I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. The right to vote and be cited for, I think, is the only reason some people are still allowed to vote; if not, there are many people who should not be allowed to vote anymore because they are sentimental, tribalist, and support the wrong candidate for the wrong reason—not because they are capable but because they are from their hometown, they speak the same language, or they follow the same religion or traditions, and for that reason they become a strong supporter of that candidate and are completely blind to how incapacitated that candidate is.
This week's prompt is something we see around us during every election: people standing behind the wrong candidate not because they do not see that the candidate cannot get the job done but because they are from their hometown or from their tribe, and for that reason they don't mind giving that candidate a mantle they cannot carry. We fail to understand that leading a country or a group of people, no matter how small, goes beyond one's tribe; it goes beyond religion; it goes beyond hometown; it just has to do with the candidate's capabilities and how they have presented themselves.
No doubt we cannot tell outright who the right candidate is or who will do better when given the mantle, but trust me, we all can tell from how both candidates talk when they are interviewed and how they present themselves before the media. Judging by all of these might be wrong in the end, but in most cases it gives us an edge on who the wrong and who the right candidate is. During the last presidential election in my country, we had two contestants. One presented himself well and gave a well-laid-out goal when asked and when interviewed, while the other, when asked, just proved that all that he wanted was for his name to be added to the list of those who have ruled this country, no goals, no plans, just "I WILL WIN."
In the end he did; tribalists and those who took bribe gave him their support even when clearly he was the wrong candidate, and today we are where we are when a leader with no goals takes over power. Instead of progress, the country experiences regression and backwardness, no progress at all. We can all agree that the current president has made things worse than he met them. Things might have been worse, but he came in and only made them even worse. This is exactly what happens when you let the wrong people into power. Many masses who support wrong candidates because of tribe, religion, and a little bribe forget that most of the time the bad effect of a wrong leader mostly affects the masses more than it affects the politicians, and some get to realize that when it is already too late.
For me, I think the only reason we don't tell people who to vote for outrightly is because that tampers with the fairness of the election, and also the human rights and freedom to vote and be voted for are one of the reasons we don't tell people who to vote for or even enforce on them to vote for who we want or think is the right candidate.
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