باختصار
إن ترشحتَ لمنصب عام، وإن لم تكن جاداً/ة، فإن ذلك قد يُحدِثُ تخريباً على سياسةٍ معينة للدولة، أو على مرشح سيء، أو من الممكن أن يروّج هذا الترشح لفكرة مهمة، أو يشكّل تحدياً للحدود المرسومة للنظام الانتخابي نفسه .
إن صندوق العدة أداة حية تتطور باستمرار ولذلك بعض الوحدات (مثل هذه) متوفرة فقط كملخص للفكرة. هل ترغب/ين بمساعدتنا في كتابة هذه الوحدة؟ تواصل/ي معنا!
The joke is mightier than the sword.
— Bassem Youssef
المبادئ الأساسية
Don’t forget this is a joke. Elections are a seductive power ritual. If you are doing well as an electoral guerrilla, you’ll get a lot of attention due to your clever, critical pranks and incursions into the field of “legitimate” debate. This may lead to you or members of your crew to think, “hey, we might actually win; let’s tone this down and get more respectable.” The campaign then becomes just like the other boring candidacies, except without the money or insider connections. Yawn. The end. The power of the electoral guerrilla is in great part the fact that you are not trying to win state power but to call its core premises into question.
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