Stephen Harper has won an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons this most recent election. So, there goes the old stereotype of a liberalistic Canada, eh?
I'm not even quite what sure to say, except this... democracy is the worst form of government, except all those that have been tried. This election saw a 60% voter turnout, 40% of which voted Conservative. That means that 24% of the population of Canada is Harper's so-called 'majority' government, and that apathy is to blame for the plutocratic oligarchy that has now arisen, unexpected and out of nowhere, from an otherwise quiet Monday night.
Every time I compare Harper to Hitler, it's not out of any wish to actually say Harper is as evil of a mother fucker as Hitler was... I doubt Harper is evil at all, just arrogant and full of himself like most Conservatives that convince themselves that they know best. I compare Harper to Hitler only to make this clear statement: both are good for the economy, but tremendously bad for the people.
As a result of the 'Harper Government,' as I should now call it, considering it is probably no longer known (officially) as the 'Government of Canada,' Canada is involved in 3 wars, and counting. That's 3 different hot-zones of state-sanctioned violence and murder.
During this past election, every party did, indeed, attempt to get the 'lowest common denominator' to rally behind them... but the difference between the Conservatives and the other parties (save for maybe the Liberal's under Michael Ignatieff) is that the NDP, Bloc Quebecois, and Green Party all tried to appeal to the more educated and socially aware of us, as well as tried to appeal to the 'lowest common denominator,' whilst the Conservatives (and to be fair, yet again, Michael Ignatieff's Liberals) appealed only to the lowest common denominator using shallow promises of things the politically ignorant populace hardly understood the implications of. In a democracy, if you can get the lowest common denominator to rally behind you, you can do practically whatever the fuck you want... and I'll give that to Harper, he's one crafty little mother fucker, and sure knows how to take advantage of peoples ignorance effectively. Not that it should be anything for him to be proud of, however (albeit I bet he is).
I'll also give something else to the Conservatives; their ability to get out to the polling station in droves and vote. The fact that the entire Canadian right-wing is represented under one party kind of helps the Conservatives on issues of unity, unlike the Canadian left, which is fragmented into 3 to 5 different parties, and makes it that much easier for the right to win as a vote-split is more likely than everyone agreeing on a single party to go for in federal elections.
The Canadian youth are finally growing up, however, and 4 years from now (if not before), the youth will rise up en masse and shove the Conservative majority up Stephen Harper's ass and out his mouth. The era of the baby-boomer's is coming to an end, and the age of youth apathy is also slipping away. Don't believe me? Look to the youth fighting and dying for their freedoms in North Africa and the Middle East.
The world is changing, and although the informed among us lost this battle, we haven't lost the war.
the conservative party of canada is a puppet and mouthpiece for wealthy businessmen and big oil & gas.
ReplyDeleteharper's gang of blue meanies knows only too well how to manipulate and connive their way into the minds of the easily duped, like some kind of carnival hucksters, in order to appeal to the mass of village idiots who then believe that voting tory is in their best interest.
thankfully, 60% of those canadians who voted rejected their machinations. the big problem now is our faulty electoral system which allows a party with a minority of votes to have a majority government. shame! shame! shame!
Harper is bad for the economy. Unemployment remains high and they have vowed to create new unemployment if it drops too much. This is to keep wages down.
ReplyDeleteHe is giving away billions and billions to the already very wealthy as part of this corruption disguised as an economic theory that states that bribing rich people creates jobs.
The media has invented this lie about Harper being good about the economy, it's only because the banks weren't totally deregulated that the banks didn't crash and had the banks crashed things would have been a lot worse. When he was in opposition he demanded bank deregulation.
Had he had his way the crisis would have been much worse. Had he had his way on dealing with the economic crisis with austerity, the economy would have plunged into the abyss. Instead, the so-called "separatist coalition" showed up and that forced him into changing direction and committing heresy and having stimulus spending.
We will be subject to the most damaging experimentation in Canada with austerity the new fashion in the Western world. It was Harper who started preaching it at the G8 despite his less than austere bill for security. Then again, for Harper, there is never enough money to lock people up or kill them.