Coalition FTW
Dec. 2nd, 2008 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyI suppose I should be blogging about the interesting turn that Canadian politics have taken in the past few days, but honestly, I've been so bogged down with work that I don't have much more of an analysis than anyone else. My closet Machiavellian appreciates this, though. Of all of the godawful things that the CCRAP party has done, I'm pretty certain that it's the threat against electoral funding that's going to take them down, if anything does.
At any rate, in response to those that argue that the coalition plan is undemocratic, ahahahaha. A first-past-the-post system is undemocratic, if by democracy one means the rule of the people—I mean, the majority of Canadians didn't vote for CCRAP. The majority of Canadians who voted didn't vote for CCRAP. So this power-play is actually pretty democratic, albeit not carried out for particularly selfless reasons.
Anyway, I'm enjoying it immensely, especially if this ends with someone other than Little Bush Jr. as PM.
I did have to look up "prorogue," though.
At any rate, in response to those that argue that the coalition plan is undemocratic, ahahahaha. A first-past-the-post system is undemocratic, if by democracy one means the rule of the people—I mean, the majority of Canadians didn't vote for CCRAP. The majority of Canadians who voted didn't vote for CCRAP. So this power-play is actually pretty democratic, albeit not carried out for particularly selfless reasons.
Anyway, I'm enjoying it immensely, especially if this ends with someone other than Little Bush Jr. as PM.
I did have to look up "prorogue," though.
