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The people also have the power to change the regime by civil war. Is this why you have the brackets around the peaceful bit?The only power we have, is the power to change the regime (by peaceful and democratic means)
1. Who they think will win - everyone likes to back a winner. This is controlled by the media.
2. Who their peers votes for, such as parents etc.
3. Many people don't even bother voting, making the result unrepresentative.
4. Some people would have met their candidate on the doorstep and blindly agreed a vote - or maybe liked the nice poster on the lamppost.
5. Tiny proportion read the manifestos and make a (somewhat) informed decision.)
Do you have any practical/realistic suggestions for improvements on the situation as you see it?umop3p!sdn said:(Off topic - but voting is pretty much a farce to appease the electorate. The people who want power, stay in power via this mechanism. People vote according to the following criteria:
1. Who they think will win - everyone likes to back a winner. This is controlled by the media.
2. Who their peers votes for, such as parents etc.
3. Many people don't even bother voting, making the result unrepresentative.
4. Some people would have met their candidate on the doorstep and blindly agreed a vote - or maybe liked the nice poster on the lamppost.
5. Tiny proportion read the manifestos and make a (somewhat) informed decision.)
ClubMan said:What is a farce is the likes of the Seanad which isn't even a democratic institution with members either appointed or elected by select cabals. It really should be abolished or replaced with an upper house whose members are elected by universal suffrage.
redbhoy said:...and voting should be made compulsory also.
redbhoy said:Political education should be compulsory in primary and secondary
redbhoy said:voting should be made compulsory also.
ronan_d_john said:Strongly strongly disagree.
I have never voted in my 14 years of being eligible to vote, and I don't intend to start.
Why would you go and make me vote????
Janet said:I also think voting should be compulsory. Or at least everyone eligible to vote should have to turn up on the day
Janet said:I also think voting should be compulsory. Or at least everyone eligible to vote should have to turn up on the day - they should then have the choice to vote or register a conscientious objection type view to the process. But too many people don't vote out of sheer laziness and I have a big problem with that.
There really is no point in moaning/whingeing/arguing/debating/ about events before or after an election/vote/referendum if one doesn't bother to exercise one's vote.but everyone having the same opportunity and voice is what matters.
Seems odd (to me anyway) not to vote but to then call on others to make their voices heard by lobbying politicians directly.ronan_d_john said:I have never voted in my 14 years of being eligible to vote, and I don't intend to start.
Marion said:There really is no point in moaning/whingeing/arguing/debating/ about events before or after an election/vote/referendum if one doesn't bother to exercise one's vote.
Marion
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