There are only some days left before we know who the next president in the United States will be.
I will not judge who it best. It is not my country. Of course I think of the environment, but I am a Dane so I will focus where I can make a difference. I pay extra for power made on wind energy. My facemask which I have to wear during the pandemic is reusable and there are some other things, I do. But then again. I do my part here in Denmark and I vote for politicians who have the climate in their agenda and I watch ready to punish them at the next election if they do not put actions behind their fine words.
When we Danes vote, it is almost 80 percent and sometime even more who votes. Why do we vote? For my part I have to say that the reason is that I got interested in a girl who were into politics and the only way to have sex with her was to go to the meetings and parties the political youth organizations held.
I know for large part of the people active in politics, it was the parties more than the wish to change society which sold the message to be something for your country.
However I am a bit worried. First in relationship with the Metoo campaign, words are out to ban alcohol at the political youth organizations. What would happen if young people never learned about Adam Smith and liberalism, what if young people never heard about Karl Marx and socialism. Would they not become uninterested? I believe so. The parties mean more than you think. The sexual relationships result in important political alliances to be used later in later. Either as a favor for someone you hold dear or a pressure point when people need to know that you have something on them. That is basically how Danish politics is done. We are a small country where people know each other and sometime you are surprised how people who seem far from each other has something in common from the past.
My past in politics did not only result in good sex. It also told me how to be persevering, it told me to listen to the ideas and visions presented because I had to stay during the meetings in order to meet the requirements to attend the parties.
Short to say. The bottle learned me how to be a responsible voter and keep an interest in politics.
Maybe the United States should chose the same path for their young people. It seems to me that so few actually care for the future of their country and that I feel a shame.