Chapter 1638

From the background of the main universe, it is no longer in the era of economic upward movement like the universe Schiller is in. The United States, having experienced two economic crises, has drifted further and further away from the Golden Age. Under such an era background, people's expectations for leaders have naturally changed.

In the period of economic take-off, people hope that leaders can be wise, have long-term vision, have the potential to become great men, lead the whole country and even the world to go further, and create true miracles.

But in the period of economic downturn, people can't help but complain that they can't make money and prices are high, and their quality of life is constantly declining. People don't have the mind to care about major national affairs, and hope more that leaders can practically change the current predicament and make people's lives better.

Most voters in the era of the main universe think this way. They don't want those great men who boast that America's glory will last forever, but hope more that someone can practically see the predicament that the vast majority of people are trapped in and get the economic development path back on track.

This leads to the fact that from presidential elections to gubernatorial and mayoral elections, voters are more inclined to approachable doers. The vast majority of candidates are trying hard to show their energetic, capable, and willing-to-work image, with the wisdom to propose solutions that can fall to the ground for every problem, while also using some approachable hobbies to narrow the distance with voters, making them feel that they are standing with them.

Lincoln March's and current Mayor Magan's campaign teams both have rich experience, and in this era, having sufficient campaign experience means they have created such images for several candidates. Then when it comes to Magan and March, they naturally want to use the same trick.

The image created by the campaign team for March is a genius businessman who has achieved extraordinary achievements at a young age, possesses keen business sense and genius investment vision, and because he is worried about the current economic downturn, he wants to participate in politics and reverse the situation with his own hands.

Therefore, when he gives speeches, he often borrows some famous quotes from Roosevelt's rescue of the market, emphasizing letting professional people do professional things, claiming that he will operate the city as his own industry, and as long as the economy can be made prosperous, all problems can be solved.

The campaign team for Magan chose a mature and sophisticated old fox image with rich political experience, and emphasized his origin from a farmer family, climbing to today's position by his own ability, showing a miracle of a poor boy counterattacking to become a red man in political circles.

In his speeches, he often calls his campaign opponent a "little brat" to exert his age advantage, while subtly belittling other opponents as too idealistic, while he is mature and steady, won't mess around, and will develop steadily while stabilizing the status quo.

Obviously, between these two people, March wants to win the love of the new rich, while Magan wants to stabilize the support of the aristocratic wealthy. But they both forgot one point—this is Cat Getan.

If other cities are now at the bottom of development, then Cat Getan has always been an abyss. If the leaders who can reverse the situation in the impression of citizens of other cities are just economic doers, then I am afraid that the image of leaders who may improve this city in the impression of Cat Getan citizens is definitely not an iron-blooded emperor.

A shrewd and capable doer is already called a hardliner in other cities, but in Cat Getan, such a degree is far from enough. Iron-fisted leaders often appear in wartime, because people in this era need clearer guidance and a tougher attitude to build confidence for them.

And Cat Getan can no longer be said to be in a long-term wartime, but more like experiencing a very thorough defeat every few days, so even an iron-fisted general-type leader won't work. To put it bluntly, this place only needs a tyrant.

Perhaps a sufficiently tyrannical and tough emperor can't solve Cat Getan's darkness originating from metaphysics from the root, but at least he can tell Gothamites what they should do now. Even if it is rushing toward death without looking back, it is better than living in a daze now.

What Cat Getan needs now is not justice, but a route.

Gang-style violence, tyrant-style power, and even metaphysics that are a few centuries behind—as long as someone can firmly implement the route to the end, the situation will be much better than it is now. Even if the darkness still brings physical pain to the people of Cat Getan, having a pillar in spirit can be considered a kind of salvation in a sense.

Looking at comics, it is not difficult to find that in the vast majority of worlds where Batman chooses to change his route and stand on the stage, the possibility of Cat Getan being saved is much greater. But the problem is, whether a Batman in a universe can change his route is not decided by himself.

In some remote universes, editors might make decisions that violate the ancestors to play a trick, but the main world represents the face and lining of the DC world. The game Batman and the villains play is the most popular content in DC comics, so Batman in the main universe cannot stand on the stage.

It's just that Batman is still Batman, Cat Getan is still Cat Getan, and even the Penguin is still that ambitious Penguin. The fact that the Penguin becomes 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 transformation of language and style itself would also affect the performer himself, which is the so-called "the persona becomes real as you act."

After Jason completely taught the Penguin the style of Roy's speaking and doing things in his universe and his experience in running for Mayor of Cat Getan, the Penguin was shocked to find that this trick was too fucking easy to use.

The so-called "as long as I have no morals, you can't morally kidnap me," or "I'm already rotten like this, why can't I just rot?" In short, as long as one clearly recognizes the positioning of this city of Cat Getan, and one's own moral bottom line perfectly matches this positioning, then living here is simply like a fish in water.

The Penguin's previous dilemma lay in the fact that he was born in this chaotic city of Cat Getan, used gang means to accumulate resources for himself, but after achieving some success, he gave up such direct means and wanted to put on a coat of civilization for himself, mixing into the so-called upper-class society.

But the fact is, this requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and requires step-by-step planning and extreme caution.

But in fact, there is no need for such trouble in Cat Getan. Just pull the other party to the same level of rottenness as yourself, and then defeat them with rich experience. This is the biggest advantage of fighting on Cat Getan's home field.

The war happening in Cat Getan Midtown now made the Penguin realize this, and then he abandoned his civilized disguise at the fastest speed and started doing things that Gothamites should do.

What deep-water port approval? What do Gothamites need approval for? I'm going to knock the first wooden pile of the dock into the sea now. If you are not convinced, come over and hit me.

What? Environmental protection organizations condemn from public opinion? But Cat Getan has never seen less condemnation even if it is environmentally friendly! Then why should I care about condemnation? Build the deep-water port hard, discharge sewage hard. Even if a Godzilla rushes out of the sea, it's something we solve ourselves.

The Penguin's connections in crime are much stronger than Robin's. He directly won over several regular customers of the Iceberg Lounge, brought along smuggling merchants he had contacted from other places, and a group of people directly ignored the environmental protection bill and the state legislature. The engineering team marched to the dock site in a mighty way.

The deep-water port is of course not built that fast, but the smugglers' smuggling ships couldn't wait. Big ships can't dock, small ships are fine. Directly and blatantly dock to unload goods. Whoever stops them dies.

You ask why Cat Getan police don't care? Isn't Midtown having a small-scale war? Even if Gordon had three heads and six arms, he couldn't fight conventional crime, stop the war, and inspect smuggling at the same time.

This brings us back to Cat Getan's insufficient police force. Why doesn't the FBI come? A small-scale war has broken out here, why don't we see the army's shadow?

If it weren't for the federal government and the state legislature being shrinking turtles, how could Cat Getan be rotten like this? Then why can't we be rotten? We'll just be rotten!

Facts have proven that as long as a person has a smooth logic that can throw all the mistakes to others, then the waist doesn't hurt, the legs don't ache, and life becomes beautiful.

The Penguin not only built a deep-water port in violation of regulations and sent people to meet smuggling ships, but also said everything he did in his speech.

"Dear listeners and friends, I think you have already heard that our dear state legislator broke into a curse at Cat Getan again at the last regular meeting, especially at me, Oswald."

"But do I care about him? No, I don't care at all. No matter what they say, I don't care, because they have never cared about me."

"How superior the geographical conditions of Cat Getan Bay are, how suitable the delta at the mouth of the river is for transshipment and trade—they have never cared. How many people could have gone to the docks to be porters to sell strength to make money, how many people could have gone to the ships to be sailors to live a stable life—they have never cared either."

"What do they care about? They only care about that bullshit environmental protection law!"

"Just last week, our legislator Lauder just purchased a private jet for his newlywed wife, and traveled between Metropolis and San Francisco more than a dozen times in a week. Just now, he claimed on his private media that 86% of Cat Getan's factories have energy waste problems, and demanded that non-compliant factories stop work for self-inspection."

"They are not only coming for Cat Getan, but also for me, because I hired more than two thousand workers to build the dock without getting approval, and introduced several thousand strong young men to my business partners to run ships. I let them go smuggling, go be mercenaries, go join gangs."

"But no matter how heinous I am, it's not their turn to point fingers at me—Andegis Lauder, listen to me, you aren't saying I'm a dirty gang remnant, an executioner with hands full of blood? When you are pressed on the guillotine by me and have your head chopped off with one 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 a legislator? No, I'm afraid it's not that simple.

Batman's brain worked at high speed. He immediately guessed the Penguin's intention. After a slight pause, he disappeared from the Batcave. Immediately after, a Batwing took off and disappeared into Cat Getan's vast night.