Really voting FOR something?

Quiz question.

Name a country in the world where the government is really popular and people would vote them back again any time soon.

Everywhere in the world at the moment the desire seems simply to get rid of whoever's in charge. Voting "the other lot" back into power follows, but is that what people really want? Just negative voting? Or expecting the change will bring something that will really be better?

The latter is really an interesting concept? The question follows "Who and How?".

Except for the really committed, things will not seem better - I will tell you that now. There is an increasing sense of Domesday scenario where the lives of all but a few will deteriorate for a generation. Whoever you elect.

The system is broken. The political system is failing most people around the world. The economic system has only benefitted the rich and powerful for a quarter of a century now, and all the phoney offerings are disappearing between the Scylla and Charybdis of imminent poverty and unrelievable debt.

Anyone who believes otherwise belongs to the rich and powerful, or is being delusional.

Today they had the city elections in Berlin. The FDP with their neoliberal economic nonsense (the same rubbish Thatcher imposed on the UK in the 1980s with the ridiculous levels of poverty and unemployment, oh, and personal debt - see also the GOP in the USA) were reduced to 1.9% of the vote. They were replaced in the Berlin city legislature by the Pirate Party, who want total freedom of information - and for the rest most of their agenda sounds like the FDP, you wonder why people were fooled by them. Excuse me if their economic thinking is a bit less Neanderthal, but from what I have heard, it isn't.

Germany is still stuck with the FDP as part of the government coalition, but apart from their constant demands for tax deductions with money that doesn't exist (all they will do is raise the government deficit massively), their voice is less and less obvious.

People voted for them in large numbers on promises on tax cuts which were never available. If they had the gumption, they would quit the coalition.

That though could lead to political oblivion. I would say that they won't be missed, but the likelihood is that the ideas would merely be adopted elsewhere, as unworkable as they are.

You might want to vote for those ideas as a delusional alternative. The fact remains, in the real world that is what they remain. Voting for something means voting for something positive that will work for the benefit of everyone - the chances of that happening again in my lifetime is about as likely as an increase in the number of tigers living in the wild on this planet over the next 50 years - as close to zero percent as it gets!