Pretty much the same here. I won't vote for labour while they're 'new' - whil they're the party that initiated the gulf invasion etc.. I won't vote for the tories for various reasons including them too supporting that invasion.
I probably would vote for lib dems, just because they're not the other two. But I'm not even sure they run here, and if they do they have abslutely zero chance.
And yeah. I know I perhaps shouldn't but I can only really vote ideologically.
Y'know, if the SNP ran here I would vote for them above anyone else. Ignoring all the independence stuff, I actually like their politics. (I'm not saying I dislike the independence stuff, I'm in favour of it, just it doesn't apply here like (although I'd be in favour of regional autonomy everywhere, just a shame no one else is))))))))
What was my point? I'll probably do what mr. Moolock said. Sigh.
Haha. To get voted for you have to appeal to the middle classes because they're the ones with enough of a (perceived) stake to actually bother voting. That sums up why I am opposed to deomcracy and hints at why I would not get voted for.
I don't believe it's right that 'the majority' (whatever way you cut it) makes decisions for the rest. They will never act in the interests of the rest unless they coincide with their own.
And when you pull it apart, even the above isn't happening. I do not believe that our democracy causes the preferences of the majority to be realised effectively (not, as I say, that I would see that as a good thing anyway).
So we have the illusion of an illusion of a system that would work.
I'm not really sure.
Well, essentially I suppose I'm a communist. I believe it's possible to get to a position where the state becomes redundant and that that is desirable. It's how to get there that's the problem. I say I'm a communist rather than an anarchist because I don't believe we can get there 'naturally'. We need an intermediary stage where we're all deconditioned and everything is very heavily controlled.
But yeah, I'm absolutely unsure as to how we get there and whether it's even possible in the face of the weight of ideology/naturalisation/historicisation/conditioning we exist under, while the system that needs that stuff is still ongoing.
So, I suppose I'm saying we need some sort of fucking big shakeup followed by some heavily directed rebuilding, but yeah, I do not know what that form the shakeup would take.
Aye though, I really don't like democracy. I dislike the ... bullshit of it. I mean... take those celebrations of the anniversary of the abolution of slavery - everyone quite universally sees that as a good thing. But the only difference between then and now is that our slaves are invisible to us, on another continent. That's just an example. I hate how democracy hides things and pretends things and relies on all these illusions (opne of those illusions being that 'the market' can repair the above situation, for example). I feel dirty living in a world like that.
So I'd honestly rather have monarchy or theocracy than democracy. At least they're transparent.