LDP and Yomiuri Giants

There will be a national election in a month. I sometimes wonder whether there is a homology between the popularity of the Liberal Democratic Party and that of the baseball team Yomiuri Giants. I mean, don’t Japanese tend to support the strongest without “good reasons”? (But, I must point out that the Giants has been struggling in recent years.) I think Japanese politics will be better off if we have more--yes, more!-- (young) people who are willing to think and act outside of the hegemonic, challenging and transforming the inertia of the postwar social system that is now undermining the prospect of Japan in the 21st century.