Don't vote, don't complain

At first, I wasn’t really into the “voting” thing, I honestly didn’t care and didn't see the point of all of it, but then I realize that it is my duty as a future educator and professional to participate in politics, because I have to be an active and participative woman so I, next to my classmates and the entire citizens in Chile, can make a change in this society.
The candidates for the political elections should, in first place, live in the district so they can really know and recognize the actual problems existing in the area. Also, they have to be seen and known a long time before the electoral period, I have seen and heard propaganda of men and women that I have never knew before, they appear just in this process, because they need to be “familiar” to the people.
I have always criticize the Government in general, politicians and the capitalism system that reigns in our society nowadays, so I have thought of ways of solve the problems that complex us as a country, and also make a true and profound change, because the State powers, the executive, legislative and judicial, that are supposed to represent me, all the citizens, they don’t really represent us as a “popularity”.
I’m not a big fan of the political campaigns that there’s been giving by now; watching all that papers and propaganda around the country, on TV or in pamphlets on the streets is a little shocking for me. All of that money spent in electoral campaigns should be used for better purposes, for example, fixing the streets for the winter season, so people can across the street, not underwater and making sure that they will not get home with their feet soak.