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Originally posted by Stratos:
I take it you don't like Liberals then, Melcheor? 
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I don't like politicians in general. They are out to get votes. Vote winning policies are all too often damaging for society, they just sound good. I am now coming to the end of an education system which has become progressively more rediculous in terms of examinations and what we are taught, where the bad are rewarded and the good are barely acknowledged. Citizenship and Personal and Social Education sound good to voters, but as one who has been taught it I can tell you its all a load of bull s**t. Work I have done in General Studies has gone into the bin at the end of lessons, I have learnt German until the age of 16, only to forget it all because the international language is, rightly or wrongly, english, and hence i have no use for German. I have been taught in classes with brain damaged children in the name of "inclusion" when all it accomplishes is the dissruption of my education and the alienation of the disabled kids. To teach them seperately would be segregation and hence does not win votes.
I am learning to drive, but in order to do this I must learn to play a computer game called "hazard perception" which has about as much relevance to driving as Icewind Dale. Again, a political idea aimed at making newly qualified drivers safer. It doesn't work though.
My experience of politics is based on how it has affected me, the beaurocracy and the glorification of what is essentially a popularity contest, has left me with a sour taste and a distrust for politicians. I'm not saying I've been hard done by, because in the scheeme of things, I havn't. It has just left me with the opinion that those who want power are exactly the people who shouldn't have it. No, I dont like liberals, but that's probably because most of my life has been with a labour government in power (even if its not that liberal). I probably wouldn't like a conservative government any more. I don't think its 'cause I don't have a heart...