Hi there, if you want the short answer, yes, it is important.
What are the reasons for not voting?
If you think like a large number of Chileans, a very clear answer could be because it is useless, although you vote, there are still the same empty promises and the same candidates of always. If less and less people vote, it is because of a clear feeling of impotence, abuse and abandonment by the political elite, and as far as I'm concerned it's real, and I understand perfectly well the reasoning of people who think that it makes no sense to even be interested in it. At the end of it all "we're going to work anyway."
But why does this happen? why a candidate is able to run a campaign based only on empty promises and succeed?
Well that's only possible because you don't vote.
When people do not vote, they allow the candidates to concentrate all their resources on the few people who actually vote. If it is not profitable for them to try to make innovative government programs, they are not going to do it, because they want to win elections and the most profitable way to do it these days is by making promises and meeting with people who you know do vote and mobilize their close ones to vote.
Let's hope that people became more aware of this after everything that has happened these last years in chile, because we can only make the politicians stop selling smoke and take the people seriously if it is the people who decide it, that they realize that we are no longer the same ingenuous people that they can fool as they usually do.
An informed citizenry will want to change what is not working, and probably will know what is not working, so if a politician wants to win an election with an informed citizenry he will have to prove that he can change what is not working and do things differently.
So, Is voting important?
If you are tired of politic being a business, and that once and for all it works like a tool to make a difference, then fuck yes!
You have reason, Tomas!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I will add that, if it doesn’t stop this abuse and abandonment by politicians, they will continue transgressing the democracy of our country.
The votation emerges like a democratic element in the system for choose at the persons that we want in the charges. Unfortunately, many authorities when they come to power forget what they promised. The change must be external and internal, that is, that the majority of the people vote and that the candidates who are elected respond to the trust that people place in them.
What a great post, mate.
ReplyDeleteWhile it is understandable that more and more people believe less and less in the political class (and with good reason), it is extremely important to exercise the right to elect their representatives, otherwise it will be very difficult to change things. It is necessary that people value the incredible power they have in their hands to elect the people who will govern their country, their community, their population, etc. and to achieve this in a good way, as you said, it is essential that people are informed and educated about the processes and the candidates for the different positions. Without information and active participation, the only winners are the same as always.
Greetings, Tomás.
Shout it out loud!
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