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cdybedahlThis coming Sunday, we have a national election. For the first time in a few elections, I feel motivated to vote.
The problem is, I have to vote for someone.
I'd much, much rather have the option of voting against someone. Because the truth is, just about all the parties suck. It varies a little on exactly in which way and how hard, but at the end of the day they all suck. Sometimes I'm tempted to do like a friend of mine, who votes for a party on the extreme left (KPML(r), for those of you who happen to know about Swedish politics) on the theory that whoever ends up governing it was not her fault. Even the party where my wife used to be active sucks. In theory, they claim to protect the workers. In practice, they don't. They're a bit like the new kind of Labour in the UK, there. And they joined forces with their worst enemies (kind of like Labour and the Tories cooperating) to perpetrate the one single thing that pissed me off the worst in the past four years: privatizing Stockholm's commuter trains. Which ended up costing 270 million more than it would have if they'd left it alone, while providing far worse service.
So I don't really want to vote for anyone. I want to vote against the Christian party, because while the others are cretinous clods, they are a close approximation of evil.
Unfortunately I only have a "for" vote.
The problem is, I have to vote for someone.
I'd much, much rather have the option of voting against someone. Because the truth is, just about all the parties suck. It varies a little on exactly in which way and how hard, but at the end of the day they all suck. Sometimes I'm tempted to do like a friend of mine, who votes for a party on the extreme left (KPML(r), for those of you who happen to know about Swedish politics) on the theory that whoever ends up governing it was not her fault. Even the party where my wife used to be active sucks. In theory, they claim to protect the workers. In practice, they don't. They're a bit like the new kind of Labour in the UK, there. And they joined forces with their worst enemies (kind of like Labour and the Tories cooperating) to perpetrate the one single thing that pissed me off the worst in the past four years: privatizing Stockholm's commuter trains. Which ended up costing 270 million more than it would have if they'd left it alone, while providing far worse service.
So I don't really want to vote for anyone. I want to vote against the Christian party, because while the others are cretinous clods, they are a close approximation of evil.
Unfortunately I only have a "for" vote.
