Chapter 2050 Asking for Monthly Votes!!!

It should be said that the U.S. government is very excited to have access to the magician of Kama Taj.

There is no way, the United States has been really miserable in the past few years. When Benjamin originally ran for president, his main focus was young and handsome. This was used to attract young voters.

In most people's minds, the phenomenon of gerontocracy is often associated with the Soviet Union. Everyone likes "Soviet jokes", especially jokes about Brezhnev's age, which indirectly criticizes the life-long tenure of leading cadres in the Soviet Union. Interestingly, U.S. President Ronald Reagan also liked Soviet jokes. He often interspersed Soviet jokes in his speeches to promote the "superiority" of the American system and liven up the atmosphere. President Reagan could joke like this because he believed that the phenomenon of gerontology would not occur under a more "superior" American system. But if he could see what American politics looks like today, I believe he might not be so confident telling Soviet jokes like that. The older generation of politicians in the United States were generally born just after World War II. At that time, American society was still relatively conservative, and the entire society was still in the struggle stage due to the pressure of the Cold War; country, responsibility and responsibility were imprinted in their minds as mainstream values. The younger generation includes Americans who were born after the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the United States has gained advantages in the Cold War and is about to establish global hegemony, they generally grew up in a pampered environment, leaving behind the mainstream values ​​​​of the past. back. Rights and enjoyment have become their new pursuits, and beautiful days are taken for granted. Their dream is no longer to study hard and serve the country; it has become the pursuit of abstract personal freedom.

To give a few examples: After the epidemic, everything gradually returned to normal. People who once worked online began to return to the office, but young people in the United States were accustomed to working online during the epidemic and believed they had the right to continue doing so. If their employer does not allow it, some of them will choose to resign, which indirectly triggered the recent "Great Resignation Movement" in the United States. Young people in the United States do not like to participate in politics, but they are often dissatisfied with the policies of the older generation. At this time, they will often take to the streets to demonstrate, sometimes even triggering violent incidents (many of the "zero dollar purchases" ridiculed on the Internet come from these activities).

The worst thing is that young people who have gained power also give people a sense of being unprogressive, neither learning nor trying to understand emerging and complex things. In terms of international relations, this is reflected in the fact that many American politicians do not try or want to understand China, which they themselves define as the largest structural opponent. In terms of domestic affairs, it is reflected in hyping up issues that are most likely to cause conflict, such as gender, abortion, guns, ethnicity, racial conflicts, etc., to benefit oneself at the expense of national interests (also commonly known as stacking buffs by some netizens). They talk to themselves every day and expect everyone to agree with them. Once someone else expresses a different point of view, they start to act hysterically, waiting for others to compromise. If they don't compromise, they will wildly propagate that others are intolerant, irrational, or even anti-human.

They do not understand realist international politics or even the cruelty of the real world. They still think that everything they have is taken for granted and that others must satisfy them. In the author's own words, most of these politicians are not good at anything except engaging in political performance art, and they will not and cannot be responsible for the troubles they cause.

Faced with such a young generation, it is obvious that the older generation of American politicians will not trust them to hand over decision-making power. The author believes that there are two options to change this situation: in-depth reform of the education system or a return to "elitism." Reform the education system so that young Americans can better understand themselves and the world and stop being flowers in a greenhouse. Or use elitism to hedge against the current populist movement and limit the possibility of populist politicians gaining the highest power.

In contrast, young people are extremely fed up with gerontocracy. They believe that gerontocracy is too rigid and has become class-solidified! This prevents young people from seeing their future!

So more and more young people don't like politics at all and don't vote.

Benjamin was introduced essentially because the political party hopes that more young people will come out to vote.

It’s a bit like the ‘idol’ industry, but there’s no way it can be helped, presidential elections are essentially a super show every four years. The brighter you are, the more votes you will attract.

Therefore, Benjamin's own quality is very good.

A typical American handsome guy, tall and strong, tough and handsome, with a gorgeous resume and a very good reputation. Voters are happy to see some different voices in politics.

But he is such a typical handsome guy.

There have been so many changes in the past few years that there were even rumors that the president was seriously ill.

Over the past few years, Benjamin, this handsome guy, has lost a lot of weight, his hair has gone bald, and he has aged a lot. Benjamin used to have a habit of exercising. When he just became president, you can still see He ran at the White House.

It's basically invisible now.

Why?

Sad!

The United States itself has many problems, but these problems have been covered up by the great economic development and the establishment of hegemony after World War II. As the world's only superpower after the Cold War. The United States now controls the three major global hegemons: military, currency and technology. Because of its unique system, superior geography, and good opportunities, the United States has achieved hegemony that other countries cannot shake in the military, economy, science and technology, and public opinion.

In the current United States, hegemony and interests have covered up many of their inherent problems; American politicians now face problems not by "looking for the cause in oneself when one fails", but by "being the sinners of Jie and Zhou", for example, "their demise is sudden". I am not being self-indulgent, this is how it is from a historical perspective. Look at the United States now, they blame others for everything: the COVID-19 pandemic, they must say it is someone else's problem; the economic downturn, they must say others are taking advantage; the technological lead is shortened, they immediately start a technological war; the drug abuse in the United States, they blame others...

For example, someone asked an American politician: China is working to lift all people out of poverty, and has the determination to solve the problem of poverty and eliminate poverty; there are a large number of urban vagrants in the United States, why doesn't the US government do anything? Do you know how the politicians answered? They said: the poverty of the vagrants is their own choice, this is a "life attitude".

Under hegemony, the United States looks great on the surface: low prices, high welfare, beautiful environment, and stable society. However, what lies beneath the surface is: the high debt of the United States, which is a huge thunder.

Because under the hegemony of the US dollar, the United States implements a "debt economy": issuing US debt, exchanging for US dollars, buying world goods, giving good welfare to the people, maintaining the minimum living standard, and maintaining low prices. However, if no one buys US debt, all this will be very difficult: unable to import high-quality and low-priced goods, no money to pay welfare, unable to maintain high military expenditures, etc. Everything needs money to maintain. Of course, the United States still has many advantages now, and high technology is one of them. The trouble now is: if there is no technological war and the export of chips is liberalized, the United States will soon lose this advantage; if there is a technological war, chips will lose the largest market and the United States will not make high profits.

The building will collapse in an instant.

With the destruction of military hegemony (Atlantis's attack on land destroyed all US fleets overnight), the hegemony of the US dollar will disintegrate.

The consequences of this can be imagined.

It is already very remarkable that Benjamin can support the current situation. This is why, so far, the two major parties in the United States have never impeached Benjamin or even strongly supported him, because no one can do better than him.

This is not a problem that can be solved by saying a few lies.

If an unreliable person is replaced, the current barely maintained situation will completely collapse.

So the two parties will not oppose Benjamin at this critical moment, but will give him the greatest support.

They are afraid that he will run away because he is irrelevant. Now this position is a pit of fire.

There is no way. The United States has too few cards to play now.

They need some help.

The mages of Kamar-Taj have naturally entered the government's sight.

It's still the same old routine. They hope to win over Kamar-Taj and make it a weapon for the United States to stabilize the situation. If possible, they even hope to nationalize it. In this way, they can continuously produce mages and then seize hegemony again.

Of course, the plan will not be so rough. But it is absolutely necessary to contact Kamar-Taj first.

It's just that from the beginning, they have no chance to contact Kamar-Taj.

Until now.

After the most basic greetings... In fact, it was Director Hill and the government envoy who were talking. Carter was an old agent. Although she had never come into contact with Kamar-Taj, she could think of these mysterious organizations that have been hidden behind human society, and she didn't care much about such greetings on top hats.

Sure enough, although Gu Yi didn't have an arrogant attitude towards ordinary people, he obviously didn't want to waste time on these things.

Finally, in the awkward silence, the two shut up.

Then began a formal conversation.

The envoy spoke first: "Well..."

"You can call me Master, or call me by my name, Gu Yi."

Gu Yi saw the other party's entanglement, so he took the initiative to speak. Master in English is Master... Yes, the Master in "Are you my Master?". This word has many meanings, and the envoy has never understood what this simple word means.

He wondered if the other party was humiliating him.

After all, he is a black man... As we all know, Master also means master. When black people were still farm tools, they called their masters Master...

Fortunately, there is another optional title later.

"Okay... Master Ancient One. I hope you can explain what you did on American soil? Why did this happen here? We must give the public a reasonable explanation, and we also need a reasonable explanation. Your actions on American soil have not been reported to any government department."

To praise, then to criticize.

The US government does want to strengthen its ties with Kamar-Taj, but that does not mean they are willing to sacrifice their national dignity. They need to make their position clear. That is, on this land of the United States, their federal government is the biggest!

Of course, the US government is not really stupid, this is also a strategy.

Sure enough, Agent Hill soon followed.

"Please forgive Mr. Envoy's anger. After all, this is New York, the center of the United States. We don't know anything about what happened here. This is a serious dereliction of duty for us. The angry people will tear down the government tomorrow."

This is the white face.

The red face and white face set is estimated to have existed since humans began to have language, but the routine is not afraid of getting old, as long as it is useful.

They actually wanted Kamar-Taj to establish a bridge for information exchange with the US government. They didn't know what kind of cooperation or close relationship they could reach with Kamar-Taj at the beginning, but at least there should be a dialogue channel. More communication will make everything easier.

All the mysteries come from the lack of understanding of information.

Once you know more, Kamar-Taj will not be so mysterious, and even the US government can have its own wizard!

Gu Yi looked at them silently... She didn't know what the US government thought. Did they think that the wizards of Kamar-Taj were all hermits who didn't understand the world?

There was nothing wrong with hermits.

But the wizards of Kamar-Taj were not really the kind of immortals who didn't eat fireworks.

The wizards of Kamar-Taj were all formal wizards who were selected from thousands of people through travel. They would look for those who were qualified but frustrated. They would not choose those who had strong desires and a happy life.

Because there were too many uncertainties about such people.

At the same time, most of those frustrated people have seen through the world. They are not as detached as "jumping out of the three realms and not in the five elements", but at least they have seen the warmth and coldness of human feelings and the affairs of the world. They are not fools who don't know anything.

As for Gu Yi, although she is very busy, she often travels in the world. They are not really out of society, but just don't want to integrate into it.

The red-faced and white-faced set of these two people can be seen by Gu Yi, not to mention Wang Yuan, who is the least worldly.

"Hey, what is your American territory? This is the territory of the Indians! And when we built the temple of Kamar-Taj on this land of the United States, there was no United States!" Wang Yuan really stood up: "We don't need to explain anything to anyone, and you don't need to know!"

Mr. Envoy was very uncomfortable. A Chinese stood on the land of the United States and told a black man that this was the land of the Indians... It's funny to think about it.

Gu Yi waved her hand: "We have no intention of contacting the secular regime. We just want to remind you that the whole world will be in danger during this period. We can't take care of human society for the time being, so you need to work hard on your own."

This is all Gu Yi wanted to say. As for asking the government for help to fight against the dimensional demon... she had never thought about it at all!