Since he's the mirror world evil version of Eugene Debs, the script says he'll win. If it wanted to be as entertaining as possible.
Beau notes the polling on "wokeism": ~56% view it as being aware of injustices in society. While only 36% view it as virtue-signalling and policing speech. But as I always say, the electorate is groomed to be the worst of us so it probably won't matter much when it comes to elections. Like the xenociders in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, they just care more.
BIL wrote:
Just how much of my culture have the BurgerNazis appropriated
A heckin' lot. Brutal violence power fantasies with ruthless pecking orders and hierarchies make awesome fiction (Xianxia.txt right there), but there's uh... not a totally insignificant number of authors who think that kind of thing is good in the real world.
Even Kirkman, the Walking Dead/Invincible guy, is as liberal-brained as most people. Pretty much every single ending of every book he does ends with the protagonist being made king of some group of exceptional violence-do'ers that all loyally follow him like robots for no good reason, and they go on to fix everything with their benevolent dictatorship.
Oi, my favorite example is the web novel God and Devil World. At first it seems like very orthodox wonderful trashy fare: the videogame apocalypse happens, and a group of plucky college students have to band together to fight back to level up and survive.
Then in one arc the group comes into conflict with this little warlord, the kind of guy straight out of Hokuto no Ken. The warlord gives this long speech about his ultimate goals and motivations, basically he wants to become emperor of a new Chinese empire. It's oddly specific and overly long. The MC eventually kills the guy and liberates his uh, "prisoners".
Flash forward a couple arcs, and there's a city that's cartoonishly kind to foreign representatives for no realistic reason. The MC is infuriated by this, giving word-for-word the same stock phrases you'd heard a million times from any racist around here: "I don't hate foreigners, I just think we need to take care of our own first!" I think he goes on to murder most of the foreigners.
And then a couple chapters later he effectively becomes worse than the evil warlord guy he fought a few hundred pages back. At this point I "got it", that little warlords' speech was what the author really believes.
I didn't sign up for this... I just wanted to know if they were gonna go back into the video game town with the video game NPC's, or if that was one of many dropped elements. Dropped elements are always an exciting element of the trashiest web novels, you don't know when they'll show up again, if ever. It's addictive like a slot machine. Shrodinger's elements.
... sweet jesus, just saw that the MC's wiki page says he possesses more than
52 ladies by the end of the book. I totally get that subplot in Arrogant Young Master that rants about this shit in bad webnovels, what is even the point.