I used to be a huge liberal election nerd. I would get so excited every time there was an election and love how every news story was about capital P Politics.

But now I'm completely disillusioned with bourgeois electoralism. The last general election in my country provided a result that was as good as you could ever realistically hope it to be, what is considered the right wing collapsed and suffered a humiliating defeat. Instead people voted for what is considered left wing parties, many of whom had campaign promises like taking climate change seriously, ending child poverty and improving welfare services. A succdem government was rushed into office with one of the most decisive majorities behind it in modern times.

And then what happened? The promises of handling climate change ended in more money for highway construction and a climate plan consisting "we have to become carbon neutral in ten years so we really don't have to do anything for the first eight years" and the climate minister, who has the brain of a golden retriever, doing a "fun" YouTube video about saving the climate by adding a little grated carrots to your meatballs. The foreign minister is a nonce who is best known for having sexual relations to a ninth grader when he was old enough to be her father under a questionable level of consent, and then having his friends in the party leadership make the case disappear. Thus far ending child poverty has resulted in a tiny temporary benefit to as few families as possible and a commission tasked with solving the problem without spending any money, without making the benefits system any less racist and without removing any of the "incentives" making unemployed people desperate to work. The improvement of welfare services has been forgotten and instead they have turned the racism and police state dials to eleven, proving themselves to be at least as bad as the previous right-wing government would have been if they had been allowed to stay in office.

Bourgeois electoralism doesn't work. It can't work. All it can do is to manufacture consent for an increasingly fascist dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

I used to be excited when they put up election posters. Now they have just put up posters for the upcoming local elections and seeing them just makes me angry and fills me with disgust towards the people on the posters. I'll probably go vote for the least horrible option out of sheer habit but I won't spend election night glued to the screen as I used to, hoping the result would somehow lead to a materially better world.