The Mane 6 Talk Politics

by CategoricalGrant

BONUS: Starlight Glimmer- The Unopinionated Voter

On the way back to the train station, I ran into Spike who was off walking with Starlight Glimmer, an ex-villain that Twilight Sparkle and her friends had convinced to change. She (very reluctantly) agreed to a brief interview.

“So, Starlight Glimmer, what are your political views?”

“Well, you know my past. I was so fanatically in favor of forced social equality that I brainwashed an entire town of ponies and almost destroyed space-time in an act of blind revenge.”

“I uh…didn’t quite know all of that.”

Starlight Glimmer let out a very disappointed sigh.

“Of course you didn’t.”

“Do you still believe in social equality, but to a lesser extent?”

“No. Well, I don’t know, to be honest. I’ve stopped putting any faith in ideology. After becoming a tyrant, I recognized that nopony is good enough to lead anypony else. We’re all terrible. Why even vote? We should be making the world a better place with kindness and friendship, not policies.”

“So will you be voting next month?”

Starlight shook her head.

“Not a chance. It wouldn’t change a thing, anyway.”

At that moment, a train whistle cut through the air, and I bid a hasty farewell, retreating to the station.

I had been given a lot to think about on the train ride back to Canterlot and the CNN headquarters.

Comments

[Magthere]

Sort of reminds me of Stephen Maturin in the first of the Aubrey-Maturin series Master and Commander with Stepehn having views but somewhat disenchanted by both the French Revolution's loss of control and the failure of the uprising of 1798 in Ireland.

[Profesionalac]

Lol my parents over the candidate to choose

[Karan Dash]

It's CNN! The news must be horse feathers!

[Litqin]

So very true.

[Geeknerd]

Honestly, I can kinda see Starlight being like this. I imagine she would be disgruntled and disturbed by what she was before and what she thought before

[Godiswithus3]

Good on you Starlight. No more voting.

[RT Garbage Esq]

I can see why someone might be apolitical, but I still don’t like it. I feel like in a democracy, everyone not only has the right, but the responsibility to be politically active in some way if they want to see a better world, and getting informed and involved should be considered everyone’s civic duty. Voter apathy leads to misrepresentation, after all, and while politicians are usually terrible, politics are not an inherently bad thing. If everything’s so bad, why not do something about it? Sure, it might seem like your efforts do nothing at first, but if you look outside yourself, you’ll see there’s a world of people who see the same problems you do, and you really can make a difference.