@Frustration in Excelsis  
God I wish this was true in real life. Would rather vote for a person instead of a party.

Yes, Twilight, that’s how elections work.

Holy crap look at Glimglam’s tiny little arms.

Famous last words, AJ…  
Famous. Last. Words.

no actualy we cant aparantly because we have to bicker and throw a shitfit about how our view is the best one and the rest of you should end over backwards to be yiffed silly by our personal view of how the world works

@Background Pony #4343  
That’s because Andy Price used to do all the art.

Hang on, didn’t the comics used have better art than this?

@Beau Skunky  
I think those are Spike’s.

What? Stockpiling? No. They just insist I should take what can be had.

@Mystic Beast  
To what end? Are they stockpiling?

“No matter who you vote for in the elections, I won’t unfriend you. That deters democracy and freedom of speech.  
I’ll only unfollow your stupidness”

@Darth Sonic  
Exactly what it sounds like. People insist I qualify for shit, and demand I sign up to get it.

@Mystic Beast  
The whole government goodies thing.

@Darth Sonic  
Curious about what?

@Background Pony #01AF  
Oh. Well, yeah. I still don’t think friendships or familial relations should be broken over a vote, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hold friends and family to account.

Glimmer has tiny hands?

Never mind that the whole ‘democracy’ part of this story – heck, the setting – is nonsensical anyway. In a world where some people can toss fireballs with their mind, the best rulership you’d ever be able to hope for is one where they realize that treating their people with some decency is better than just burning everyone down who disagrees with you.
 
Or so some friends of mine who spent several years working in te Third World have baldly informed me.

@Darth Sonic  
I’m not saying that people’s lives should be controlled by social media and public opinion, but among friends and family, it’s important to be able to discuss these things openly without being suppressed by the need to avoid conflict.

My feel when Applejack speaks in favour of democracy.
 

 
“Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if to social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty. But all this ease in our private relations does not make us lawless as citizens. Against this fear is our chief safeguard, teaching us to obey the magistrates and the laws, particularly such as regard the protection of the injured, whether they are actually on the statute book, or belong to that code which, although unwritten, yet cannot be broken without acknowledged disgrace.”
 
(Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.37, Pericles’ Funeral Oration, also known as “Pericles’ Praise of Athenian Democracy”)

Having a voting which where all voters are participants to vote on … doesn’t seem too fair.  
You should bring in more people to vote, who aren’t too related.

@Background Pony #01AF  
Look, I get what your saying, and you’re not entirely wrong, but there is danger down this path. What you’re talking about can easily lead to mass social ostracization which can be just as damaging as legal ramifications when it comes to undermining democracy. Or are you of the camp that thinks juvenile bullshit like “Vote Trump, Get Dumped” was justifiable?

@Darth Sonic  
Election choices affect millions of people (or at least several dozen in Ponyville’s case). Among those are often friends and family. Yes, it’s a foundation of civilized society that people are free to make their own choices, but those choices can still be wrong if they hurt the people you care about. Accountability for your own actions doesn’t cease to exist when those actions are indirect. Democracy may require that there be no legally enforced consequences for casting one vote over another, but it’s not supposed to render everyone immune to social and emotional repercussions as well.
 
How is it wrong to hold people responsible for helping put someone in power who they know is inclined to harm others?

@Background Pony #01AF  
>Anything serious.
 
So him feeling guilty because he couldn’t be there when I was recovering in the hospital because of school isn’t serious?
 
Look, I know what you meant, but it seems to remove the personal aspect of friendship. Also, it ignores the amoral nature of true friendship. The best friends are the ones who go to jail with you after you both dick up burying the body after all.
 
And your example given is once more the reason First World democracy is going to shit. Democracy is predicated on the idea that you, and you alone, have the prerogative when it comes to who you elect. To say an election choice is immoral undermines democracy on a fundemental level.

@Darth Sonic  
If a friendship goes away when there’s anything serious at stake, then what is it really worth? What if one of the main six votes for a mayor who then proceeds to pass a law that ruins Rarity or Applejack’s livelihoods? Would that qualify as everything turning out fine?
 
Making niceness a priority above right and wrong, to the point that safety and logic are thrown out the window just to make everyone feel a little better, is a problem the comics have exhibited before. I can only see statements like this as another example of it. Claiming that the world would be a better place if everyone relaxed and let go of their disagreements sounds good on paper, but at the end of the day, no problem will be solved if someone isn’t willing to point out a mistake. More than that, the world needs people who can hold their ground and speak honestly even when telling the truth makes others unhappy.
 
I would expect a character who represents the Element of Honesty to defend that, not discourage it.