blackstone code

Chapter 1185 The idea is inconsistent
On weekends, polling stations appeared in some squares in Sabine City, and many people came early in the morning and started queuing.

Federal people, especially the middle and lower classes of federal society, may be the most enthusiastic and devoted group of people in the world to political elections, especially general elections.

Every election year, various activities belonging to voters have become the most lively and common activities in the Federation.

Even capitalists will relax their demands on workers at this moment, and they can even stop work on non-weekends to participate in various election activities.

Some became friends because they voted for the same candidate, and some friends and even family members fought because they supported different candidates.

This is actually very amazing, and it is difficult for people from other countries to imagine.

Perhaps only federal people feel this way, because from city councilors to the president, they are all elected through voters and ballots.

They think so.

Maybe the sense of participation is not so strong when the president is elected, but the sense of participation is very strong when the city councilor and mayor are elected.

Each of their votes will determine whether a politician has a chance to realize his ambitions and political ideas. Who can become the next "big man" is entirely up to them.

This is actually a very complicated system, and people's deep participation in it satisfies their desire to participate in big events from the perspective of small people.

Everyone will have a heroic dream, and everyone will think that their vote will be the key vote.

Looking at the entire federal social system, there are actually many similar things, so that some ordinary people seem to have the opportunity to decide the fate of great people at certain times—at least it seems that way.

No society is absolutely fair and just, and the same is true for the federal society. In this country that advocates long live freedom, people's lives may not be satisfactory and happy.

They face all kinds of problems and troubles in their lives.

Small houses, poor financial situation, worrying job prospects, there are too many things to torture them.

They also need to vent, and they also need to be satisfied, otherwise they will explode like a bomb under the continuous accumulation of pressure.

Politicians know it, and so do capitalists.

So there are all kinds of cheap food to satisfy their desire for food-many high-starch, high-oil and high-sugar foods in supermarkets are ridiculously cheap!

Just like popcorn, the price of those sweet and greasy things is cheaper than people buying corn and various materials to make by themselves.

Some people say that this is an industrial miracle. Large-scale production and industrial supply chains have reduced costs, but in fact it is only a part of the entire "plan".

There are also all kinds of TV dramas about feces, urine and fart, coupled with almost unnecessary sweet drinks and cheap food with high sugar and oil.

A family only needs to spend two or three yuan to enjoy a whole night of satisfaction!
It doesn't have to be happy, but it must be satisfying!
Lying on the couch, watching free TV with purchase of TV programs or free content services for a certain period of time when buying TV, and stuffing those satisfying things into your mouth.

They laugh loudly and sometimes cry, they are poor, but what they lack most is empathy, which may be the only thing they are rich in.

Food and simple entertainment allow them to forget some troubles and anger, coupled with elements such as "tolerance" and "stalwart" in the mainstream media, people are no longer so easily angry.

If these are just the most superficial way to meet the physical and emotional needs of the people at the bottom of society, then giving them the right to vote will give them great satisfaction from the psychological, spiritual and even soul levels!

Contentment brings stability, that's the magic formula.

When there is a bad politician in the Commonwealth, say the previous president.

Voters who "voted" to bring the former president to power will not make too much trouble, because this is their choice, they will only apologize to the people around them in embarrassment, telling them that they "missed at the moment" and chose the wrong person.

They will never vote for this idiot next time if given the chance.

These words come out of their mouths as if if they really don't vote, everything will happen as they imagined.

And those voters who didn't vote for the previous president will point the noses of colleagues, friends, and even family members on the opposite political side like a huge victory, saying how excited they were when they voted, and how excited they are now. madness.

It seems like there are regular marches on anything in the federation, vegans, feminists, working class.

But few people often launch demonstrations as "voters", which is amazing.

This is the federation's rules of the game. Everyone is deeply involved in the rules and becomes a part of the rules.

Just like this morning!
After six o'clock, these people who probably have to get up after 07:30 at least for a year have already gotten up a little after six o'clock.

Not only did they get up, but they also came to the square with breakfast and waited in line to vote.

At eight o'clock, the polling station began to work, and policemen with guns stood guard around the polling station. If it was an election year, there might be militias in some swing states.

Some robbed stores, some robbed banks, and of course some robbed polling stations.

"Hey, who are you going to choose?"

A young boy saw an equally young girl in line and walked over.

The boy scratched his hair, feeling a little shy. He has liked this girl for a long time, and the two of them had been alone before, and they had almost become boyfriend and girlfriend. It was just that someone finally pointed out this relationship.

The girl looked at the boy's eyes full of sweetness.

The two were also high school classmates. After graduating from high school, they started working part-time. The boy did some very hard work in a factory.

Because I am young, I am willing to endure hardships. Although the work is very tiring, I can live a decent life.

Girls work as waiters in a restaurant, and the wages are relatively low. The waiters in restaurants are often paid very low wages. They don't work ten to twelve hours a day like workers in factories.

Restaurant owners often pay their waiters minimum hourly wages for a full day of business, and if they want more, they have to find a way to earn tips.

The current social situation... Obviously, it is not so easy to earn tips.

But no matter how exhausting life is, they will be together as long as they have time.

Watching TV, watching movies, or going out shopping, they are a very sweet couple in people's eyes, and they are also a couple who are bound to get married.

The girl thought for a while, "I'm going to choose Catherine and...", she said a few more people's names.

Sabine City is a small city. According to the relevant regulations in the federal election law, the number of city councilors will be determined according to the total population of a city.

Some small places may only have a few city councilors, but there are also teams of hundreds of councilors in big cities like Bupain.

There have always been voices suggesting reforms to the city councilor system. For example, instead of deciding how many councilors there are based on the total population, it can be determined according to the city's administrative district planning.

But this touched the interests of many city councilors, even the interests of the party, so the reform has not been able to pass.

According to the current method, a total of eight city councilors will be born in Sabine City, but nearly 20 people will participate in the election, and two-thirds of them can only accompany them.

The boy frowned after hearing the girls' names, "They are all people who support education reform."

The girl nodded, "Don't you care about education reform?"

"If the education reform can come earlier, maybe we can also go to college, and then we can have a higher starting point and a better life."

"Although we can't catch up..." The girl blushed even more, "But our children can catch up. This is very important to us and to them."

The boy did not understand the keyword "our children" in the girl's words. His attention was always on education reform, and he put forward his own different views.

"Education reform is really important, but I think the social security system and the opportunity to have more jobs is more important to us now."

"I heard that Mr. President once planned to reduce the 30-year pension insurance payment period to 20 years. Do you know what this means?"

Without waiting for the girl to answer, the boy expressed his thoughts, "This means that we can save ten years of expenses and enjoy the benefits that others have paid for for 30 years in the past."

"We could even try to move up the gears, but there's a lot of resistance right now, and if we can make more politicians in Congress feel our power, maybe this thing will work while we're alive."

The boy's choice is different from the girl's, and the girl looked at him in disbelief, "I thought your choice would be the same as mine..."

The boy frowned, "Education reform is too far away, even for children born this year, especially for us."

"A policy that will benefit us in more than ten years or even 20 years is far less important than changing it now!"

The two started arguing about it, and everyone had their own ideas and reasons. In the end, the girl looked at the boy with a look of disappointment, "Let's break up, although we haven't really started yet, it's over!"

Watching the girl change to another line and the boy began to question whether he had done something wrong, a man in his 30s standing in front turned and looked at him.

With a smile on his face, "You're doing right, young man!"

"If those people can change the current working environment and give us more opportunities for promotion, maybe we can give our children higher education without education reform!"

The boy clenched his fists, he didn't think he was wrong.

(End of this chapter)