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| My vote, tomorrow – art work by Tarek Chemaly |
So after overlaying the elections’ advertisements, on as a lot protection as I can by monitoring social media, taking pictures from billboards, display taking pictures no matter comes on instagram, being nudged right here and there by pals and the checklist continues…. You wish to ask: Who am I voting for?
I do know the reply appears surprising.
I’m not voting.
Sure, I heard all of it already – I’m a defeatist, each vote counts, I’m being bribed, I’m within the gutter and pleased to stay right here, voting is an ethical stance, candidates usually are not like marriage they’re similar to public transport, and so forth….
Nonetheless, I’m not voting.
Curiously, no matter YOU stand is okay by me. You need the outdated bunch to come back again? Good for you. You need a few of these new “revolutionary” picks? Go vote for them. You not wish to be stolen by the outdated bunch however need the brand new bunch to steal you? Once more, go for it. I significantly suspended all judgement.
Nonetheless, I really feel the system to be so inherently damaged, as in irremediably damaged, voting is not going to convey any change regardless of who will get voted. Which makes my very own vote an act of hypocrisy. No solely do I not discover credible candidates, however the entire electoral legislation, the entire social setting, the entire political ambiance makes completely no sense at this level.
Folks mentioned, go and put a clean vote, since you do not like several candidate. No, it isn’t simply the candidates, it is the entire system. A clean vote means I agree with the system. I do not.
A number of politicians are working advertisements (which I can’t publish for private causes) whereby “voting for them will convey your a reimbursement”. As in – significantly? We all know the cash within the financial institution is not returning, we all know that the entire political class evaporated all possibilities of Lebanon being credible within the eyes of the worldwide neighborhood. Add to it the disaster of Ukraine the place all eyes have gone, and bingo – we aren’t sizzling on anybody’s checklist.
Lengthy story brief, I’m house tomorrow. And no, I’m not voting.
