When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.
When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.
The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.
You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.