Chen’s jail sentence should also serve to remind the DPP that it must become a party for all Taiwanese, “local” or not if it is to have any chance at a revival. Taiwan’s people know that they cannot prosper as a democracy if ethnic divisiveness is allowed to hold sway.
陈水扁的判刑同时亦提醒民进党，如果想要翻身的话它必须变成一个代表全台湾人的政党，无论这些民众是“本省人”还是“外省人”。台湾人业已意识到，一个族群分裂议题支配下的民主政体，是得不到繁荣的。