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Notes from Mercurius’s Desk: Today there shall be two points to add to my list/series. Also, I thought it would be cute and nifty to add a little subheading before I went into my main points titled “Notes from Mercurius’s Desk.” Those are all the notes on his desk for now.
4-Choosing Leaders
How does one choose a leader? There’s a couple ways, actually. You could vote for your friends, and there certainly isn’t any shame in that. In fact, save yourself the friendship (and the awkwardness, should they find out you voted against them), so vote for your friends. For those that don’t have friends running as candidates, or those that don’t have any friends at all and are forever alone, you should vote based on your logic and rationale.
(Above) The face of yet another demographic
Now, from personal experience, I know it can be rather dangerous to give people the liberty and duty of thinking on their own common sense. Why? Because some of us simply don’t have it. The voting population splits yet again here: Those that have common sense and those that don’t. If you do have common sense, read on. If not, then skip to the next paragraph (or not, I don’t know how much common sense you might possess to follow instructions such as these.) Those that have common sense should seek certain values in a leader. Humans have, for their entire existence, needed good leaders to organize them and galvanize them to follow through with a community’s larger plans. In order to aid in the process of assembling and moving people, leaders have presented traits such as persuasion, charisma, compassion, righteousness, justice, and effective communication skills. Big polysyllabic words also somehow seem to convince people you know what you’re talking about. The basic point here is that you should choose a leader you know has plans for the future, has a means to carry through with those plans, and is willing to work with everyone, not just their personal friends, to usher in an era of greater good.
Now for those of us that don’t have common sense, society has given us something called “advertisement”, and it works wonderfully. You don’t even have to think to like things! If you are unsure on who to vote for and do not possess the innate ability of rationalizing, then head on over to a candidate’s presentation. Just vote for the one whose you thought looked all pretty and stuff. Moving onward now…
5-Inter-Partisan Relations
There’s not much to say here, to be honest. Basically, a government can be fully functional with separate political parties, as long as mediation exists. No bipartisan government will ever shake itself of those that adhere and cling strongly to the heart of their respective political parties. We call those people “extremists” although the term might sound a bit negative. Extremists aren’t necessarily those that take extreme measures but rather those that lie in the extremities of a political spectrum. Those that lie in the middle can be referred to as “moderates”. Moderates are extremely helpful when seeking compromise between extremists (see what I did there). For it all to function, there should be some of each.
What shouldn’t happen is unnecessary negative argument between the two parties. Humans can’t help but argue over what they disagree on, but we all have to remember this: there are people that simply aren’t loyal to the nation no matter where they stand. They might be in either party, but what we should not do is accuse the entire opposite party of being treasonous. We must find a way to scout out and make use of all out talents to pool them together and form a winning, effective community.
Until next time,
--Mercurius
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