Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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With the US mid term elections coming up, I wondered about the action of voting, in that we are told we must vote to prevent the nutters gaining power, but given what we have already, I am wondering who the nutters actually are.
So, given a hypothetical situation of an election in a considered stable country like some of those in the west, come voting time, what would happen if nobody voted, or indeed the fabled nutters, ( minority parties) were let in, would the inhabitants of that country be better or worse off ?
Perhaps it is the powerful parties, i.e. the ones that normally get in are maintaining the status quo as to how we all live, they speak of change in reply to the voter, but in reality nothing changes, or if it does, it is calculated so as to not upset the whole apple cart. So if the powerful parties are maintaining the status quo, what hope is there of change, as surely one powerful party will echo another powerful party whence in power, as the desire is not to change the status quo that they have campaigned hard to aquire.
If nothing worthwhile is being offered by a party, one sure fire way of seeking followers is to engage the passions of people, by appealing to erstwhile spoken under the breath, privately thought or uttered in accepting company kind of subjects, like racism and sectarianism etc. Fire the passions and the followers will be found.
Ok, say in this hypothetical situation despite all the campaigning and money thrown at the event, the voter turn out in favour of the usual winners was low or even non existant and a minority party got in, would the consequential governance be that different, would they be what the doomsayers in the major parties made them out to be, or would the change be more palatable ?
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