power outrage

Today, I was watching the Israeli Election Commitee, as groups come in to register parties. An interesting process where people come in and tell a committee why their party is running. It's fascinating to watch as people from different sectors of society came in to talk about their party and its values. 

In today's session 18 parties registered: parties such as 'Nativ', a party of people of disabilities; 'Yisrael Chofsheet', a party of different activists trying to change how Israel is run; the Bible Party, made up of Jews and Christians together; the Pirate Party, who believe the internet should run democracy; 'Lev Yehudi', a guy who's running on the platform that Israelis, in his eyes, is not being good-hearted and funding genocide and not looking for Raoul Wallenberg;  another party who's head is in jail for creating 'Telegrass', a telegram group for dealing drugs; 'Kama', who are the polygamous wives of a cult leader called Ambash, who recently died in jail; and many more. 

Democracy is crazy, all these small groups are living in hope and faith that they will be elected, even though according to Israeli law, you need four seats in order to get in the Knesset.

Over last few days, my wifi has been cutting off.  Every time I turned on my TV, the wifi would cut on my laptop. I called Sky and it turns out that it was due to me getting a second TV box for my room. The second box didn't have the right software,  so when I turned on TV, it caused outages.

It made me think perhaps, it's the same with politics. These small parties know they have no chance, but they want to show there are issues and problems that Israel needs to deal with as a country.

Like a democracy where the software is not updated, so we are not working as a team and this causes outages for the rest of the team.

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