Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.