@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:
People just won't vote for a good government?
People cannot vote for a good government. Impossible. People vote for a party, and the party with most votes gets to assemble a government. If the winning party fails to collect more than half the mandates in the parliament, they lose the right to assemble a government to the next largest party.
Now, there are 120 seats in the parliament, so you need 61 at least. The largest party typically has 25-35 seats, so they have to build a coalition. That means giving in to demands of lesser parties to reach those 61+ seats. And there are parties who serve only the interests of a specific group. So basically they say "we'll vote for whatever you want to pass, if you exempt our group from all taxes, and pay them a stipend". Its blatant blackmail, but if you want to rule the country, you have to get those 61 seats, so you agree... And you end up with a huge spending point in your budget, basically feeding the voter base for those people. Lowering taxes? You can barely scrape by, and you have a country to run, country with no natural resources, too many demands, and neighbours on all sides trying to murder the hell out of you.