The Blues
Blue is back at the helm, with another minority government. It would be too easy to go on a rant - the average Conservative is an IdealismVille pickup truck at day’s end. Any Government preoccupied with its citizens’ sex life, fighting for ends rooted in dogma, and keen to please the bully next door should be relegated not just to the backbench but the bleachers.
My fellow countrymen have once again swallowed a sugarcoated pill of Ignorance, Idealism, and Idiocy (just to stay within the letter I.) Ignorance most common in children and social conservatives, Idealism the bastard child of Feelgood and Ignorant, Idiocy an endless substance attracted to the former two.
While my opinion - and it is just an opinion - will make me unpopular, I look at the crowd and ask myself “Why the hell would I want to be popular with that crowd?” When it comes to politics, most can’t tell an ass from a head. Is it any wonder that they can’t tell from which end a politician parleys?
Harper - an economist - knows damn well that elimination of the prison tattoo and Vancouver safe injection site programs will not save money, for both decrease the significantly higher expenses we’ll otherwise need suffer in Health Care. Did you know that? Or did you instead buy the facade of “saving tax payers’ money?”
I am aware that there are many basis for choosing a political party, but how’d 5.2 million of you swallow the idealism, yet alone the rest of the crap? (Cough, cough.) I’m still gagging and coughing, and that’s after spitting the whole out before it could really do some damage.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:25
While I’m largely in agreement with you on your main points, there are a few things that could be said… For instance, idealism exists in many forms and at all points of the political spectrum. Wishing for, or even desperately hoping for, a “better world” or a “compassionate country” certainly is not the exclusive domain of right-wingers. Of course, hope and optimism are not exactly the same as idealism… but I still think that having a touch of idealism isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Only when it becomes the overarching theme of the day and blinds one to reality does it become a problem.
As for the sad results of our most recent election, that’s a complicated brew. And while you make a good case for the general ignorance and stupidity out there, I think that just as deadly was the apathy: so many people just didn’t care, and either didn’t vote (59% turnout is frankly pathetic), or simply cast a wasted ballot for the incumbent because they couldn’t be bothered to research the other candidates. Thus, the blue wave came like a tsumami over the whole freakin’ country. Pfft.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:51
It appears that our governmental system needs a good tweaking. No one is happy about the canadian elections this time around. Money spent, time wasted, no further ahead then we were before the election. In all likely hood we are further back then we were before this whole election debate.
I too am not proud that Harper got back in. I knew before the election began when people were using the term “Harper didn’t screw up” we had a problem. Sometimes, just sometimes, not screwing up is setting the bar too low and that is what we did. Of course the liberals scandal is still running in the back of peoples minds. The NDP in their infinite wisdom start talking about carbon taxes at a time when elections are due. The green party showing some brains but couldn’t appeal to the masses for some unknown reason.
I can tell you with all this craziness Harper will not have another election unless he does something impressive in his term this year. Impressive does not include lower taxes even further. That’s my rant as I show my shame for Canada.
I just want to say one last thing: “Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!”. Never before has a quote had more meaning about my emotions then this one does right now.
November 5th, 2008 at 14:18
icanrule, touché line! The one about gun powder… and on November 5th, too!
The one thing I kept hearing in the Canadian media is with the current system, people are not voting because so many votes count for nothing. Proportional representation is what most call for. Of course, it’s not in the ruling party’s favour to call for it, so only a party that is really looking to _serve the people_ would ever make the move while holding the power to do so.
I guess after last night we can at least exhale a sigh of relief, with the US election having gone in favour of Obama. Of course, his party is still further right than our Cons, but definitely the lesser evil of the two US choices. What ever his policies, I have not heard much in the way of idealism coming from Obama, which can only be a good thing. Nothing like someone at the helm with a conviction that they know with absolute certainty what is good for everyone, and the will to push it through in a misguided effort to help the people get back on some sort of imaginary, and supposedly moral path.
But regardless of Obama’s ideas, I can’t help but remain skeptical of how much he can really accomplish. Not getting into the amount of time he has in office, I am thinking of “Yes, Prime Minister” where a good willing man has over and over his hands tied by the system, and, well, politics.
And if anyone thinks that Obama will magically solve all the problems with the economy, or make Iraq go away, disappointments of paramount dimensions are sure to follow…