Election & Values

I saw something I liked on the news last night.

I teach public administration and I dabble in some politics - only a little.  I'm generally not a very political person, which most people find surprising.  After all, I work in the department of Politics and Public Administration.

To make a very long story short, I studied politics in university and my roommates would always ask me for political opinions or analyze for them a political situation = ="  It just baffled me.  In any case......

We will have an election soon, but we don't have a democratic system.  Our "CEO", so to say, is chosen by a small group of 800 elite electors who are supposed to represent the rest of the 6 and something million of us non-elites.  Usually, we only get one candidate running, so by default, he wins.


This time, though, we have two candidates and both of them are legitimate candidates.  What I saw on the news last night was exactly the kind of stuff that I would see during election time in democracies: election platforms, policy positions, PR, interviews with news anchors......all of the interesting things I didn't know I miss since moving here.

I was really impressed.  It gave me hope.  Maybe, just maybe, we would have that kind of politics too.  If that ever happens, then I would really have something to talk about in lectures =)


Zooe