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"Bad government is elected by good citizens who do not vote." (J. Nathan)

Today we held the first presentation for the F residence in Kasai City.
The F residence is a two-family home, and I'm glad that they were very pleased with it.
Today's topic is a great quote that I saw on Twitter.
I used it as the title. The other day, Councilman Imamura said the same thing,
I totally agree with that.
After the results of yesterday's election were announced, Naoki Inose responded to the result on Twitter:
"Governor Ishihara's election victory was expected, but Higashikokubara has many more votes than Watanabe Miki.
This has Tokyo residents pondering whether this is really okay."
I completely agree. I think it was about 20 years ago, but there was a man who was on par with Drucker in the world.
When the highly acclaimed Kenichi Ohmae ran for governor, Tokyo residents were surprised.
I chose the mean old lady. At that time, Japan still had economic security and the people were
I thought there was a certain amount of carefreeness in the economy.
The damage was huge, and the Great East Japan Earthquake struck.
In this situation, looking at the election results, Tokyo is no longer a gathering of capable people.
I couldn't help but feel that this was not the case.
How many people in Japan today have the power to build a big group from scratch?
There are people like that who have even left their companies to run for office.
I don't choose that. So in the end,
"Bad government is elected by good citizens who do not vote." (J. Nathan)
Maybe that word says it all.

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