… “I’ve never understood people who treat politics as if it were football. In football, you support the same team from birth to death, through thick and thin; no matter how hopeless they become, you never abandon them for a superior rival.
In a voter, though, that kind of blind devotion is bizarre. If the party you normally vote for starts propagating ideas you oppose, then you’re entirely free – indeed, you’re wise – to dump them and back a rival.
Voters owe no loyalty. Give me the turncoat over the ideologue any day. You can’t trust ideology: it does your thinking for you.
Our democracy would be healthier if everyone were a floating voter.”
Michael Deacon, Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11980291/Forget-loyalty-to-your-party-everyone-should-be-a-floating-voter.html
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