News flash: Harper still sucks

[sabotabby]

Between our pathetic environmental record (and the impressive trollage by the Yes Men at Copenhagen) and the Conservatives shutting down the committee probing Canadian links to the torture of Afghan detainees, this has been an exciting couple weeks for news in the Great White North. By which I mean I am thoroughly disgusted by our government in a way that is almost refreshing. I mean, I knew they were evil from the get-go, but Harper was at one point able to disguise his oozing corruption and malice from a large enough group of voters to get into power. It's kind of amazing that I can still be shocked by anything these bastards do.

I'd like to think that his latest demonstrations are enough that he will be relegated to the status of national embarrassment, a collective cringe akin to that which history now gives Mulroney, but I think Canadians are by and large dumb and hateful enough that none of this will affect the outcome of the next election. Also, Iggy would probably do the same.

Comments

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Well, at least they aren't building a death star......yet.

[sabotabby]

Well, if it brings Alberta more money...

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

This would be the difference between the Yes Men trolling someone and the Yes Men trolling the fuck out of someone.

[sabotabby]

I used to dream of running off to join the circus. Now I dream of running off to join the Yes Men.

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

They're like what Anonymous could be if they ever actually tried.

But don't most Canadians realize by now that Harper wants Canada to be exactly like United States except for being vaguely royalist?

[sabotabby]

I don't think so. Most Canadians have their heads up their asses and think that the status will continue to be quo regardless of who they vote for.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

"Go go status quo! It's the only quo we know!"

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

i feel that way toooo :(

[sabotabby]

Don't blame me I voted Marxist-Leninist.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Keep going down this road and ... well, you'll catch up with us.

[effexorrx.livejournal.com]

I was listening to a local talk radio show today, and one of the callers suggested that progressives (meaning those of us who vote NDP or Green) be sterilized so as not to produce any more progressives. I bring this up because it not only shocked me -- as did the cheering squad that continually called to backup this man's sick diatribe -- but because the worse Harper gets, the more suport he seems to garner from the ignorant lunatic fringe. It's strange, but the man seems to grown in strength and power each time he commits another crime against minorities, the environment, the poor, students, the elderly, and anyone else with a heartbeat who isn't a card-carrying member of his merry band of Capitalist Bastards.

Like the radical religious-right (read: Republicans) of the U.S., Harper and his party keep getting short-sighted and easily fooled Canadians to vote against their own interests. It's not just shocking, it's appalling.
I agree: Iggy take a different route, but he'd ultimately lead lead us down the same road.

In Ontario, we've got McGuinty to deal with, too.

It's enough to make me want to move to. . .hell, I dunno where. Holland, maybe? Iceland? The North Pole?

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

It's oddly reassuring to the cynic in me to see the "We superior American liberals will escape to Canada!" meme deflated by the reality that people are people, and subject to pretty much the same cognitive biases everywhere.

[culpster.livejournal.com]

I continue to cling to my beleaguered belief system that posits PEOPLE AREN'T DUMB, though at this historical moment my argument would mainly be reduced to semantics. Otherwise, my sentiments exackly.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

For me, the successive elections of these Neo-con bullies is really, really challenging my faith in human decency and the cooperative spirit, you know?