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Originally Posted by Betonov
Maybe if we eliminate the pre-election campaign more voters would vote based on the achievements of the voted and not on their sweet talk.
C'mon, one has a whole mandate to make up his mind
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lieschen Müller is 78 years of age and hardly understands a word anymore. She does not know much about anything anymore, but she still goes voting. You can evenm buy her vote by promising her that her pension will rise. In a society that is rapidly overaging, and the financial burdens for the young threaten to sink them even before they can found and secure their own existence and future and family, this is almost cataclysmic a trend.
What have pre-election campaigns to do with this...? While pre-election campoaigns aim at making people act studid, there absence does not make people more educated and insightful, but leave them as they are.
And before somebody comes with the claim again that nobody pays attention to campaigns and stupid slogans anyway - parties would not invest those big ammounts of money into campaigns if they could not influence the voting outcome by that. Like the industry would not invest millions and billions into advertising, if that would not make a real difference in consumer behavior.
There is another inherent problem. Even if there would be no campaigns, elected parties and poltiicans tend to make policies that secure their next re-election. They still do so even if dpoing so comes at the cost of the overall interst and longterm perspective of the community, and comes at tzhe price of compromising state reason.
This is one of the showstopping bugs that so far no poltiical system - including democracy - has solved. And it cannot be overestimated. It is one of the reasons why our intended desiogn for Wetsern nations all have been corrupted and distorted into oligarchies run by lobby groups and political parties who rate their own powerinterest as higher as state reason and communal interest.
And you cannot vote it off.