You may have noticed there have been a lot of elections this year - and for better or worse, they have effected the wars that have been going on. We're leaving judgement out until winter, but the effects of these elections on conflict has been for the worse. So we'll have to talk about them. I'm not the only person whose noticed how 2024 has been the year of elections across the globe.
Honest Government Ad | Democracy Ad — Banned in India
A decisive knockout blow to reactionaries and wannabe fascists was not delivered by many of these votes. However, the replacement of some egregious governments, especially in the UK and the prospect of a new, explicitly left-wing Prime Minister in France, are a good development. However, the fact that so many people around the world have voted has been globally for the better for democracy and freedom. It at least puts to bed one particularly crazed argument broached by the satirical Honest Government ad, that right-wingers and various wannabe dictatorial types have, which is that people don't care about voting or democracy.
Some of the more strange things that happened this year were when Iran, Pakistan and Russia held votes, with the most disappointing and obviously faked "results" while the crazed government of Israel is avoiding having an election Then there's the fact that India is still lead by a man, in the person of Narendra Modi, who is still haunted by mentions of the riots and pogroms he oversaw 22 years ago. The first ex-president ever was convicted of a crime in the 248 year history of the United States of America.
Since I'll be talking about elections and politics in the rest of 2024, I'll talk about some other social and economic topics as well. These issues might have some political salience - they may also be personal opinions. Since I think it's relevant to talk about other stuff besides conflict for 2024 (I'll still mostly be talking about conflicts), I think it might be good to clear these matters as well.
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