As we approach a general election with all that entails, I was thinking about how the political temperature could be dialled down and cool down some of the frantic nonsense that has made political discourse impossible over the last four or five years.
The way I see it is that the way someone votes should be somebodies own personal choice and the result of that person doing their own research and voting in line with their needs and with their own conscience.
Now you could never ban such a thing but I see it as similar to somebody who discusses how much money they give to charity, it stops being something that they wanted to do for somebody else and starts to be something which benefits themselves.
This is a particular problem with the left (probably because they are better online campaigners and tend to campaign on emotive issues) as they race onto every online platform to express that they have voted for the good guys and therefore they must be truly virtuous in the rest of their life. It grates unbelievably and to me it promotes the dumbing down of politics and perpetuates the herd culture where people don't think for themselves, they merely see some snappy slogan see something that seems fashionable and vote that way.
If political parties didn't know that people online would peddle their empty slogans quite so feverishly maybe they might concentrate on actually going into detail.
Maybe I am just prematurely middle aged but I find the whole thing just becomes unbearable in the run up to a general election (and afterwards if Labour don't win like 2015 protests).
The way I see it is that the way someone votes should be somebodies own personal choice and the result of that person doing their own research and voting in line with their needs and with their own conscience.
Now you could never ban such a thing but I see it as similar to somebody who discusses how much money they give to charity, it stops being something that they wanted to do for somebody else and starts to be something which benefits themselves.
This is a particular problem with the left (probably because they are better online campaigners and tend to campaign on emotive issues) as they race onto every online platform to express that they have voted for the good guys and therefore they must be truly virtuous in the rest of their life. It grates unbelievably and to me it promotes the dumbing down of politics and perpetuates the herd culture where people don't think for themselves, they merely see some snappy slogan see something that seems fashionable and vote that way.
If political parties didn't know that people online would peddle their empty slogans quite so feverishly maybe they might concentrate on actually going into detail.
Maybe I am just prematurely middle aged but I find the whole thing just becomes unbearable in the run up to a general election (and afterwards if Labour don't win like 2015 protests).
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire