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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Dont be naive. No one likes "any of the choices presented" because people who gravitate to politics do so for personal power reasons and if they dont when they go in they do when they are in but it is all we have so you have to make a choice. If you dont like what you see then get involved.

if you have ever been involved in Politics you soon realise that ideals are just grand but reality is much nastier and harder.

if all you do is vote you have done something. Most folks who dont vote for the reasons you give end up doing nothing apart from droning in someones ear in a pub.

No. You don't have to make a choice. If I vote for someone I believe to be incompotent, whose views don't allign with mine, I have accomplished nothing - read - nothing by voting for them. Actually wait - I have. I have supported someone I don't wish to support. What a great way to devalue yourself. Your argument basically boils down to voting for the sake of it. For the pure act of it alone. If it accomplishes nothing, I would rather sit at home and rub one out.

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

so you say

Do go on.