By a roll?

The next episode of the never-ending election series is in full swing. Screenwriters are coming up with plots, directors and their assistants are organizing castings, and financial managers are putting together budgets to ensure everything that can guarantee success. We are used to this recurring spectacle and have gradually begun to not care that its many months of duration bring a lot of visual smog, waterfalls of meaningless statements, and election programs full of unrealistic promises. On top of that, there are mountains of bad taste, bizarreities, and nastiness. It takes a long time to recover from all of this, and then we have to face another onslaught, and then another.

But is there another way? Perhaps not, but if so, how? If representative democracy can be seen as a system which, despite all its imperfections, is one of the few that embodies tolerance, justice, and understanding in principle, it is not reasonable to allow any other form of social management. The fact that human society is, quite understandably and logically, made up of people sets limits that condemn many good ideas, procedures, and solutions to extinction before anyone even tries to apply them. And if some of them are implemented anyway, it inevitably ends in disaster. So is it necessary to tolerate all the anger, hatred, lying, slander, and arrogance that accompany the pre-election period? It seems so, but it is necessary not to slip into laxity and passivity at a time when it is possible to add a tiny grain, a mere fraction of personal courage, to one personally chosen side of the scales. It is necessary and right to go to the polls. To express your opinion. Then to feel and fully perceive your shared responsibility for developments in our society, in our country. And also to talk to others, listen to other opinions, learn to formulate your own views on the world and life, and not let yourself be fooled. Not even by another type of pastry.