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Originally Posted by Platapus
This is what is disappointing about American politics. More often we are forced to vote for the person we hate the least as opposed to voting for the person we like.
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First, it is the same over here as well, Second, nonody forces you to vote. I am a string defenr of actively deciding to boycot elections and by that bpoting against pliticians instead for them. I juust insist oin people not to jump elections, buit to give an invalid vote instead - so that non-voters cannot be accused of keeping away for reasons of comfort and laziness, or avoiding responsibility . I give a vote indeed when chosing to make my billet invalid.My vote says that I actively refuse to legitimize what I consider to be bad and undefendable, that I do not trust the system and it's representatives.
That choice you have over there as well. but if you give a valid vote, it means much more than just voting for a candidate. I means you accept the system itself, and it breeding the same kind of untrustworthy profi politicians all time long, and that you actively accept this to be carried on by parties who rate their own power interests higher than the interests of the national community.
In Germany, for the first time ever, the conservative CDU has more members than the SPD, that has been reported in the news today. but that means only that the SPD is loosing members faster than the conservatives do. Fact os both parties have a massive decrease in numbers of memeberships, and since many years. Why under this condition participating in election still is above 50% , can only be explaoned by that bad habits die hard. Like people jump into churches at christmas, even if it is the only day in the year they do so, and for many of them relgious content means nothin for them - many do it for sentimental reasons while remembering their childhood when their parents took them to church as well on christmas evening. The common phrase "But soembody you just have to vote for" in the main illustrates just one thing: fatalism.