[Skybird]

If you guys cannot decide by yourself what party matches your politic views (and why you think so!) - then you should not even be allowed to vote, becasue you have not sufficient education and experience about what you vote for or against. Sorry if that sounds rude, but if you depend on an arbitrary software routine whose inner mechanisms you do not even question and analyse, then you are not ripe to have a word in political processes.

That is as if you are asking some stranger what to vote - and then do so. What'S the use of that? You give up your freedom that way.

And if somebody gets interested only becasue he gets a game or gadget to play around with, the same arguments apply. If you do not feel the responsibility to participate in political processes (which includes to decide not to vote - as long as you know your political arguments why you refuse to do so), then you should not make an entertaining show of it. It is kind of an abuse of a freedom that is claimed to be precious by many.

Poltiics should be about arguments, reason - not about being entertained, or getting talked into something. This is no TV game show. You cannot be a responsible person when interested in poltiics, if you do not invest the time to get educated about it.

Although campaigns make a hollow show of it, admitted.

P.S. I know from own observation as well as from professional teachers I am friend with, that in germany in past years in order to improve the education quotient and the quality of the german school system, giving too many bad notes in a class has practically become forbidden, and standards by which teachers should evaluate the performance of students in tests have been lowered - and very much so. the desired class mean values decide how the indovidual'S performance in a test gets scored. when I was at school, it was exactly the other way around. By perverting things like this, the general performance quotient raised, giving an appearance of students in Germany having become better. But in fact they have become worse. You can change such general performance mean quotients in two ways: by students becoming better and thus scoring better with the same tougher standards of before: or by letting them stay where they are, and lowering standards, so that the same infeiror performance gets rated better.

Things like the Whal-o- mat compare to such a lowering of standards, standards in political education, for example, and seeing the responsibility in accepting oneself to be a political person (which, btw, means much more than just voting, or holding a party membership - in fact parties are the worst part of politics, it seems to me).