The Third Intermission: About Voting.

Voting is the bare minimum we can do in order to create change. Talking to our peers, organising ourselves into effective groups that can lobby our leaders/protesting in general is a more public/powerful way to push for change. I understand that we are angry about so many things but throwing away one's right to vote is to spit in the face of history and the people that fought for universal suffrage.


Voting is the bare minimum that we can do to bring about the change.
If so many of our generation are refusing to tick a simple box, how can we ever bring about a great political movement that would shake the foundations of our country?

We need to push for more accountability and protest when a great injustice takes place.
Throwing away one's vote however is like throwing a tantrum.
Sitting in a park holding a drum circle is an equally wasteful action as it only causes a nuisance for dog walkers and not the establishment. Occupy Parliament if you want to make a difference. Occupying public places only disturbs the public peace...not the politicians. We need to disturb our leaders and not our neighbours. We need to drive our leaders mad, not each other.

I disagreed with someone once about AV. They went one way and I choose another but in the end I respected their wishes and understood that democracy is not about getting what YOU want. It was a heated argument and we did not speak for a while but I failed to appreciate that democracy is about other views besides my own. (Any comment section on any newspaper will give you an idea of what the mistake I made) Voting is about ensuring that the majority of the electorate get what they voted for.

Naturally the existence of a coalition represents a power grab and undermines the legitimacy of everything I have just said but that is where protesting comes in. Other countries fight until they bleed. We just moan until our jaws ache and refuse to raise our backsides off the chair in order to tick a simple box. :(

You must become the change that you wish to see the world.
Together we have the power to save ourselves from the tyranny of democracy.
Refusing to vote empowers those that will get elected, regardless of whether or not you choose to vote I know that a dozen other people will and so those that lead us will represent a smaller and forever shrinking group of people.

Workers rights are being eradicated because we are failing to act upon our most basic right.
I know politics is emotional and hits upon our most personal thoughts about the world we all live in.
I ran in an election and lost. A few close supporters helped me pick myself back up again and now I write again.

If you disagree I understand but I refuse to cast away a basic right that others have fought so hard for.

Thank you for reading.
This was The Common Sense Eccentric.