How do you sleep at night? – Anna Marie Galea

Among the queues at the bank to cash the government cheques and the videos promising women boob jobs, I came across a video taken after the leaders’ debate that recently took place at the university.

The main questions which were asked were which leader spoke best and if the debate had in any way managed to change the students’ minds about who they would be voting for. Unsurprisingly, most of the students who went on record said that the debate hadn’t made them want to vote differently but there was one young woman who said that it had.

It was a seemingly innocuous comment and one that she had every single right to make, yet, despite this, the backlash was nasty. Her father eventually waded into the social media massacre, stating that no one had any right to shame anyone for the way they wanted to vote and that, ultimately, it was his daughter’s choice to pick which party she wanted to vote for and no one else’s.

With little more than a week until the country goes to the polls, I find it hard not to be appalled by the way my fellow countrymen still choose to go about things. Instead of reading manifestos, looking at what has been happening in the country over the last decade and...