What!? No, no, no! How can he?! His plans don't make sense, he would be only useful if people honestly believed that his 1K per year per student means something, are Canadians really so short-sighted that they want immediate prizes instead of the big one at the end of the long road?!
its raining... even the environment is crying that harper is back.....
that being said, it was a pretty historical election. bloc is gone. liberals are knocked outta 2nd. all time high for ndp. and may got her seat. and the first majority in a loooong time.... sad face
Every informed vote is drowned out by tens of thousands of uninformed votes.
Most votes are ultimately discarded and useless.
The system is perfectly capable of ignoring the will of the majority when convenient.
Elected officials almost always abandon their campaign promises.
Most of the population doesn't vote regardless of whether you think they should.
Most everyone hates every option -- even the joke ones!
Every time there is a major shift in government it's because of a scandal, not policy.
Corporations already run the world, we don't get to vote for them, and politicians are scared shitless of them.
Good, decent people don't go into politics because it's hell.
Most MP's don't show up for parliament.
When they do show up, most just stomp their feet and yell like little children.
*cough*
I did vote, for the record, but it won't matter because Harper is killing political funding from votes. Hurray! My vote was 100% useless and meaningless!
But I'm a "good person" because I voted in a broken system that doesn't work. Thanks, stupid older generations passing down BS rhetoric. You did us proud today.
I am happy the Libs and Bloc are dead and May got a seat. All the left-wing parties need to merge. All of them. Right wing politics is too strong in the Corporate Age to be splitting votes.
The triumph of Harper's Conservatives is a revolution in Canada. Grumpy old men are happy but modernists, women, young people, immigrants, people fond of evidence-based policy will be much less so. It's the beginning of a kind of war, conducted in a dull, quietly agonising way.
We call them tea baggers...
Sorry we gave you herpes... There isn't a cure other than smothering a few million gray hair'ed idiots in their sleep... Hopefully with time a cure will be found.
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At least the Bloc is gone...
This sucks!
How did this happen?
that being said, it was a pretty historical election. bloc is gone. liberals are knocked outta 2nd. all time high for ndp. and may got her seat. and the first majority in a loooong time.... sad face
Good article from the UK describing the situation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/03/canada-stephen-harper-american-politics
I did vote, for the record, but it won't matter because Harper is killing political funding from votes. Hurray! My vote was 100% useless and meaningless!
But I'm a "good person" because I voted in a broken system that doesn't work. Thanks, stupid older generations passing down BS rhetoric. You did us proud today.
I am happy the Libs and Bloc are dead and May got a seat. All the left-wing parties need to merge. All of them. Right wing politics is too strong in the Corporate Age to be splitting votes.
this makes me sad, because that article is so true....
Sorry we gave you herpes... There isn't a cure other than smothering a few million gray hair'ed idiots in their sleep... Hopefully with time a cure will be found.
I just