Question your sources, step back and never inherently trust pictures.

So, we're nearing the final months before elections take place, and people are ganging up on each other trying to sway the public opinion.  It's a great show of how democracy is being lauded as a positively proper system of government as long as your opinion is the same as mine otherwise you are an idiot that wants to kill the country, eat babies and destroy the environment.

Obviously this is an over exaggeration of how things are, except when it's not.
A lot of people are trying their best to ensure that those who are undecided suddenly hit enlightenment, and those who have more of a decision made shoot for clairvoyance status and can positively without a doubt SHOW how bad things will NOT suddenly happen once their candidate is elected.

When I was back in High-school I had a wonderful history teacher, he made classes fun (for me), hilarious debates (at least for me) and gave very good lessons for how to deal with History (as a subject) and life for us.

One thing that simply stuck with me, is this "never just trust a picture and ALWAYS question sources".

It's simple, lacking context, you can make a picture show anything you want.  

 Take the picture above as an example, I did a minor survey of the "what's going on there?" sort.
From the people I queried, I had various responses, one said "An African American struggling with a man on the floor", Another one said "She's protecting the man", and as far as we can tell neither is wrong.

The real situation is explained on this article, if you don't care about clicking, she's actually protecting him from getting beaten up by the mob, but FROM the picture we can't tell accurately what happened, except that there's a mob, a rally, and two people on the floor one CLEARLY worried.

BBC will help you get context of it, on that particular instance.

Now, in my country, people are putting pictures with no context as clear examples of an "evil" thing candidates may have done or how badly they upheld their public positions or other stuff.

Pictures lack context, this one is an example:

The argument is, that the municipality did a lousy job of cleaning the city, and that this is a clear example of lack of public office follow through.

While that may be the case, I see a ton of trash on the street that was clearly put there by citizens living (or working) on that particular block.  I see a lack of civility or neighbourly duty as well in regards to how to deal with solid wastes.

Other than that, I don't know if the truck was just about to pick it up, if the collections department was on strike, if the trash had been there for more than a minute or, which is the case A LOT of the time when dealing with political parties, this picture was staged.

But lacking context, I can't use that picture as an example of who NOT to vote for, there are plenty of BETTER examples out there right now, should people care to read, but this picture?  Not really useful at all.

Lacking this context, or information making a valued (and valuable decision) is quite nigh on impossible, so please, IF you decide to vote, cast a ballot and participate in a democratic exercise:

Again that's just my opinion, I could be wrong...

(that last line, I stole from Dennis Miller :P)