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Pure calculation
On the next Sunday, many of us have to make a choice. As a result of a huge number of personal disputes about certain defendants in the election campaign, I formulated the following for myself. The main factor in this choice is dry and pure calculation. There is no need to fall in love with a particular candidate. You choose a person or, more precisely, a function that will make you well for your taxes, if possible. This function today is unlikely to change the situation compared to September 7th. This function should accumulate all your wishes for the mayor or to the head of the region, the region (highlight the right one yourself). This function should give you a maximum of convenience for life on the above fragment of space. And this function should not lie to you - for your voice or in anticipation of it. Does the current performer of this function suit you? Are his initiatives suitable for you? Just do not confuse a person who puts a new hospital into service with a person who built it. No need to confuse the allowance for a pension named after a particular governor-mayor with a allowance, which is put by law for you. Does it make sense to appeal to a person’s conscience in cases where he does not make decisions, and you know about it? Put the pros and cons on your notebook. You voted for this party for many years, will its representative be able to protect your interests in the current situation in the development situation and laying the track in the current conditions? Another important factor - only do not cunning with themselves - he, this person, are we elected? Will your candidate be able to say “no” to higher instances in the future post?
Enough to beware of uncomfortable questions. In the response of Alexei Navalny, Aider Muzhdabaev has such a passage: “Let me, taking this opportunity, ask you a question. Just one: "When can we all get acquainted with your" sharp "" unpleasant "questions to other candidates for mayor of Moscow?" It seems to me that Zhabaev asks unpleasant questions to the one for whom he is going to vote. Otherwise, asking these questions there is no reason. We already know everything about them, and do not consider them as our choice. Candidates or their fans who evade such questions and translate the conversation to other topics, naturally distort the cards. The unsuccessful words or actions of the candidate are not public, excuse me, a bunch that decent people should not notice. Fanatical supporters of some candidates call us to this. Yes, you went to hell! I want to know and be able to evaluate whether this factor is important for me or not. And you, trying to take the topic aside, admit that the act or speech was so -so, but it is now insignificant. For they themselves would talk about good themselves.
The severity of the choice today is clear to everyone, including the authorities, why it exerts pressure on some of its potential rivals. Presses and threatens with quite real consequences. This is also a zone of our responsibility. But an attempt to rest on the possible consequences - “if we do not choose it” - there is an emotional blackmail, mainly from the adherents. The candidates themselves, it seems, do not fall before that, although they understand the connection better. This is the prerogative of the authorities - to lie, evade questions, change the topic of conversation. Swimming, we know. Any, declaring its alternative to power, has no rights to this, how else does it differ from them?
I often hear, they say, not the time for uncomfortable questions and memories of what this person did and spoke a few years ago. Like, the election is a war. War. So it happened today. And, if they draw me into this war, you have to go with open eyes. Therefore - time for uncomfortable questions. All that the authorities could lay out the incriminating evidence about their rivals have already laid out and continue to lay out. Everything that pops up outside of officialdom is our property with you. And the task of a person who thinks is to evaluate whether the word “fool” from someone’s address in someone’s address prevents his heart. When this or that information is hidden, you act without taking into account this or these facts. And in the current situation, everything must be taken into account. For enough to vote with your heart. Only a pure calculation.
Often I hear about the absence of the figure of Havel. We are to blame, for we did not in demand by Gavel and Gavelya, let's define it like that. And now we pay for it. Perhaps they have already missed this stage. Therefore, we return to the purely calculation. Do we have another chance to say no to those who identify themselves with the country? Do our colleagues, neighbors and relatives have the right to a different opinion? Should we imagine comprehensively those for whom we are going to vote? In my opinion, they must, because if a person justifies our hopes, we honestly say: he hesitated in vain. And if it does not justify, then there will be no one to blame his mistakes on. All claims to power today, ultimately, are claims to themselves. Let's turn on the heads. And make a pure and dry calculation.
PS for the first time entering the United States many years ago was shocked by questions of the questionnaire, such as: "Are you in the organized crime group, are you going to trade in drugs?" and so on. Then it came. A person can answer these questions or the truth, or to lie. And, if he is convicted, then the fixed lie will be an aggravating circumstance in the court. Unknown issues are just needed so that later we can evaluate whether we were right or not.