How to Vote

[strangedave]

As we have an election tomorrow here

Comments

[randy_byers]

Good rant, even if you are preaching to the choir in my case.

[dalmeny]

I just wish that the Press ever made some attempt to summarize the views of the minor parties. I shouldn't have to spend quite so much time googling.

[shortblack]

Excellent rant Dave - people who complain about having to vote or who do want to engage in the political system at all need to live somewhere where they do not have the right to vote or are completely powerless to change their country's policies etc

[strangedave]

I'm sure you've heard our favourite story about being on the booths on election day, and the guy handing out how to votes for the Libs was a recent migrant from Myanmar, and kept being so happy about how we were all supporting different political parties, but no one had threatened or attacked him, every was so polite, no official corruption etc. Living in a functional democracy is awesome!

I mean, sure, I wish we had a better political culture - but no violence, dependable election bureaucracy not corrupted by political interference, rule of law! Yay!

[alaimacerc]

Yes, good rant. I'm rather persistently annoyed by this sort of thing: the constant "splitting to the left"(*) in (the Republic of) Ireland, notwithstanding that no sort of remotely left-ish party or grouping has ever achieved a plurality here, much less an electoral majority. Yes, I think their policies pretty milquetoast and half-hearted too, but can we please try to walk before we run, here? Or rather, walk before we fall flat on our faces and have another ninety uninterrupted and essentially undifferentiated years of centre-right economics and the worst forms of cheesy ethno-nationalism? No? Oh well