I am not ready

I am seventeen, so next year I will be able to vote. Nevertheless, I have decided not to vote, because I think I am not ready to do it. I don’t know very much about parties, left and right wing’s ideologies…

I know that politics are very important in our life, because in someway, we depend on them, and they depend on us. We live in a democracy, the best way of living nowadays. But democracy means that we can vote to choose the government we want. There is the problem; I don’t know who vote for.

All the parties spend the 70% of they money on campaigns. They give out pretty election posters, with ingenious slogans in order to persuade people. I don’t want to be one of them. It seems that always wins the party that spends more money on the campaign, are we so easy to persuade?

Yes, I think so. We are being persuaded all the time. The advertisements are an example of that. Because of that reason, I have decided not to vote until I am ready, or I think I am ready not to be persuaded.