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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
That the majority considered him preferable to the alternative. If those are the choices offered, what do you suggest we do?
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Boycott both parties, de-legitimise their ways, strip them off their influence and power by civil disobedience, that way render them useless and powerless. They are deeply corrupt, deeply selfish, deeply lobby-infiltrated clubs that both border organised crime. They do not deserve your loyalty nor obedience, nor anyone else's. If the choice is between two evils, none of them becomes less evil just because there is no better alternative. The problem, you Americans often say, is "too much state". I see it a bit more differentiated. The problem is too much political party, too much lobbyism, too much career politicians, to much lack of transparency.
If the Wikileak principle would be victorious throughout the world, there would be no basis for diplomatic services and politicians anymore. Because both can only work in the darkness of lies and deceptions and dishonesty. And lobbying entrepreneurs and businessmen would run an omni-present risk to be pulled into the spotlight of public awareness if they play foul against the electorate, for their own personal profit.
If you skip a bad status quo, you have a chance for imporvements and a chance for failing in seeking for them. If you tolerate a bad status quo, you have guarantee that there will be no improvements.
I refuse to be deceived by liars and thimbleriggers. Falling for them means to become guilty and sharing responsibility for a corrupt, dysfunctional system living on. That'S why I do not vote, but boycott any legitimation process for politicians, and the system itself. My political responsibility as a citizen is to talk to my next one and trying to convince him. Democracy only has a chance to work from the bottom to the top, it does not work from the top down to the bottom. Transparency is an inevitable precondition for it.
If you have only two bad choices, nobody holds a weapon at your sleeve to make you choose, Steve. If you chooce nevertheless, you make a bad choice.
The system is deeply corrupt, beyond repair. Don't vote. Boycot elections. Overturn political parties. Not only in America, but in all Europe and Asia as well (Africa anyway).