Judging from the era background of the main universe, this place is no longer in an era of economic upswing like Schiller's universe. The United States, which has experienced two economic crises, has gradually moved away from the golden age. In this era background,
People's expectations of leaders naturally change.
In a period of economic boom, people hope that leaders will be wise, far-sighted, and have the potential to become great people, leading the entire country and even the world to go further and create real miracles.
However, during the economic downturn, people always complain about not being able to make money, high prices, and declining quality of life. People no longer care about family and national affairs, and they hope that leaders can actually change the current predicament and let people
life gets better.
In this era of the main universe, most voters think so. They do not want great men who boast about the eternal glory of the United States, but they hope that someone can actually see the plight that the vast majority of people are in and let the economy develop.
The road is back on track.
This results in that, from presidential elections to governor and mayor elections, voters tend to be people-friendly doers. The vast majority of candidates are working hard to show that they are energetic, capable, and able to propose solutions to every issue.
The image of smart and diligent people who implement practical solutions, and at the same time, use some small hobbies that are close to the people to get closer to the voters and make them feel that they are on the same side with them.
The campaign teams of Lincoln March and current Mayor Magan both have rich experience, and having sufficient campaign experience in this era means that they have created such images for several candidates. So when it comes to Magan and March
On the head, they naturally also want to eat all over the world with one move.
The image created by the campaign team for March is that of a talented businessman who has made great achievements at a young age. He has a keen business sense and a genius investment vision. He wants to participate in politics because he is worried about the current economic downturn.
Use your own hands to turn the situation around.
Therefore, when he gave speeches, he often borrowed some of Roosevelt's famous quotes on bailing out the market, emphasizing that professional people should do professional things, claiming that he would run the city as his own industry, and as long as he could make the economy prosperous, all problems would be solved.
can be solved.
Magan's campaign team chose an image of an old fox with rich political experience and maturity. They also emphasized that he came from a farmer's family and climbed to where he is today by relying on his own ability, showing a poor boy's counterattack in the political circle.
The miracle of the Red Man.
In his speeches, he often calls his opponents "young boys" to take advantage of his age. At the same time, he secretly belittles other opponents as being too idealistic, while he is mature and stable, and will not mess around.
Steady development while stabilizing the status quo.
Obviously, of the two people, March wants to win the favor of the new rich, while Magan wants to stabilize the support of the wealthy family, but both of them have forgotten one thing - this is Gotham.
If other cities are now at the bottom of their development, then Gotham has always been an abyss. If the citizens of other cities have the impression that the leaders who can turn things around are only economic doers, then I am afraid that in the impression of Gotham citizens, it is possible to improve this situation.
The image of the leader of a city must be an iron-blooded emperor.
Smart and capable doers can be called hard-liners in other cities, but in Gotham, this level is far from enough. Iron-fisted leaders often appear in war years, because the people of this era need clear guidance and toughness.
attitude to build their confidence.
And Gotham can no longer be said to be in a war era for a long time. It is more like experiencing a very complete defeat every few days, so even an iron-fisted general-type leader is not enough. To put it bluntly, what this place needs is a tyrant.
Perhaps a sufficiently tyrannical and tough emperor would not be able to solve the root cause of Gotham's darkness stemming from metaphysics, but he could at least tell the people of Gotham what they should do now. Even running towards death without looking back would be better than
It's better to live in confusion now.
What Gotham needs now is not justice, but direction.
Gangster-style violence, tyrant-style power, and even theology that is centuries behind the times, as long as someone can firmly implement the line to the end, the situation will be much better than it is now, even if darkness will still bring to Gotham
The people are suffering physically, but 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 a world where the vast majority of Batman chooses to change his route and stand in front of the stage, Gotham is much more likely to be saved. But the question is, can Batman in a universe change his route?
He decided it himself.
In some remote universes, editors may of course make decisions that go against their ancestors just to have fun, but the main world represents the face and dignity of the DC world. The games played by Batman and the villains are the most popular ones in DC comics.
content, so it is impossible for the Batman of the main universe to stand on stage.
It's just that Batman is still Batman, Gotham is still Gotham, and even Penguin is still the ambitious Penguin. The fact that Penguin became mayor has happened in thousands of universes.
, but the arrival of the Robins accelerated this process.
But perhaps they themselves didn’t realize that the changes in language and style themselves would also affect the actors themselves, that is to say, the so-called character becomes true as they act.
After Jason completely taught Penguin about Roy's speaking and acting style in his universe and his experience in running for mayor of Gotham City, Penguin suddenly realized that this trick was so damn easy to use.
The so-called "As long as I have no morals, you can't morally kidnap me", you can also say "I'm so bad, why can't I be bad?", in short, as long as you clearly understand the positioning of Gotham as a city, and
If your moral bottom line perfectly fits this position, then living here will be like a duck in water.
Penguin's previous dilemma was that he was born in Gotham, a chaotic city, and used gangster methods to accumulate resources for himself. However, after achieving some success, he gave up such direct methods and wanted to cover himself with a civilized cloak.
Blending into the so-called upper class society.
But the fact is that this requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and requires step by step and extreme caution.
But in fact, you don't need to go to such trouble in Gotham. You just need to drag the opponent to the same level as yourself, and then use your rich experience to defeat them. This is the biggest advantage of Gotham's home game.
The war now taking place in Gotham's Midtown made Penguin realize this, and then he abandoned the pretense of civilization as quickly as possible and began to do what Gothamites should do.
What about deep-water port approval? What do people in Gotham need approval for? I'm going to knock the first wooden pile of the pier into the sea right now. If you don't accept it, come and beat me.
What? Environmentalist organizations condemn it from public opinion? But even if Gotham is environmentally friendly, there is no shortage of condemnation! Then why should I care about condemnation? Deep-water ports are built hard, sewage is discharged hard, and a Godzilla emerges from the sea.
, and we can solve it ourselves.
Penguin's criminal connections were much stronger than Robin's. He directly attracted several regular customers of the Iceberg Restaurant, and brought along smugglers he had previously contacted from other places. The group of people directly ignored the environmental protection bill, the state assembly, and the engineering team.
We drove to the location of the dock in a mighty manner.
Of course, the deep-water port is not being built so fast, but the smuggling ships of the smugglers are impatient. Big ships can't stop, but small ships can do it. They just pull up to the shore and unload their cargo in a blatant manner. Whoever stops them will die.
Are you asking if the Gotham police don't care? Isn't this a small war being fought in Midtown? Even if Gordon has three heads and six arms, it is impossible to fight against normal crimes, prevent wars, and inspect smuggling at the same time.
This brings us to another point: Gotham has insufficient police force, so why doesn’t the FBI come? A small war has broken out here, but the military is nowhere to be seen?
If the federal government and state legislators hadn't been so cowardly, how could Gotham be in such a bad state? Then why can't we be rotten? We will be rotten!
Facts have proved that as long as a person has a smooth logic that can dump all mistakes on others, his waist will no longer hurt, his legs will no longer be sore, and his life will become better.
Penguin not only built a deep-water port illegally and sent people to pick up smuggling ships, but he also directly told what he had done in his speech.
"Dear audience friends, I think you have heard that our dear state legislators cursed Gotham again at the last regular meeting, especially I, Oswald, cursed."
"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."
"How advantageous the geographical conditions of Gotham Bay are, and how suitable the estuary delta is for transshipment and trade. They never care. How many people could have gone to the docks to work as porters to make money, and how many people could have gone to work as sailors on ships.
They never care about living a stable life."
"What do they care about? They only care about the bullshit environmental laws!"
"Just last week, our Congressman Lauder just bought a private jet for his newlywed wife, and traveled between the metropolis and San Francisco more than a dozen times within a week. Just now, he said on his private media
Claiming that 86% of factories in Gotham have energy waste problems, and requiring illegal factories to shut down for self-inspection."
"They came not only for Gotham, but also for me, because I hired more than 2,000 workers to build the dock without getting approval, and also introduced thousands of strong young men to my business partners.
Instead of running a boat, I let them smuggle, work as mercenaries, and join gangs."
"But no matter how heinous I am, it won't be the turn of these cowards who only know how to talk and point fingers at me - Andrges Lauder, listen to me, you are not saying that I am dirty.
A remnant of the gang, an executioner with hands full of blood? When I put you on the guillotine and cut off your head with a knife, 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 rapidly, and he immediately guessed the Penguin's intention. After a brief pause, he disappeared from the Batcave, and then a Batfighter took off into the sky and disappeared into the vast night of Gotham.