve it ourselves.

Penguin's criminal connections are much stronger than Robin's. He directly won over several regular customers of the Iceberg Restaurant, and brought along the smugglers he had contacted from other places. The group ignored the environmental protection bill and the state legislature, and the engineering team drove to the dock site.

Of course, the deep-water port was not built so quickly, but the smugglers' smuggling ships could not wait. If the big ships could not stop, the small ships would also work. They directly docked and unloaded the goods blatantly, and whoever stopped them would die.

Do you ask if the Gotham police don't care? Isn't there a small war going on in Midtown? Even if Gordon has three heads and six arms, it is impossible to fight normal crimes, prevent wars, and investigate smuggling at the same time.

This brings us to the fact that Gotham's police force is insufficient, so why doesn't the FBI come? A small war has broken out here, why is there no sign of the army?

If the federal government and the state legislature had not been cowards, how could Gotham be so rotten? Then why can't we be rotten? We are rotten!

Facts have proved that as long as people have a coherent logic that can blame all mistakes on others, then their backs and legs will not ache, and their lives will become better.

Penguin not only built a deep-water port in violation of regulations and sent people to pick up smuggling ships, but also directly told everything he did in his speech.

"Dear listeners, I think you have heard that our dear state legislator cursed Gotham again at the last regular meeting, especially at me, Oswald."

"But do I care about him? No, I don't care at all. No matter what they say, I don't care, because they never care about me."

"They never care about how superior the geographical conditions of the Gotham Bay are, how suitable the delta at the mouth of the estuary is for transshipment and trade, how many people could have worked hard as porters at the docks to earn money, and how many people could have lived a stable life as sailors on ships, they never care."

"What do they care about? They only care about that bullshit environmental protection law!"

"Just last week, our Congressman Laude just bought a private plane for his newlywed wife and traveled between the metropolis and San Francisco within a week. More than a dozen times, just now, he claimed in his private media that 86% of Gotham's factories have energy waste problems, and asked the factories that violated the rules to stop production and conduct self-inspection. "

"They are not only coming for Gotham, but also for me, because I hired more than 2,000 workers to build the dock without approval, and introduced thousands of strong young men to my business partners to run ships. I asked them to smuggle, be mercenaries, and join the gangs."

"But no matter how heinous my crimes are, it is not their turn to point fingers at me. Anders Lauder, listen to me, didn't you say that I am a dirty gangster remnant and a bloody executioner? When I press you on the guillotine and chop off your head, you'd better pray that the environmental protection law in your hand can save your life!"

Batman in front of the screen slowly narrowed his eyes. Penguin wants to kill the congressman? No, I'm afraid it's not that simple.

Batman's brain was working fast, and he immediately guessed the Penguin's intention. After a brief pause, he disappeared from the Batcave, and then a batplane took off and disappeared into the vast night of Gotham.