heavily offtopic and long post, I'm sorry - please notify me if it causes any kind of
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You are right Xanadunow, but that statement is like a black box: no matter how many times you hear it, you can't change it. The vote is cool in theory, but in reality, you decide nothing!
I'm gonna put the case of my country, is the only one case I can see by first hand:
Left wing accuses right wing everytime a corrupt group inside the army, the state, or an imaginary world, attacks them. Also when syndicate workers stop receiving their extraordinary high pensions earn by corrupt means.
Right wing accuses left wing for sympathize with terrorist groups, and for their fake "food for everyone" populist promises. Only that.
While left and right are busy fighting, a terrorist group (FARC), under the label of "rebel", "guerrilla", "fighters for popular freedom" (lol) or "comunist", blow away small towns, keep hostage thousands of people for +12 years, and get ridiculously rich thanks to the drug traffic.
And no, they don't give poor people food or freedom. They kill them, either for "helping the state" or as "colateral damage". That's what they say!
A counter-guerrilla group, called autodefensas or paramilitary, was created legally by the state to aid Army to stopping FARC. Sadly, autodefensas discovered that drug traffic is a cool bussiness
, so they converted into another terrorist group. And they are good friends with FARC too.
Colombian Army keeps fighting them heroically, and they do so since 50 years ago. The terrorists are weak now, so is true that the country is a lot safer.
Ok, safe for me and the fortunate citizens who live comfortably far from the conflict zones. For the foreign visitors is very safe too.
Offcouse, if you are a stupid hippie who loves to drive away from the main cities to explore the conflict zones, please don't give back feedback about the country.
Is not safe for the Army soldiers, who have enough balls to fight.
While everything of this occur, cheap politicians make their way into the senate and congress, saying what people want to hear after watching TV news program. When they reach the chair, steal everything they can, then eject.
That gives more fake awards to the terrorist group FARC, because as they said, "they fight against the corrupt goverment, that increases the poverty", remember that? Even a hippie group at Europe started shelling t-shirts to support them
And while I write this post, my stupid neighbour vote by those cheap politicans, while he sits at his sofa, watching Mr. And Ms. Smith with his brand new Blu-Ray home theater, laughing by how Colombia is depicted as a jungle plenty of naked natives, drug patrons with mexican accent (lol!), and anti-aircraft bunkers witout water or electricity.
Thanks to corrupt goverments, terrorist groups and bad action movies, the unemployment keeps rising, and most important, rich become richer, and poor people dies.
Fortunetly, I'm lucky enough to spend my time eating and doing nothing.
That is my best -non electronic- offtopic finding