As the polling date for the mid-term election approaches, Simon's attention does turn to this matter.
The mid-term election in 1994 is related to the political structure of the United States at least 20 years before and after the millennium, and it is also a great turning point from neoliberalism to Neoconservatism in modern America.
All kinds of so-called "doctrines" can not be explained in a few words. Simon only cares about the elements related to the westero system.
For example, the attitude of the two concepts towards large enterprises.
Neoliberalism pursues fairness, which is why the U.S. government has split up and imposed strict anti-monopoly restrictions on enterprises such as at-t for many years. On the contrary, Neoconservatism advocates market freedom, so in 1994, it became the beginning of a series of industrial oligarchs in modern America.
It is difficult to judge which is better.
In the new liberalism era, the United States economy continued to lose vitality, which led to the rise of Japan to a large extent, making the United States have to use unconventional means to suppress Japan's threat to itself. Similarly, the most prosperous economy and the most serious economic crisis in modern America began in the Neoconservatism era in 1994.
For Simon, the latter can promote the development of westero system.
As a result, Simon might have been more willing to be a Republican supporter if it had not been for the times. In fact, in this mid-term election, the westrow system has begun to lay out bets on both sides.
Over the weekend, Simon spent most of his time dealing with mid-term elections, ostensibly staying at domay point estate.
In the large study on the first floor of Baker villa.
At the end of the call with Joseph schrap of the east coast, Simon puts down the phone and looks not far away. Holding Janet, who is identifying a wall full of nameplates in Seattle, he gets up and walks over to look at 46 pairs of nameplates on the whiteboard. These are the "sniper plan" and "maintenance of the basic disk" of the Westeros system in the 1994 mid-term election A list of all members of the house and Senate or candidate members of Congress.
After a series of lobbying, games or exchanges, the original "sniper plan" of 23 people was narrowed to 21 people, and the "basic maintenance plan" involved 25 people.
For more than half a year, the westero system has directly and indirectly invested more than 250 million US dollars in these lists on the wall, with an average of more than 5 million US dollars per head.
In contrast, the average campaign funding for a single Senate seat in this mid-term election is only $4 million, which is still on the premise of a substantial increase compared with previous years. The average campaign budget for the house of Representatives is even lower, at $500000.
Therefore, it can also be seen that the investment intensity of westero system is large.
Due to the strict restrictions of the federal election law, of the 250 million dollars, more than 200 million dollars are actually all kinds of indirect investment. The effect of this money may not even reach half of the campaign expenses with a clear purpose. However, as long as it is a slightly passable plan, even if it turns out to be useless in the end, even if it is pocketed by some people, Simon Without hesitation.
Simon westero's money is not so easy to get.
It is well known that the financial supervision of the subsidiaries of the westero system is very strict. In this mid-term election, in order to prevent some illegal channels that should not be used for capital inflow from being attacked, the financial supervision is even more strict, and all expenses above $100000 need to be approved by Simon or Janet
not only that, the intelligence of the Westeros family The team is also closely monitoring the specific cost of funds.
As a result, Simon is basically clear about the money that goes into the private purse.
It's just a deliberate turn of an eye.
When the water is clear, there is no fish.
However, taking money and not doing anything now does not mean that you will not have to pay in the future.
When necessary, these guys who are not in violation of the federal election law but are suspected of embezzlement can just be "scapegoats" for doing certain things. Or take this as a handle, or go to jail, or do some dirty work that can't be seen, it's also a good use.
Janet and Seattle are playing a name guessing game.
My daughter just looked at the name plate on the wall and remembered it clearly. She even knew exactly where someone's name was. It's a typical photographic memory.
Let the mother and daughter play for a while, Simon said with a smile: "don't spoil sear so much. Be careful that Moore and Nick won't kiss you in the future. They are your own. Besides, it's Nick's first birthday. Don't you help with the preparation? "
Janet pointed to another position, listened to Seattle accurately say the answer, intimately pasted a post on the little guy's face, it doesn't matter very much, said: "Jennie is preparing, I have already said, I exchange with her, sear is mine, Nick is her."
Simon is helpless.
Janet was very upset because she couldn't get pregnant all the time. In those days, when she saw other people's children, she felt good about them and wanted to take them home to support herself. When she was pregnant with Melbourne, she was very excited for a while.After Melbourne and Nicholas were born one after another, it seemed that they had completed certain tasks, and Janet soon lost interest in such tedious things as raising children. Veronica was in charge of Melbourne in the early days, and now it's Jennifer. For the love of Seattle, more and more intelligent big girls are naturally close to smarter little girls.
Ignoring her husband's expression, the tired Janet tucked Seattle into Simon's arms and asked, "I just heard you and Joseph talk about the NRA?"
Simon held his daughter, but he didn't mean to avoid the topic to the little guy. He said, "yes, this time there was too much noise. After the event, the two parties inevitably rebounded. They always had to find a scapegoat to take the lead."
In this mid-term election, the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat has been confirmed.
The two plans of the westero system, no accident, will end perfectly.
Now we need to consider the aftermath.
Although he is a very important supporter of the Democratic Party, because of the split within the Democratic Party, Simon can't guarantee that someone will jump out against the westrow system afterwards.
The Republican side needs to be more vigilant.
Simon didn't forget a small episode that happened to the Graf family. During this period, in addition to the CIA agents who evaporated among some people, Simon also impolitely destroyed a private equity fund with a scale of about 20 million on Wall Street, and the monitoring and tracing of this incident are still ongoing.
This time, whether it is the "sniper plan" or the "maintenance of the basic disk", most of the targets are aimed at the Republican Party.
Even the winner of this mid-term election, it is difficult to guarantee that the Republican Party will not settle the matter later.
The huge expenditure in the process of the mid-term election of the westero system is undoubtedly a flaw.
If you want to add sin to it, you have no choice.
Even though Simon is very cautious in the operation of funds, it is impossible that there will be no brush action. These are actually the default grey areas of both sides in the past political election process. However, if it is more serious, it must be trouble.
I've been thinking about it for a long time.
The solution is the "scapegoat scheme" just discussed with Joseph schrap.
In this mid-term election, the westero system performed very well, because the Clinton Administration introduced gun control laws in succession, and the enraged NRA took a big fight.
All Simon has to do is put the NRA in the front.
In the proposed plan, after November 8, voting day, the westero system will secretly disclose various plans of the National Rifle Association in the past year to some media holding gun control positions. At the same time, during this period, the westero system will also pay close attention to the shooting incidents in various parts of the United States as the subsequent "seasoning".
Shootings are very frequent in the United States.
In 1993, for example, not counting suicide, there were more than 40000 shooting cases in the whole year, and the death toll reached 13000. This kind of loss is equivalent to a large-scale war.
Therefore, if we expose the operation of the National Rifle Association in this mid-term election and publicize the serious consequences of some shooting cases, whether it is active or passive, the spearhead of public opinion will quickly point at the National Rifle Association. At that time, even the two parties in Congress will have to stand up.
The big head of the National Rifle Association is in the front, attracting most of the public opinion fire. Even if there are people looking for troubles in the westero system, Simon can relatively calmly deal with them.
In fact, during this period of time, it's not just the "scapegoat scheme", Simon has also made other arrangements intentionally or unintentionally.
For example, the "information age" marketing plan has been in full swing since the beginning of this month.
For example, Thanksgiving, which starts on November 11.
For example, it was specially put on the third Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on November 12.
These arrangements are designed to capture as much public attention as possible, so that they can move away from the mid-term election as soon as possible..
Brzezinski, the most famous western strategic thinker in the 20th century, has a very famous "pacifier theory". This theory is rarely used in the media, but it has been unconsciously popularized all over the world.
In my memory, the pacifier theory was proposed at a global elite gathering in San Francisco in 1995, and it is still 1994.
Simon was able to know in advance.
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the loss of the focus of the long-term confrontation between the East and the west, social problems such as the gap between the rich and the poor in this society will become increasingly prominent, and the 28 law of wealth concentration to the minority will become more and more serious.
In order to avoid the marginalization of 80% of the earth's population causing too much trouble to 20% of the upper elites, Brzezinski's solution is to plug "pacifiers" on these marginalized people. The specific measure is to vigorously promote the development of the entertainment industry, so that the virtual content such as video, music, games and so on can satisfy the sensory stimulation to the greatest extent The public eye makes these people gradually paralyzed, content with the status quo, and no longer think about social injustice and other practical problems.
In history, the most thorough and successful implementation of pacifier theory is undoubtedly South Korea.Under the control of the chaebol, social inequality in South Korea is very serious. However, South Korea's society has been very stable. As for the reason, it is self-evident to compare with the pacifier theory and look at the extremely prosperous entertainment industries such as movies, music and games in South Korea.
This is largely the reason why Japan's economy stagnated and its culture began to flourish again.
Twenty years later, Japan's so-called "low desire society" seems to be a serious social problem on the surface. In fact, it is not the result that the Japanese ruling class wants to see. No desire, only instinct, so that we can be a "social animal" with more peace of mind, right?
Later, smartphones are another pacifier around the world.
Simon remembers a statistic that more than 50% of the world's smartphone users use their phones for more than five hours a day. A person only has 24 hours a day, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, 3 hours of meals a day, the rest, just 5 hours.
As the Westeros system grew larger and larger, Simon began to think about it almost instinctively.
Public opinion is like water.
It's not empty talk.
If everyone thinks that the development of the westero system should be restricted, Simon will undoubtedly face great trouble.
This requires a solution.
Then Simon came up with the occasional "pacifier theory" in his memory.
Brzezinski is definitely a genius.
Long term planning can not be achieved overnight. However, in the short term, in order to shift the focus of public opinion and fill the public's attention with certain things, the current westero system can easily do it.
So there is this large-scale "information age" marketing plan.
Simon didn't explain the deep reasons to anyone.
Naturally, the reason for high sounding is to further promote the development of new technology industry and speed up the pace of the public entering the information age.
In just one week, the overwhelming "information age" publicity program has occupied a large number of media pages and easily suppressed the heat of the mid-term elections.
After the mid-term election, the "information age" marketing plan will continue. However, on November 11, when the Thanksgiving schedule of multiple films is launched, there will be a national level "end of the day" feast waiting for the public to enjoy.
Angels come.
I don't care about the midterm election.
In order to achieve this goal, the third Victoria's Secret fashion show even has to reach the sum of the previous two. Although the TV broadcast has to wait until November 16, after the scene on November 12, the mainstream media in North America will be filled with the topics of the show.
With all this going on, Simon doesn't believe how many people will pay attention to the mid-term elections that seem to be so manipulated.
Even if manipulated, it's the NRA's pot.
After chatting with Janet for a while, the phone rings, the woman leaves with Seattle in her arms again, and Simon continues to work.
Until evening.
Tonight is the first birthday party for Seattle and Nicholas. Seattle's birthday is November 3, three days earlier than his brother Nick. However, the female assistant offered to hold a birthday party for the two children. Officially, as twins, the two children were born on the same day.
Simon, of course, has no problem with that.
Because it's a children's birthday party, the guests tonight are specially selected. Except for a few of the core senior members of the westero system, other guests will come with their children.
Even though Simon didn't like to socialize in the domay point manor all the time, he was always invited, and the scale of the birthday party was more than 200 people. It's already winter and it's getting cooler, so the party can't be held in the open space of the manor, so the guests are lucky to enter the interior of Beck villa.