Elections are a game

So there is a new game that is gaining popularity around me. The game of student politics. The reason, I must, unfortunately call this a game, is because, its nothing more than a glorified exercise in popularity attainment, and doesn’t really have any bearing on… well anything at all. 

The presidents in the last two years of college, have done nothing, and don’t really ever intend to do anything, what gets done, does so, almost inspite of the very strong forces of ‘change’ arrayed, sometimes, you wonder against or for it… or whether they’re arrayed at all.

The constitution of our college is such, that what the ignorant are lead to believe is a representative union of students, is merely a glorified society, in which the Staff advisor non the less holds veto. So if anything truly aggravating were to be done, to the students or the staff, quite frankly, it would be an extra-constitutional matter for the union to even take it up.

None the less each year, the members of the union get together, and try to get the college involved in voting for someone or the other. Of course the vast majority of the older members of college stay away from the event. But the freshers, yet to be disillusioned, happily buy what they’re told about the Union, and its role in college life. 

It’s quite a lot of fun, to watch the same people make the same promises that have been made for the last three years, with the same vehemence that they were made when I first joined college. What I sometimes wonder is how they don’t get tired of themselves, and my answer is the only way, that is possible, is because this whole thing is a big old game. And the elections are like a favorite stage that one goes back and plays over and over again.

Interestingly just like the good fighter games, each fighter has his own story, that you unlock at the end of the duel, each sub character has one too. But the greatest similarity is that the audience in real life too, just stands around and repeats the same motion of cheering and slapping palms together. Thankfully, though, in real  life, at least the faces change!