Political Responsability

It's not electoral times yet - though the potential candidates are already lining up, and some of them have been talking elections and positioning themselves since the first day of the current term - but this is a very good moment to evaluate our political choices in an honest, clear, clean way. In the past election some of us won, some of us lost, but the elections are felt by all of us. It's quite interesting how often happens that when a party wins the followers celebrate and are rubbing their victory in the noses of the losers, but around this time - midway into the term, you hardly find thor followers, and rather they deny ever voting for the party that might be pushing the country over the cliff.

Often the behavior and the way people relate to politics the same way as they relate to sports and sport teams. The elections are much like a one-every-four-years-superbowl where there are no passes, no interceptions, no touchdowns, but debates, debates and then staring at a map for a whole day waiting for numbers to show who ultimately won "the game". However, Politics are not a sport, are not a game, are a decision about how the life of a whole country will be lead. In this sense, before you cast your vote - and this isn't like voting on American Idol or any reality show - you should consider each candidate, the party standing behind them and how those parties and the Presidents or Prime Ministers from those parties have performed in the past.

Publicity is massive and all sorts of promises fly around, of which you can't count on half of them - they are just promises that are meant not to be kept - but from the general political philosophy - the real and applied philosophy of the party! - one can always make a general draft of what can be expected from them if elected and whether that's what you consider is the best for the country.

A friend commented to me in a letter that she couldn't understand why some Governments sought to stupidify their people. She asked rightfully whether it shouldn't be in the best interest of the nation to have a better educated population, a thinking, intelligent population. The natural answere should be "yes", but often Governments are not the same thing as "State", and though they represent the State and the People, they are in reality still a "party" and they work often for a set of particular interests that benefit from the exploiting of the population. A smart population would question and oppose, while a stupified population can be deluded, won't as questions and can be easily and cheaply manipulated, and here's where all the publicity and all the promises as well as all the cheap tricks like promising houses or buying poor sectors a Happy Meal at McDonalds, come to play.

Now, we might be getting a poor education at school - be it from a private or a public school system, as I've heard also unflattering stuff from private schools - it is OUR choice to remain stupidified or to break from it, educate ourselves, read, reseach, seek out knowledge and pass the flame to others. It is also our choice to decide how we want to vote, how we choose our rulers. Wanna make an educated, researched, studied, COMMITED choice or do you do it based on empty fanatism? But whatever you do, OWN YOUR CHOICE, because whether you own it or not, your vote count and you are responsible for the kind of politics and social, economical and national circumstances you are living in.