For the last few weeks, all the little student politicians have been crawling out from under their cozy little rocks to spruik for whatever committee they're in on campus. Every vertical surface that was once bare is now covered in a hundred fliers for whatever student group. They've got their little helpers lined up at all the entrances and main footpaths, wearing their special t-shirts that'll be thrown away in a week and shoving their little coloured paper fliers into everyone's faces.
If you don't accept one of their fliers, they'll follow you for about 10 metres or so and harrangue you, and if they think you're a supporter of whatever other groups are running, you'd better look out...
What's this all for? The Student Representative Council. The definitive paper tiger. Now, a few years ago there may have been something to it, but the university and the government has effectively clipped it's claws and given it plastic dentures. Every year a new student group gets elected, and every year they do nothing.
There's socialist candidates, there are hardcore communist candidates, there's the environmentalists, the middle-of-the-roaders and there's the liberal (don't let the name fool you, they're really the right-wingers) candidates. You'd think that with all the different political leanings, there'd be some difference to their policies. Right? Wrong. Every single candidate and student group has the same list of changes they want to make, give or take one or two different details. They all dress the same, they all look the same, they all sound the same. They're all clones of the same political beast.
Whatever they claim they want to do, they do nothing. Absolutely nothing. Why? Because they don't want to run foul of the administrators et al, because they don't want the administration to give them a bad rep when they want to get a job. What was the original point of the SRC? To provide a voice for the students, to oppose anything the administration may want to implement that isn't in the best interests of the students.
All it is now is just another line in some baby political creature's curriculum vitae, for when they want to apply for whatever job they want in the real world. I can understand that, but they should have the common decency to get the fuck out of everyone else's face and not come on all holier than thou like they're on a personal campaign to make a difference.
You ask people who they voted for, and they'll either say they voted for the candidate with the most posters and shit everywhere, or they'll vote for the candidate whose flying monkey squad shitted them less. Now, that's a pretty fucking depressing state of affairs. Especially since around these parts that's pretty much the view of people when it comes to choosing the government.
in the end
they will choke on their own vomit
:lulz:
Whoever said that only 2nd rate geniuses get into politics was a hopeless optimist :lulz:
Hm. I guess a candidate who didn't advertise at all and had the campaign promise not to try to change a damned thing would have an edge, huh?
Meh, at our uni it usually just ends up with people voting for their friends.