The Personal Failure Vote

The vote is personal despite experts’ assertion that it is like pizza slices: the women’s vote, black women’s vote, immigrant, Jewish, Muslim, conservative, liberal, southern states, Wall Street or farmers’ vote.

What cannot be quantified is the personal failure vote. What has happened or is happening in our lives largely determines how we vote. Passing the buck, apportioning blame is the normal escape route. We accuse certain structures for our failure. We blame someone we see on the street because she represents the group responsible for our failure.

Many things are responsible for our failure in life. One of them is taking the status quo for granted, that things will always be this way, even when rivers and animals act in a strange way because of climate change. When the going is good, we don’t do an audit and say what if?

Politicians that plan ahead do not vote on personal failure. Savid Javid, a U.K government minister is such a man. Britain is in limbo right now because Boris Johnson resigned, so the Conservative Party is looking for a replacement prime minister.

Liz Truss and Rish Sunak are running for the position. Savid Javid has endorsed Liz Truss as the best candidate for the job. Javid is a master planner. He publicly does not endorse Rishi Sunak to fend off the accusation that he has been grooming him to be prime minister, with two positions that control the country’s money.

The personal failure vote is a wasted vote. Understanding structures like political parties leads to a more effective vote.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.