Sheik djibouti
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I'm sure lots of people are holding their nose/shielding their eyes whilst supporting this government because they see no tangible, realistic or palatable alternative. I think this is part due to further entrenchment/tribalism that has been encouraged by the media and exacerbated by extremely complicated issues being presented as a binary choices with little or no attempt at nuance.....you are either with us or against us.
Many cannot countenance being "against" even though much of what they see by being "for" smells very bad indeed. As bad as it may smell, they cannot countenance supporting an alternative, particularly for some if they are labouring under the misapprehension that they will be worse off as individuals if they did.
The situation again is not made any better by a simple binary win or lose voting system in FPTP. It is extremely backward and a disservice to true democracy which should work for the vast majority of people most of the time, surely.
And this is precisely why the whole issue of standards, morality and proberty in public life should be a massive issue people are made to care about. They work for us and use/misappropriate our money while doing it. They should be beyond reproach, rather than the snake oil salespeople we currently have to endure.
As an aside, It will be interesting the see the political direction Germany takes when Mutti finally shuffles off. A few weeks ago a CDU/Green coalition seemed likely, but now it seems the greens are forging ahead and could easily be the ones that pick and choose who they go into coalition with. The Greens political stance is pretty centerist and obviously majors on climate change and socially responsibility and reform as well as "making politics for society at large". As they aren't particularly left or right, it will be interesting to see if they can hoover up enough wavering voters who've had enough of the traditional parties and whether or not this will be somewhat of a blueprint of alternatives elsewhere.
Many cannot countenance being "against" even though much of what they see by being "for" smells very bad indeed. As bad as it may smell, they cannot countenance supporting an alternative, particularly for some if they are labouring under the misapprehension that they will be worse off as individuals if they did.
The situation again is not made any better by a simple binary win or lose voting system in FPTP. It is extremely backward and a disservice to true democracy which should work for the vast majority of people most of the time, surely.
And this is precisely why the whole issue of standards, morality and proberty in public life should be a massive issue people are made to care about. They work for us and use/misappropriate our money while doing it. They should be beyond reproach, rather than the snake oil salespeople we currently have to endure.
As an aside, It will be interesting the see the political direction Germany takes when Mutti finally shuffles off. A few weeks ago a CDU/Green coalition seemed likely, but now it seems the greens are forging ahead and could easily be the ones that pick and choose who they go into coalition with. The Greens political stance is pretty centerist and obviously majors on climate change and socially responsibility and reform as well as "making politics for society at large". As they aren't particularly left or right, it will be interesting to see if they can hoover up enough wavering voters who've had enough of the traditional parties and whether or not this will be somewhat of a blueprint of alternatives elsewhere.
