The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.
I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.