This assumes single-dimensional political repercussions, though, which i don’t personally consider a good analogy.
Imagine if they not only set temperature, but also humidity, average rainfall, barometric pressure, wind speed, intensity and frequency of sunflares and chancea of tornado. Imagine if the person handling the thermostat set it for millions of locations with different needs simultaneously.
Imagine if your expectations were likely to be missed by a longshot in all regards and furthermore, all the information you were given regarding any possible consequences was completely untrustworthy.
This is what politics feels like, to me, in latin america.
Hope i’m wrong and you guys have it better. Best of luck.
I will throw what is likely an unpopular opinion. I think what you are doing is responsible. If you don’t actually feel like any candidate is any worse than the others, in any way, in even the least way ; then I think you are doing the right thing. If you vote randomly, with no basis at all, doing eannny, meanny, minne, moe or such. Its way better to not vote. Now if you think any candidate is even the slightest bit worse for your country than the others ; then you should vote. I have much more respect for you deciding you have no basis to cast a ballot and choosing not to do so than some folks in my country who seeing and acknowledging a greater evil choose to not vote to punish the lesser evil for not being good enough. Your take as I read it is sensible.
This assumes single-dimensional political repercussions, though, which i don’t personally consider a good analogy.
Imagine if they not only set temperature, but also humidity, average rainfall, barometric pressure, wind speed, intensity and frequency of sunflares and chancea of tornado. Imagine if the person handling the thermostat set it for millions of locations with different needs simultaneously.
Imagine if your expectations were likely to be missed by a longshot in all regards and furthermore, all the information you were given regarding any possible consequences was completely untrustworthy.
This is what politics feels like, to me, in latin america.
Hope i’m wrong and you guys have it better. Best of luck.
I will throw what is likely an unpopular opinion. I think what you are doing is responsible. If you don’t actually feel like any candidate is any worse than the others, in any way, in even the least way ; then I think you are doing the right thing. If you vote randomly, with no basis at all, doing eannny, meanny, minne, moe or such. Its way better to not vote. Now if you think any candidate is even the slightest bit worse for your country than the others ; then you should vote. I have much more respect for you deciding you have no basis to cast a ballot and choosing not to do so than some folks in my country who seeing and acknowledging a greater evil choose to not vote to punish the lesser evil for not being good enough. Your take as I read it is sensible.