Allister Tosh: I don't think much will change after election

Allister Tosh, Future Youth Party candidate for Tukituki.

Well, didn't the 23rd of September come quick, a bit like Christmas.

I can't believe that's already nearly upon us and Daylight Saving starting earlier and now I wonder if they have taken an hour off the world clock so our lives go quicker as a solution to the population crisis.

Who knows, and for that matter who really wants to know advanced voting seems to be popular this election and hopefully online voting in 2020, so more of the population under 30 vote. However, online voting is more complex than you would first think just like everything in life.

I got sent a study asking whether I thought 15 and 16-year-olds should vote and even though some people at this age are very intelligent I am still an advocate of 18 being the age because of issues like euthanasia, abortion, justice etc.

Even our politicians to this day struggle to make decisions because of a lack of life's experience.

Whether we like it or not world politics is evolving into a corporate machine, and even though I'm a true believer in social housing the reality is that when my daughter grows up there will be no social housing, no benefit system and a privatised education system.

Like the leader of the Black Panther Party in America said even though she does not agree with the Republican policies she believes that America needed Donald Trump so come 2021 the American people can see what side of the fence they want to sit on whereas under President Obama the country was floating in limbo.

Even though New Zealand has a big deficit, compared with America's deficit ours is peanuts and isn't it strange how debt also makes us lots of money to fuel our rock-star economy.

But like everything in life this can also come back and bite us, and if there was such a thing as a free lunch the cafe industry would go broke.

So come what may whether the Left or Right win the 2017 election, I don't really think a lot is going to change and we have also to remember that Bill and Jacinda, and the house of cards are merely in a managerly role and the reality is that the CEO of New Zealand is Donald Trump and then above Trump is Congress.

And maybe one day democracy will be insolvent and there will be one new world order because without order we have anarchy.

Although, with one world order comes revolution and none of us have to worry as none of us will be living on this planet if that time ever comes.

Allister Tosh is the Future Youth Party candidate standing in the Tukituki electorate. Views expressed here are the writer's opinion and not the newspaper's. Email: editor@hbtoday.co.nz