Hey Toni,
Yes I voted, I even took the time online to look at many parties and their policies.
I voted Hanson then Liberals, Greens and Labor last.
One vote won't change the status quo..

//Yes I voted, I even took the time online to look at many parties and their policies.
I voted Hanson then Liberals, Greens and Labor last.//

Then why are you whining about the parties WE choose for you, when it's YOU doing the choosing? You get to have your say, just like the rest of us, and sometimes you end up with a result you don't like, just like the rest of us. It's called democracy, and as Churchill pointed out, it's the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried.

Presumably you'd be happier with the Ankh-Morporkian 'One Man, One Vote' system of democracy: where there is one Man, and he gets the one Vote. But then what happens if the Man with the Vote turns out to not Vote the way you like?

Probably best to leave dictatorships for crappy third world countries without proper sanitation. I don't like the leaders YOU choose for me either, but I'd still rather have the great unwashed doing the voting than a dictator.

//One vote won't change the status quo..//

But zero votes would... suppose they gave an election and nobody came. Sorry, just some idle musing...

It is possible for one vote to swing a seat, but it's very unlikely. However, the sum of a multitude of 'one votes' is what really matters. I find it interesting when people argue that democracy is a sham because their vote doesn't matter anyway, and still make the effort to cast a formal vote. If their vote doesn't matter, why bother voting? And if it does matter, why bother bleating on about it not mattering? Just make up your bloody mind.

Hey Toni,
You missed my whole point...
I don't have a problem accepting what the community chooses.
That was in fact the argument I was making.

If anything at all I get frustrated that the news is so full of it that a lot of people are either uninformed or even worse misinformed, but this is only because I often have to share a different side of the story the media isn't informing us of.

On that note though, sharing a side of a story the media isn't telling us about is probably where my comments are most worthwhile.

I expect you'll certainly disagree on the assertion my comments are worthwhile, as you would... Lol