Election Day

Election season has arrived. Singapore goes to the polls today, while the United States struggles to maintain a stable democracy to ensure that its people can vote for who will be president.

Speaking of democracy, there are actually episodes of Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog focusing on elections, where the respective antagonists of these two shows tried to win an election, but utterly failed hard. Whereas these two TV shows demonstrate the existence of democracy in both the worlds of Mario and Sonic, the Pokemon World does not have democracy at all. The closest the Pokemon World can get to a democracy is the fact that Gary's father was the mayor of Pallet Town, and he participated in an actual election. This fact originated from the official Pokemon books written by the late Takeshi Shudo. For all we know, Game Freak is trying to hide the truth from the Pokemon fanbase about the Pokemon War that Lt Surge spoke about. Municipalities exist in the Pokemon World, but democracy doesn't, which could mean the Pokemon War backstory did not end with good prevailing, unlike Skyward Sword's Ancient Battle or Kirby Right Back at Ya's backstory about how Nightmare was originally defeated, which left Meta Knight and Kirby as the only Star Warriors left alive. No wonder Takeshi Shudo proposed a sad, depressing series finale for the Pokemon TV series, aside from the fact that Pokemon Gold and Silver were originally going to be the last games in the Pokemon series. Just the mentioning of a war in the Pokemon games alone makes the Pokemon series a very dangerous series. For all we know, Pokemon takes place in a world ruled by the leftists. From free healthcare for Pokemon, to the absence of competition in the Pokeconomy, the evidence that the leftists won the war are all but obvious. Yet Game Freak refuses to tell the Pokemon fanbase the truth about the Pokemon War...

So the elections are our chances to celebrate democracy. We must make our votes while we still can, before it is totally gone...