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politicians are always looking for the majority vote to get what they want, and this is why news is so twisted sometimes… to get everyone believing it from their point of view so they get what they want
because its always what the majority wants is what happens
if the majority of people were still disagreeing with g20, drastic action would have been taken by now. But in reality, although bigged up by the media, only a minority in scale to the rest are actively disagreeing with the events of g20 protest
I’m not entirely sure that’s true. Surveys would suggest that the majority of the population would support capital punishment in extreme cases. However it would be political suicide for the main parties to suggest reinstating the death penalty.
I think the “voice of the majority” actually changes very little as a political voice. It’s individuals that push things, apart from lynch-mob style hate campaigns the mass-majority tend to whinge but do little about it, and therefore don’t have as big an impact as people might think.
And also, I think that when you have 2 million on the streets for the Iraq war (a huge percentage of the adult population) then you know the majority are against it, yet it didn’t change anything.
At the moment there is little we can do in terms of nationalised or global immediate change, hence my repeated commitment to striving for change within communities.
For example, my list of effective and pointless:
Want climate change?
How about setting up better alternative transport in your area, either through lobbying or even practical activism, to create an incentive for people to ditch the car? People are not going to use public transport whilst it is so temperamental and expensive, so a realistic way to change mindsets would be to create realistic and feasible alternatives. Set up recycling centres or offer a service to sort recycling, drop round leaflets, set up a localised “freecycle” system where people exchange unwanted possessions instead of chucking them.
Alternatively, you could always go break into a school, then storm a power plant with the ambition of switching the entire thing off, pissing off the local population and spending more money and energy restarting the thing, making the general consensus from the local population that you’ve done more harm than good, and thus rendering the entire activity entirely counter-productive. Sure, you might get a buzz from it and enjoy being amongst the “right-on” hippies, but at the end of the day so-and-so from next door is still gonna leave all her lights on for no reason then use that 4×4 to drive down the street.
Want a more equal society?
Get involved with local community action – youth work, alternative opporunities, support groups and lobbying groups for unemployment, work with local businesses to create jobs in the community, encourage empathy and use a united community to support political change.
Don’t go down to London for your one day a year and put a window through. Basically to cut it short much for the same reasons as above, it’s counter-productive and does little to gain mass-support.
