Don't eat the yellow snow

Well the weather outside is frightful...

Hey-ho campers, we have reached that time of year again. That epic time when people in costume stalk the neighborhood, knocking on doors, decorations are hung to terrify the life out of little kids and outrageous amounts of TV courage are dedicated to terrifying and disgusting programming.

I of course refer to election time.

Nothing scares me more, or makes me sicker to my stomach.

Consider this, every one of the election posters I have seen stuck to the streetlights and stobie poles would look equally at home with the title "Have you seen this child sex offender?" written under it.

Is there a rule that says politicians have to put on their seediest and most disturbing smile for their campaign photos? Urgh!

The whole election thing just puts me off. I recall a quote by Billy Connolly;

"The desire to become a politician should bar you for life for ever becoming one."

True story. Most of them just look creepy.

But I digress. As always, I have to say that whoever winds up getting voted in, half of the population will still whinge about it, so ultimately, it doesn't matter.

This is where people jump up on their soapbox and say "That's a pathetic attitude to have! How can you not care about your country in that way! You're a fucking communist!"

Well, no, I'm not a communist, but look at it this way,

(I'm going to make some sweeping generalities for the sake of statistics)

Let's say that of the people who vote, the vote is split fairly evenly between the two major parties (I know that there are more than two parties, but lets face it; Not going to happen. Ever)
So let's say for the sake of completeness, that 45% of the vote goes Liberal, 45% goes Labor and 10% flip flops in the middle somewhere.

We know that the Diehard Labor voters and the Diehard Liberal voters cancel each other out, so the election goes to whoever flops that little bit extra. So with the deciding vote in the hands of that 10%, whoever gets in, at LEAST 45% of the voters will be pissed.

And I still maintain that noone gets the top job without having the best interests of the country at heart. Sure, they may be a little misguided, but overall, our country is still gonna keep ticking along.


Urgh, that post was overly political, I'm going to shower to wash the sticky off,

The more you know.

posted by Nick @ 10/24/2007 02:56:00 PM Comments: 0