Japan: What happens if the assassin wins?

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Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SPECTACLES at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/spectacles — Shinzo Abe was murdered almost two years ago, and Japanese politics still isn't the same. — Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spectaclesmedia Check out our script and sources: https://www.spectacles.news/what-happens-when-an-assassin-wins/ Hang out on our Discord: https://discord.gg/VWcpybH683 — Spectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world. — CITATIONS (footnotes in CC) Note: Unless cited otherwise, all claims made reference our previous video on this subject and its antecedent citations: https://youtu.be/wFn6gWYMDpo 1. Asahi Shinbun, https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14676617. 2. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Japan). 3. Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1263388/japan-monthly-cabinet-approval-rating/. 4. Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-kishidas-support-hits-low-his-partys-ties-controversial-church-2022-10-09/ 5. Mainichi, https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20231016/p2a/00m/0na/005000c ↩︎ — 00:00 INTERSECTION 01:04 CHURCH 04:13 MANIFESTO 08:25 CHANGE