Couldn't agree more. However, unless we all change the system, you gotta exercise your right to have at least some say lest the prick you don't want in gets to power because of the poeple who DO vote for them. But to be honest, I'ms aying that as an Australian - we are brainwashed to beliee it's a democrtic necessity and we get fined if we don't vote, enough to send us all the polls for a democracy sausage (yes, we have a sausage bbq at any opportunity). Many of us don't look at where the money is coming from or where the interest lies, or indeed where it goes ultimately. THe whole political system is totally fucked, just as the education system is, and we need change, but don't have the imagination as a whole to do it, and those that do use their imagination to profit and control and don't really care about people like us. How many of us are totally cynical about the whole process?
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You get fined if you don't vote? :O That seems like it should be illegal...as for the sausage, a populist party tried to 'bribe' the populace with traditional goodies one time and the intellectual militia snobs never let them hear the end of it. Very calloused making fun of people living in poverty for whom that bribe was valuable, but still, that's the kind of vibe around here.
I agree, if you have someone you specifically don't want to get it, then maybe you should vote. But what if you don't got a preference either way? A lot of people are buying into the whole "vote so that they can't vote for you" type of mentality but I'm not convinced my actions would actually stop them from committing election fraud if that's the plan.
Yeah no one understands the Aussie fine thing. It's about 200 AUD I think but not sure. And you can always draw a penis on the ballot paper which makes it null and void.