Perhaps this question is impossible to answer or perhaps best answered after the election results.
But have you wondered who makes up the potential pap winning percentage? Let's say if the percentage is 60%, who are the people in this 60%? Who are the people who voted for them?
If this group of people are their friends and family, the wealthy and elite who don't want to rock the boat, other comfortable well-off people who feel their comfort is attributed to the pappies, new citizens who feel grateful and beholden, civil servants and rc members who feel obliged to vote them, etc, then we can perhaps say that the pap have got their calculations right and their voters are all genuine satisfied supporters.
But if there are people voting them who are suffering in life, yet still vote for them out of fear, apprehension over the alternative (that things will be even worse), ignorance of alternative, worship of the old guard 30 years ago, or whatever reason, should we then:
-- Make every effort to persuade them pre-election, since there is no point persuading those others with self interests tied to pap.
-- More importantly, after election, ignore any requests for help or just shrug and ask them to refer to their mp or the government, if you encounter them, even to the extent of cutting your charity donations or contributions.
This sounds harsh, but is this the only way to make sure that their winning % doesn't include voters like these?
But have you wondered who makes up the potential pap winning percentage? Let's say if the percentage is 60%, who are the people in this 60%? Who are the people who voted for them?
If this group of people are their friends and family, the wealthy and elite who don't want to rock the boat, other comfortable well-off people who feel their comfort is attributed to the pappies, new citizens who feel grateful and beholden, civil servants and rc members who feel obliged to vote them, etc, then we can perhaps say that the pap have got their calculations right and their voters are all genuine satisfied supporters.
But if there are people voting them who are suffering in life, yet still vote for them out of fear, apprehension over the alternative (that things will be even worse), ignorance of alternative, worship of the old guard 30 years ago, or whatever reason, should we then:
-- Make every effort to persuade them pre-election, since there is no point persuading those others with self interests tied to pap.
-- More importantly, after election, ignore any requests for help or just shrug and ask them to refer to their mp or the government, if you encounter them, even to the extent of cutting your charity donations or contributions.
This sounds harsh, but is this the only way to make sure that their winning % doesn't include voters like these?
