Political Priorities

In a democracy the majority gets to rule. Political parties tend to skew that equality toward a select few groups, e.g. liberals, socialists, right-wing, left-wing, christian, muslim, secular, green, black, traditionalist, futurist.

However the modern democracy with the multi-party system makes choosing whom to vote for a harrowing experience. Basically there are only a few fundamental questions that parties can differentiate themselves from, most of them relate to distribution of wealth, which religious values should be held, and who to blame in case stuff goes wrong.

Most of the other issues aren't really issues. No party will say safety is not a priority for them. No party will say job creation is not important. No party will claim education is worthless. It's just a matter of priorities. In the end all parties aim to accomplish the same list of objectives. They only differ in the order in which they want to accomplish them. And of course, the higher up in the list, the more likely they will try for it.

Which means all the political campaigning and debating doesn't make a lick of sense. The standard argument goes that if an issue is not a top priority for a political party, then it must mean they are opposed to it... which is completely ludicrous. It's like claiming I hate children, because I don't have any.

And of course when all the election results are in, and the governments actually get formed, all the false arguments go away to make room for stifling consensus.

No wonder no one gets any work done in governments.