What is it about elections that turns everyone into social political scientists? What makes the average joe blogs think that they could run the country better than the primary main electoral candidates that are actually running to become leader?

I'm not saying that average people couldn't actually do a better job than the main people, (hell the only real requirement you need to become a Politician in Australia is to have been born here and finished grade 12. Other than that, anyone can become a politician.)

It seems that whenever there is a election, everyone suddenly has their own opinion about which political party is better and which one should get into power. Admittedly media outlets don't help specially with various tv and radio personalities getting their own views out there as well.

Personally, I'm not really sure which party is better than the other. Are they all that different to be honest? Sure there is the obvious differences depending on who you vote for, but a lot of people will either vote for what they know, or people will vote for a change to see if the other party can do any different.

I think it's more a case of not voting in whoever is the better party/person, but more so keeping the wrong person/party out of power.

There is of course the option of just voting for good ol' Mickey Mouse. I hear he usually does pretty well in these sorts of things. That said, I don't think that he'd be able to be taken to seriously. Imagine in parliment, he gets up to give his opening address and he has to tell Pluto to get down, and Minnie is in the public gallery egging him on. I dread to think what seat Goofy would get, or if Donald would be the leader of the opposition.

All that said, it could be made that most of the people in parliment now are just cartoon characters now anyway, so we could already be there.

Personally I figure if I have to goto some school/church hall, bypass all the people handing out printouts telling me how to vote, wait in line to tell the person with the book my full name and address. Then get two pieces of paper and go and vote in some cardboardy thingy I figure I may as well make it count. It may do bugger all in the grand scheme of things, but at least that way when whoever wins gets into power I can either whinge accordingly or be lambasted for making the wrong choice.

Plus it also allows me to have some sort of vague authority to winge if I so want to.

Cheers
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