Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, attended the Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly on the 23rd, where he delivered a speech. He downplayed the meeting between President Yoon Seok-yeol and People Power Party leader Han Dong-hoon, describing it as “a fight, not politics.”
During the party’s Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly in the morning, Lee expressed, “It is disappointing and quite regrettable in many aspects.” He pointed out, “Recently, the public must find politics frustrating, with some even saying it resembles a brawl among gangsters in an alley.”
He went on to say, “Politics is the process of recognizing each other’s existence, negotiating and adjusting differences to form a single opinion. If one aims to eliminate the other or completely ignores the other’s existence, then it becomes a fight, not politics.” Lee added, “I will seek ways to restore politics again.”
Meanwhile, Lee criticized the government’s retraction of its policy to reduce the limit on ‘Didimdol Loans,’ a policy loan for those without homes, saying, “The government’s policies are swinging back and forth between extremes.” He compared it to the economist Milton Friedman’s ‘fool in the shower,’ remarking that when the shower water is too hot, it should be adjusted to a lukewarm temperature, but if you turn it completely to the cold side and then back again, you can’t take a proper shower.
He also mentioned, “In Journey to the West, there’s a fan used by a demon named Palm Leaf Fan. The demon lightly fans but brings a typhoon to the world.” He elaborated, “That’s what power is. If decisions are made hastily and aggressively without knowledge of the field, it indeed brings about a typhoon.”