Still, I hope to be changing this icon soon
I would be much more excited about the prospect of a spring election if I thought the composition of the government was likely to change. But like I've said before, Harper could eat a live kitten on the National and my resentful, spiteful countrymen would probably still vote for him.
I don't understand it, and I don't understand why the Liberals don't get rid of Ignatieff, either. No one likes him. Not that I'd vote Liberal in any case, but traditionally, most Canadians do. Iggy's stupider than Dion and yet comes off as more of an egghead. He has a clear disdain for most of the population, and he's resolutely uncharismatic. At this point, with Tories' rampant disregard for the rule of law completely out in the open, the Liberals should be able to run a half-rotted turnip for Prime Minister and carry off a majority of seats. And yet, they hold fast to the one person whom no one wants to see running the country.
I'm not going to say anything bad about Layton, even though I generally have bad things to say about Layton, because I am not convinced that he will live through the election.
So that's my deep thoughts on the democratic process. I guess it's good because I'm unlikely to be disappointed by federal politics at this point.
I don't understand it, and I don't understand why the Liberals don't get rid of Ignatieff, either. No one likes him. Not that I'd vote Liberal in any case, but traditionally, most Canadians do. Iggy's stupider than Dion and yet comes off as more of an egghead. He has a clear disdain for most of the population, and he's resolutely uncharismatic. At this point, with Tories' rampant disregard for the rule of law completely out in the open, the Liberals should be able to run a half-rotted turnip for Prime Minister and carry off a majority of seats. And yet, they hold fast to the one person whom no one wants to see running the country.
I'm not going to say anything bad about Layton, even though I generally have bad things to say about Layton, because I am not convinced that he will live through the election.
So that's my deep thoughts on the democratic process. I guess it's good because I'm unlikely to be disappointed by federal politics at this point.
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Which is terrible, absolutely terrible. :(
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It's possible that a Mulcair leadership might attract more high-profile candidates, people that would usually go to the Bloc that might be tempted to ride on his coattails. I hear the NDP has serious hopes on a couple more seats this time around too, so it's getting interesting.
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He was rather opposed to a large Mont Orford sweet deal for a promoter, which lead to his being demoted to the more junior gov't post, from which he resigned. So there's some ethics there, or at least the ethics lined up with his ego ;) which I think is bigger than Jack's, if that's possible.
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When I voted last time, I voted for the NDP candidate because parties were at least being compensated financially for votes they received. Does anyone know if that's still the case? The Conservatives wanted to abolish this a few months ago.
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Seriously, my biggest worry over this is the not-outside chance of a Harper majority. Last Federal election was very low for voter turnout, can't remember if it was an all-time low, and maybe even fewer will turn up this time - it's this kind of cynicism and disengagement that is the greatest threat to what's left of our democracy. One thing we do know is that old and ignorant people vote a lot, and normally vote Conservative, so if enough of them show up this time it will hand power to a Conservative majority (no matter what actual protion of the popular vote they might control), and then you will see rule by real fiat, not the let's-pretend variety we have now.
(I should note that the previous sentence refers to the subset formed by the intersection of the sets "Old" AND "Ignorant", and is not meant to imply that all old people are ignorant, nor that all ignorant people are old. I don't know how to write this in symbolic logic.)