| binary solo said: And finally, if you don't want to compromise DON'T EFFING GO INTO POLITICS!! And for public servants, if you don't like the laws that you have to administer then don't go into public service, or move to a different public service that has laws to administer that you do like. You live in a country that follows the rule of law principle. Learn what that means FFS and stop trying to assert that your religious beliefs usurp the rule of law in the act of carrying out the laws of your country that have been constitutionally validated! |
Hundred times this. Politics is about defining a social contract in which people of different beliefs can live together. Compromise is the most important if not the only tool you have to achieve this. If you're not willing to compromise, then find a closed community that you agree with.
Anyway the issue is should a political party be able to force its members to vote a certain way. On one side yes. Otherwise what's the point of promoting the values of said political party. It would be fraud if a party promotes itself as pro-choice, then half its members vote anti abortion after the election. On the flipside, if a party's members can't agree on a subject, then it should not be a defining value of that party.
A democratic party should still be democratic itself, kinda weird when a democratic party is led by a dictator... Yet also confusing when you're trying to find out what a party stands for and all it can say is, well most of our members are pro-choice. It would be most honest.
Democracy is fucked anyway, 1 choice every 4 years on hundreds of issues. Yet voting on separate issues doesn't work either. Maybe in the future we can have a MMO called Sim Canada, and everyone can participate trying to balance the budget. Would be an interesting social experiment.
