I Love the Unity

I love the fact that in Kuwait we don't have official political parties (the Kuwaiti Constitution, article 43). Creating parties and sects will only lead to labeling people as liberals, islamists, conservatives, communists etc. I hate being labeled as such, I do believe that people's cumulative opinions are like a fingerprint, no two think alike. Therefore everyone should be free to pick whichever combination of thoughts they want and that's what makes us interesting as human beings.

Forming parties creates division instead of unity amongst Kuwaties, and since it's election times already, I'm deffinatley not going to vote for the pro-partisan people and hopefully many people won't.


update: check out the downfalls of partisanship in a democracy older than Kuwait's.

Here's an excerpt from an interesting study done by ABC News (a US TV channel):

The research yielded some startling information. "There's a steady trend line from '76 to 2004 of the country becoming, pulling apart, becoming more politically segregated. We began to see this pattern that we eventually end up calling "The Big Sort," said Bishop. (...more)

I just hope this doesn't happen in Kuwait.