I had no idea that politics could be handled in such irresponsible way. I recently watched as 724 students out of around 750 raised their hands to impeach my university’s student president. He was accused of some sort of money scandal or another, along with a variety of other smaller complaints. I may sound like an ill-informed member of my student body when I speak of the reasons for impeachment and that is because I am.

The immediate “[removal] of the named individual from his or her position as a director,” (from an official pamphlet handout on the effects of the resolutions) was decided after a few months of slander (and rightfully named by the speaker who became humiliated when he mentioned this) in my school’s newspaper and speakers barging into classrooms to spit out their stories of why this person stole or how this person didn’t steal from the student society. I did not see one official document explaining what this person did, which is the reason I stood outside the voting area and watched as the vast majority launched their hands in the air at the first mention of “for impeachment!”

There were 8 abstaining, and I got the impression that there were many more silent abstainers in the crowed who voted yes in front of their peers. What kind of voting method is a hand raise anyways? My grandpa would tell me stories about how in communist Croatia there would be voting, but ‘there was always a guard looking over your shoulder to make sure you dropped your ballot in the Tito’s box.’ This is what this felt like; an overwhelming mass of outspoken and angry peers leading others to decide there and then whether or not they would be normal and with the majority.

The few people who had problems with the whole process were squelched and essentially brushed aside.

Now I’m confused. I guess I ought to be for wanting actual proof in a political situation.

So this is how politics operate!