Time’s a funny old thing isn’t it! As time passes we all grow and develop our thinking and our reactions. Sometimes we make a decision ahead of an event that we will go this way or that, do this or that, vote this way or that way. Time then passes before the event takes place and we have time to reflect on our decision making. We experience other events and other people have the opportunity to influence our decision about what we are going to do.
So it could be with the lengthy Labour Leader Election process. Some of us made early decisions and declared our support of a particular candidate. We felt confident that on the relatively limited knowledge we have of the individual we could make a decision.
But then events and people intervene. We hear other people express their views, the candidate we have declared our support for takes their thinking in a direction which is different to what we believed or they fail to live up to our expectations.
In an age in which more people seem more interested in voting for the X-Factor contestants than in General Elections there is an inevitable “x-facotrisation” of the mobilisation of support of a candidate. Maybe that starts to alienate us and we feel that something a little more serious might be appropriate to the times we are living in.
“Time changes everything” might not have the same resonance as the song title which it plagiarises, but it is as true. Observation, reflection and reaction can change our decision and as this Labour Leadership Campaign unfolds I suspect there will be many who may change their earlier decisions. That makes this campaign all the more interesting.
Related posts:
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.
Squidoo Lenses
Recent Comments