The Federation's political parties were, in reality, rather unusual "enterprises." In essence, they were not all that different from actual businesses.
To put it plainly, people joined a company to make money, realizing their social value through their labor or other means and steadily climbing higher.
Those who joined political parties were the same. Their goal was to realize their political ideals and ambitions, eventually becoming the ones who made the rules of the game and guided the country toward a better future.
When a company could never turn a profit and kept running up debts until it could no longer pay its employees, that was when it went bankrupt.
A political party was much the same. When the power it could firmly hold became less and less, while more and more "employees" found themselves stuck in meaningless positions where they could not realize their political ideals and ambitions...
When that happened, they would choose to leave rather than stay.
Those who stayed would always be the minority. Those who left were the mainstream.
Twenty-two years ago, a new generation that had just formally stepped onto the political stage was filled with longing to realize its ideals and ambitions. They had prepared to change the country through their own efforts.
Instead, they had been hit with a brutal blow.
Twenty-two years had taken them directly from their prime, in their thirties or forties, to the brink of retirement. The efforts of the previous thirty or forty years had become as worthless as water flowing away.
The persistence of the following twenty-two years would also become especially absurd and laughable.
After twenty-two years, they actually had almost nothing left.
Other than dissatisfaction, pain, doubt, and all kinds of negative emotions tormenting them, they could hardly feel any happiness at all!
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