In a perfect world, the point of democratic elections is to give citizens the right to express their wills. Sometimes democracy even works that way in our imperfect world. But in Latvia, it is already abundantly clear that most voters in October's parliamentary election will not express their opinions by casting votes. They will express something other than what they believe. A casual survey of voters in Riga shows that each major Latvian party has two groups of core supporters: one which backs the party's political platform, personalities or general competence and another composed of peopl...
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