Election Saturation

Is it just me, or is it just getting too much now? The constant talk, so-called ‘expert analysis’, endless trite journalistic commentary, minute probing of every possible element of the party leaders’ purported personalities, cameras and microphones extended ruthlessly into every conceivable party-political orifice, and all of this played over and over again ad nauseum.

Last night’s final leader’s ‘debate’ was the clincher. After all these weeks of cheap point-scoring and badly aimed pot-shots on all sides, the last debate felt like listening to the same broken record, except slightly more out-of-tune and now almost excruciating to hear again.

Nothing new in the debate, no meaningful elaboration of anything that’s been said, but instead each leader standing behind the firing line, indulging in the same banal repetition of exactly the same slogans and quick-fix supposed ‘policy’ solutions to micro-issues, without ever even daring to address the real fundamental problems we, and the world, are now facing. Indeed, nothing really seems to be any clearer than it was before the debates started. Now we have a better idea of who wants power. But most people still don’t feel like the debates have helped them make their minds up. In fact, many people feel more confused than ever.