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Originally Posted by Carth
Wouldn't that in effect simply be buying votes?
I get that it's more 'complicated' than that, but bottom line is people would vote for anyone just to get there bin emptied on time  |
No, those votes have already been bought and paid for, none of us may remember it personally but I bet there's members here who remember their mums telling them of a time when it was illegal for women to vote and their parents parents would have been able to tell tales of when the poor people weren't allowed to vote, how you could fight for the empire for 20 years and return to no say in how the country was run, a time of rotten boroughs like Dunny on the Wold with a census record of 20000 and an electoral roll of 3*, so no, its not buying votes, they were purchased through the blood, sweat and tears of our forefathers, its not our fault the politicians have so little about them, are so corrupt, so useless that the public want nothing to do with them, they used to sell hope, then they sold fear, mainly of foreigners and now they don't even try to hide the fact that they've got nothing, its their fault the public need encouragement to vote for the least worst option, we all get a hotdog no matter who we vote for, same as our bins still get emptied, it might just cost a little more for some.
*thanks to E Blackadder