Media Overkill

As everyone else I will now take some time to reflect on the election to the European Parliament. I will not tell you to go vote (even if I would encourage you) mostly because you have the right to abstain and frankly, I didn't vote in the University election either so that would just be hypocritical. My reason for that was that I didn't acknowledge the right for them to say something and claim that I backed them up.Therefore by not voting I don't legitimate their existence. Being the devils advocate I wouldn't suggest using this as an excuse due to the fact that by voting on our own government you indirectly chose who to represent us in different EU questions and with that you legitimate it's existence. Of course this is my interpretation of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, a good book with very illustrative metaphors. So those who have the right is the 20% or so that doesn't vote in any elections at all. Of course I support the whole EU project so that everyone knows.

Also another subject related to this is the rise of the small one-question parties like the Pirate Party in Sweden with a strong voters base in young men. Read a blog from some 13-year old that complained that he couldn't vote and seemed political active and everything. Made a ludicrous statement hat he should be able to vote because he's a human and it is stated in the UN charter. I don't doubt that that kid know a lot, but I wouldn't trust everyone to know everything that is needed. I hardly trust those who that are 18 or many old in that case either (best would be if only I could vote so I can appoint myself King of Sweden bwhahah, ehum).

The paradox in this whole election is that 45% doesn't know that there is an election. I don't see how they could miss that, but hey, it's probably possible. But then again the media has been awfully silent and just now start to take it up. Compare it to the US election which probably 80% of the Swedish people knew about, but couldn't do a damn thing to go either direction. I actually thought this would happened back directly after the Obama election. The campaign begins one month before the election day while we followed the US for 1 year before the real election was. Come on, I know they call us the 51st state of America, but please we are the 13, 14 or 15 state of the European Union whatever someone else says. The media AND the politicians could show some freaking interest even if they don't appreciate it wholeheartedly. Although I will blame mostly the media for downright neglect it's civic duty to inform the people (the politicians on the other hand don't have that as silence sometimes works well for them and sometimes is of utmost importance).