Watched "Great Gatsby" film last weekend. The story gave me a sense of something familiar. Then the election day came. And I realized what that familiar thing is. Jay Gatsby, who faithfully, and even fatally loved Daisy Buchanan, can be a metaphor of the "Masa" electorate, ever dreaming of their politicians as their inamorata who they thought also faithfully loved them, and only them. However, (as Jay Gatsby also painfully found out) Daisy loved not only Jay, but also Tom Buchanan, our "Masa," always finds itself tragically invariably betrayed by the politicians who time and again promised them heaven every campaign period, but only delivered them hell once already elected into office. As Daisy decided to abandon Jay (despite Jay saving her from criminal prosecution having accidentally hit and ran over her husband's mistress, by Jay owning-up to driving the fatal vehicle) , and go with Tom Buchanan when things got difficult, so also many of our politicians also just conveniently abandon their "Masa" electorate so as to enjoy their elitist and self-centered pursuits. In the end, as Tom Buchanan even manipulated the husband of his mistress into killing Gatsby, the "Masa" is eventually left to hang, fend for themselves in the mire which the scheming politicians themselves created. Yet, as Jay Gatsby still hopelessly waited, and died waiting, for the love of selfish Daisy, up till now, the masses still wait before their politicians who kept such faithfulness unrequited.
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