You vote in leaders/parties/representatives not just so they can check off the list of things they said they would do, but because you trust them to make the hard decisions as well. People don’t seem to understand that for whatever reason (I’m remember the complaints about Notley not “running on” a carbon tax in Alberta, something which all provinces were forced to adopt and which she made the best of).
You vote in the person you believe will represent your interests. If that turns out to be untrue, you don’t vote for them next time. This idea that everything should be a referendum or that politicians should do anything they didn’t explicitly campaign on is extremely silly. there should be checks and balances to ensure things are legal/constitutional/without corruption/etc but not to ensure every decision is approved by everyone, that’s called an election and it already happened.
And yes, retirement/pension age needs to go up, probably further than the French did here, almost everywhere. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that retirement will look nothing like it looks now by the time I get there and won’t be protesting any increase when it comes down the line.
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