high school politics

so, next week is our campaign, miting de avance and elections. i'm not dwelling on the fact that i might lose too much. i've already given everything to God and so i feel content. of course, it'll hurt. who wouldn't be disappointed with losing the most important election of his/her life in high school? but, i really don't get high school politics. students vote out of popularity rather than the person's capacities to be in a student government. popularity tends - actually it really does - over shadow capability. there are some students who get in the government because they're popular, not because they have what it takes to run a government for the students. and thus, the SG will head towards a trainwreck. hence, the negative view about the government. and so, these people who think that the SG is nothing but a sore loser, will run to try and make it better. but in reality, the student government will never be as good as people would want them to be unless the people who run it are the people with initiative; people with feelings; people with experience; people who care and not people who use being in the SG for their own good. in my honest opinion, the principal should just appoint the students who she believes and the whole faculty believes to be efficient to be one of the main officers, like the president, vice, secretary, treasurer and auditor. to still keep the spirit of high school politics, the students would get to vote their batch representatives. forget the questions, forget the protests, forget the want of the students. what we're talking about here is for their own good. so i suggest, they should just shut up and enjoy the ride. =)))))))