Our Good Representative

[mookiemookie]

What's amazing to me is that politicians like that get re-elected. I just can't follow the line of thinking that would have someone go "Well, he shows up to work drunk, parties with motorcycle clubs, makes racial slurs in public....ah heck, he seems like he'll do a good job." and then votes for him.

[Herr-Berbunch]

I thought it was just a Finnish thing!

[Hottentot]

I'm still theorizing that Hakkarainen is a real life equivalent of a forum troll, planted by the other parties to cause problems whenever they want the media's attention away from the real matters. Alternatively it's the greatest student prank all the time. Or both.

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

What's amazing to me is that politicians like that get re-elected. I just can't follow the line of thinking that would have someone go "Well, he shows up to work drunk, parties with motorcycle clubs, makes racial slurs in public....ah heck, he seems like he'll do a good job." and then votes for him.

I get the point, but Hakkarainen is a first time representative, and personally I'm not betting on him getting re-elected. Might even be that he won't run again. At least at some point he was already ragequitting himself, but I think he got over that.