Elections

[celamity]

Our elections were on Sunday/Monday. The party I have voted for for the past 16 years did far, far worse than expected.

I read the newspapers yesterday and saw everyone on the losing side of politics throwing blame around, and a lot of them blaming the leader for the party I vote for because he did not make tactical promises about who the party would cooperate with, but instead stuck to his guns about what actually mattered to him and those he represented.

The leader of the party I vote for resigned due to the election results. He also lost his seat in parliament.

I have now signed up to be a member of that party.

Comments

[celamity.livejournal.com]

They haven't been a large party since before I was born - put it this way: I've always voted with the hope of getting decent representation in the parliament, never with the hope of their getting into the government.
One of their main causes is environment, and I think that was kind of drowned out by other things this year. There seems to be a prevailing mentality that every argument that climate change might not be 100% caused by humans means that protecting the environment doesn't matter. Also, a number of people voted tactically for other parties in the hopes of causing/preventing certain possible government constellations - or so the internets tells me (heck, in the last election, my party benefited from that effect, but they still weren't expected to drop this much).
I saw something today suggesting that the voting public might be polarizing into red and blue, and those two poles are slowly bleeding the center position dry.