Bag's Rants

Reading blogs makes you optimistic.

After the results came and all the politicians made their statements which show that they really are well for their party I was left with a big disappointment.

It seems that despite all the feedback given from the blogs and the people I talk to that most people have fallen into three camps.

1) The hard core voters who regularly vote for a party and only death with change that. The core voters for each party and strangely unaffected by any data at all. They don't see anything beyond the front pages of their favoured rag and the words of their favoured politicians whom they believe all the time.

2) Those that are unhappy with the status quo and would do something but have no real alternatives. The believe all parties are pretty much the same and look for a fresh new party to vote for. There are few around and none in their area. They they can vote for a party they don't believe in just to make a point or they don't vote. Either way a wrong message is given. the first is if you vote for another party then they see it as support for them. Then if you don't vote the hard core get their wish. You can't win.

3) Those that don't believe any party is looking after anyone but themselves and their group of swing voters. They see no point in voting at all.

Now after a while reading the blogs I was convinced that change was due. A message would be sent but what sort of message could be sent when the three candidates in a ward were Labour, Tory and Lib Dem. What could really be done when you have the choice between Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. Some had alternatives but I'm sure that most did not. I thought from the tone of the blogs and the people I met that something was going to happen.

Could it mean they are saving their candidates for the general elections? I do hope so.

As I've mentioned before, and had it thrown back at me, we are spilling the blood of our troops forcing democracy on foreigners who have no concept of our freedom yet we don't really have a decent political system or real freedom here. The last ten years have shattered our illusion of democracy when one man can cut a swathe through our rights and moral convictions and replace them with his own.

I also keep reading about how Socialism has failed, we have learnt another lesson but it looks to me that the general public in the UK are all tied up with what they are getting to such an extent that they actually believe all the things they are told. They are ill educated, by the state, yet believe the state is there to help them. If people actually learnt anything then Socialism would have died in the 50s for ever. Personally, I'm hoping that the split of it's power base in Scotland has done for Labour. Sadly, that leaves just one other party but so similar that it's impossible to tell them apart from their main policies. Reminds me of the Star Trek episode where the guys with the black and white faces were killing each other. One party is led by someone who is intend or removing our freedoms and taxing us to death, the other is..... Oh!. Ok, one party is lead by a smarmy git who wears a suit, rides roughshod over their own parties principles and talks the talk but fails to deliver, the other is..... Oh, OK. OK, the colours are different one is Red and the other is Blue, Oh, wait. I give up. I know, one has screwed over our country for the last 10 years and the other looks like he will do the same for the next 10.

I'm off to see the local drug lord where I can stock up with enough drugs to make the next 10 years pass in a haze. May as well stock up on weapons and ammo for the coming revolution while I am there. I wonder if the coming NA Alliance will invade here to introduce democracy? Will I be one of those cheering in the streets?

I suppose it could be worse. I still think that eventually something will push it's way through our conscience but I'm reminded of the Russians who thought that the USSR was great and look back to the cold war as the good old days. Does our species really have a chance?

Fingers crossed though. It seems like I am building up some Good Karma.

posted by Bag @ 1:39 pm