Voting day in the Netherlands…
I do not vote, even though I am not in principle against the parliamentary system (1500 days mandate without an option to recall or correct the person/party I have mandated makes it not good enough a system for me) So I do not delegate my power, still I am ready to influence parliament or the local council. Flyers where dropping as late as this morning in my letterbox of people asking my vote, who I never had heard of before; so next time we may congregate via Facebook or other social media to give some real meaning to democracy…. regularly over the whole period of four years to have a real exchange of opinions, to give guts to the idea of representation, instead of only mouthing the ‘D’ word during a few weeks before elections. There is more potential for participating in government in society than the casting of the traditional vote.
A typical example of a very last moment leaflet, which I found in my letter box on the election day itself. Before I have never ever received any information of this lady or party (the social-democrats who have been for many decades in power in most of the sub-sectors of the city of Amsterdam. The sub-sector representation system with political parties representing inhabitants at a neighbourhood level has only been introduced in the seventies of last century. It is yet another bureaucratic layer, yet another sector of people making some sort of a professional career. I can see no anvancement for democratic processes in such a system.
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