In polite society, three subjects must be avoided: women, religion and politics. This is presumably to avoid any arguments as gentlemen gather in the smoking room with a cognac and a cigar. Well, i’m not a gentleman, and it’s election day soon.
Some people are really bored at having to vote. All politicians lie, and there’s no difference amongst them. I tend to disagree. They might not keep their promises, but their promises are at least a declaration of intent. And their intentions differ a great deal.
Also, we do live in a parliamentary democracy, and i agree we have very little say. But once every four years we do, so we’d better make good use of it. We can at the very least penalize politicians when they missed the target, or when they went seriously wrong.
That’s what distinguishes this system from the more totalitarian ones. We force politicians to sell themselves – most of all the last few months before the elections. We’re the shareholders of this boat, so we can dump the CEO collectively.
Now. Who to vote for ?
Everyone’s probably seen this page or this one. For as far as anyone’s opinion can be determined based on 20 questions, it might be a pointer.
This site nicely lines up the links. Some of them are good-looking at first sight. Of course, the ideas are what counts, but the package would indicate their campaign managers have a clue.
One totally non-boring candidate: hats off for her marketing campaign. I don’t know if you notice, nobody seems to know what her actual ideas are (except she doesn’t like other politicians). I had a closer look at their site, and NEE actually encourages people to take an interest in politics, and not to vote for them. Good stuff.