Did your school ever do mock elections? We had students go through the entire Canadian parliamentary system, platforms based on current events, debates, followed by the entire school voting. And at the end they were just “Well here’s the results, cool huh? Well, that’s that.”
Little did I know how realistic that last part actually was.
That’s actually a pretty good representation of bourgeois elections, except you have two or more of the same person as candidates
I mean those were pretty much all the elections in high school besides 11th grade. The principal handpicked a couple of approved candidates, and we had to choose one of them.
Also, he dissolved the student council when they started questioning him about how much money he spent on the PA system, and where exactly that money went.
We had to sit through a two hour lecture about how questioning the school’s expenditures is bad.
Maybe they were just trying to prepare you for the futility of bourgeois politics <small>and capitalist workplace hierarchies</small>