Election day
Six candidates running for president of this poor country we live in.
Yes, I did vote already. Not that any of the candidates looks any good to me.
Not naïve enough to seriously believe in any of them.
Still one tries to figure out who's the lesser evil.
Still one hopes someday another candidate will come, an honest man surrounded by sensible people who is in fact willing to think about the nation first, to think about the common welfare instead of his own profit and the interests of the lobbies paying for his campaign.
One thing we can't do is stay away from the entire process, by not voting what we are saying is that we don't care who runs this country nor to what happens to the lot of us.
Not voting is tacitly agreeing to whatever happens.
For my part I've taken my share of responsibility to the voting booth, now I'll just sit back and watch the feathers fly.
Yes, I did vote already. Not that any of the candidates looks any good to me.
Not naïve enough to seriously believe in any of them.
Still one tries to figure out who's the lesser evil.
Still one hopes someday another candidate will come, an honest man surrounded by sensible people who is in fact willing to think about the nation first, to think about the common welfare instead of his own profit and the interests of the lobbies paying for his campaign.
One thing we can't do is stay away from the entire process, by not voting what we are saying is that we don't care who runs this country nor to what happens to the lot of us.
Not voting is tacitly agreeing to whatever happens.
For my part I've taken my share of responsibility to the voting booth, now I'll just sit back and watch the feathers fly.
posted by DCveR at 4:38 PM
17 Comments:
I agree somewhat...
I didn't vote in our last presidential election. Or the one before that.
If my family is going out for dinner, and the only restaurants available are Chinese and Mexican, I won't say which I prefer. Both will make my stomach angry! In that case, silence is agreeing to be uncomfortable for the sake of everybody else.
I think it's the same in a political race where all the candidates are basically the same. But if one of them was especially evil, just itching to launch nuclear missiles or something, ok, then I'd go vote for the lesser evil...
It's amazing how similar elections can be, no matter where you live. I have the same sentiment when it comes to our elections in the US. Sure, we have a vote, but we often feel disenchanted by our choices, and the whole process seems like a joke, in the end. Sad, isnt' it?
viking: That makes you a Bush supporter, as easy as that.
nat: It may be sad, but it is also up to us to help doing something to change it, I always get the feeling we should force our politicians to act better.
Is there ever a candidate that looks good?
Sometimes I wonder if some of them are honest, hard working, etc, but are victims of the media...who tar and feather them.
bent: There have been a few honest politicians throughout history, like Olof Palme or Robin Cook. But those really seem to be exceptions.
GG: I would gladly tar and feather all six candidates so I would not be throwing the first stone to the media if they were willing to do it too. :D
Maybe you could call me a Bush condoner... but supporting and allowing are entirely different.
Is it simple first past the post?
I never waste my vote but I seemed to be jinxed! I always vote for the loser!
Honest politicians? They may start honest but pressures will just govern the way they do things.
I do not believe for one moment that, nowadays a head of government is ever free to do as he likes. Advisers, Big business etc... are the ones who really rule countries.
people are always yelling at me but i have never voted and do not plan on it, (unless a woman is running)
because: it is ALWAYS about the money- all politicians are in JUST to move things into position to make profit from it for their "friends" and themselves. lesser evil- no such thing- its just voting for a different set of "friends" to get rich.
i'll vote for a woman just for fun- but not because i actually believe in the political system.
even Lula in brazil with his poor boy sob story- the moment he got into power he sold his grandmother on the blackmarket.... they're all the same.
Who is the favorite? What are the big issues being discussed/decided? I'm curious.
Its also election day in Canada today.
Who is the favorite? What are the big issues being discussed/decided? I'm curious.
Its also election day in Canada today.
I didnt vote on the last elections here as well, but that doesnt mean that I support any of the candites. If the candidate is too fucked up, or too toothless to give any support, I rather not vote. I vote out of my conscience, and not out of any ballot-odds. I disagree when you say that Viking is a bush-supporter for not voting; the system is to blame for viking not voting. The government is supposed to be there for the voters and not contrary. Sadly that is the situation in most democracies today. As I think this is too fucked up, I wont partisipate because of my consciousness. I'm entirely for democracy, but then it ought to be a democracy before I do my "democratic duties". I wont be a part of a farce nor a hypocrit wannabe fair democratic system; voting would make me an active participant as I see it....
Im so angry, im so at ease(from work without my password...)
lol, found my password:)
hughes: Say what?!
cream: Looking at most of the world's rulers today, the ones who got elected that is, having voted for the candidates who lost seems a sign of good sense.
ale: I don’t think Lula’s story is a “poor boy sob story”. He was a working man. I still think he is a working man. My friends from Brazil (part of my family, my colleagues, GH’s colleagues, etc…) all seem to agree that his government is the best that could be achieved after all that was behind. And remember that for the first time ever Brazil managed to get free of the yoke of the World Bank and the IMF, same as to say the American yoke. Of course Lula couldn’t end all the corruption of the ‘machine’ and still keep the country keep the country’s infrastructures working.
phoenix: The favorite won, we have a new president of the republic. And wonder of wonders: if you ask me a bad one, again.
isa, isae: IFF the candidate that actually wins has more votes than both the other candidates and the abstention, you are right. But that is seldom the case. So if the votes of one of the runner ups plus abstention were enough to win against a bad candidate, all those who didn’t vote are as responsible for the bad ruler as those who voted for that said ruler, from my point of view they are supporters. Passivity is worst than misguidance from where I see it. So, someone who stands away from the decision may even be more of a culprit than someone who voted on a bad candidate out of being deceived by a campaign. But this is only a personal opinion, of course.
Ok, I see your point, and if we lived in democratic societies I would also agree... The point is; when the"democracy" is down rotten and depending on who has the most capaignfunding, it's not any longer a democracy. Its a pure capitalist society, which I cannot, in any cicumstance, be a part of. So I choose too stand aside. Lower and lower participating during elections is a huge problem for the governments throughout europe and the rest of the western world, here they even made a law that forbidds to count the blank votes(for practical reasons... After too many started voting blank). Untill the "democracy" is able to even vizialise this contradiction, I wont vote. If this was democracy, and not hypocracy, they would take that half of the unvoting population in concideration, and try to get them to the booths, but as they are earning themselves they wont do it. So I mean its worse to vote halfheartedly than to not even bother; remember that all the minus sides of the "winner" also gets boosts from your vote. I sencerily mean that clinton was better that bush, but i could never give him my voice; he started the war on Somalia and Yugoslavia; neither were approved by the un untill afterwards. As I mean Clinton was too rightwing, I should not be forced to vote on him or else there would be a much worse sucker on the throne. If the system, and partys are so narrowed down, its a bigger statement to not participate. In such cases governments are bullshit and politicians mere freeriders useing a falling system, and its not that voters are being lazy that is the problem. Its the politicians responsibility, not the voters, to follow, build and uphold our wellbeing, not the opposite. I wont vote pro anything I dont believe in on basis that it might end of worse if I dont. If there is no alternative for me to vote, then its not... I cant change my consciousness and vote for a guy that might assault Iran, or a fucker that would support Iran assulting Israel. Its the same deal; the assault in it self is the problem. As I oppose to this militaristic policy "democratic" nations today are following, wich makes those in power stronger, and those voting as scapegoats for crimes against humanity... Im not being a part of that shit, so I wont vote... At least not untill I live in a real democracy, then I would see it as a duty, but this pure populistic comedy of a warmongering moneymachine-democracy as we see in europe and usa today, that duty could surely kiss my grass!
I saw the results in our papers yesterday.
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