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.
Maybe they were just trying to prepare you for the futility of bourgeois politics <small>and capitalist workplace hierarchies</small>