Every few years, when the election period of politicians is nearly over, people all over the country are again summoned to nearby polling stations to give their vote to their favourite representative. Of course many promises have been made beforehand; promises that well paid politicians of various parties regard as useful to get votes from as many people as possible; and as the times always haven´t been that worse like at the moment, people are more than willing to believe all the honourable ideas to make things better which nicely suited, smiling men and women tell them in the media. Then, when the election is finally over, a sudden wave of memory loss washes most of these ideas away and over board, leaving nothing else behind than more or less smiling politicians in their struggle to remember their given promises – too late. People will have to deal with the situation for a few more years. It is probably better not to vote at all and show the political parties that we don´t want to be fooled another time. Is it really the better choice?
Of course it is easy to stand back and spare the way to a polling station on an election day. It is said that people who don´t do anything, don´t make mistakes at all, but that is not how a healthy democracy works. It is the peoples right and it also should be their duty to give their vote to a candidate that seems to represent their opinion. Even if their choice might be the smallest of a dozen evils, it is probably better to vote for it than not to vote at all. Not to do so means that they do not care at all or that they have resigned and finally believe they cannot change a tiny little thing. But the truth is: If people don´t vote, they actually miss their at least small chance to initiate changes.
We also should remember that when citizens are satisfied with the current circumstances, it would be in their own interest to maintain the status quo and the only way to do this is to vote.
Apart from that: not only do we have the right to elect a person, we also have the right to take an even more active part in politics by joining a political party and articulate our ideas. It wouldn´t be the first time that a young man or women is climbing the political ladder, trying to change adverse conditions themselves.
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2 comments:
Only one small mistake:
"that a young man or women is climbing the political ladder"
(It should be 'that a young man or *woman* is climbing the political ladder') womEn is plural, womAn is singular!
Very good mate but all I would say is instead of having
'when the election period of politicians is nearly over,'
You could make it read better if you had somthing like:
'as the electeral period for politicions is drawing to a close...'
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