Political Satire
I’m a Jesus follower. I agree with universal health care. I think the government needs to regulate business (to a certain extent). I’m not completely sold on global warming, though I think we need to do as much as we can to stop polluting our world. I don’t think someone who doesn’t consider themselves a resident of a country should run a country. I don’t think that someone who stops our elected politicians from doing the work we voted for them to do should not be running the country.
I also think that someone who has failed to win the place of ruling party more than four times should retire, no matter how loud he is, but I digress.
So, in Canada, we’re seeing the polls equalize between the Liberals and the Conservatives. Neither of which I can in good conscience vote for.
You know things are bad when a primarily liberal political satire starts making fun of the party they hold so dear: This Hour Has 22 Minutes had a brief “news story” that said that the more Minister Ignatieff didn’t say a word, the more the Grits shot up in the polls.
Either that or the Conservatives are doing it to themselves.
Political Apathy sucks.
It’s No Wonder
Yet another mud-slinging session in parliament. I’m really getting sick and tired of this sort of thing.
Just read this for the back story. I don’t want to reiterate the whole stinkin’ thing.
This is yet another reason that voter apathy in Canada is at an all time high. So here’s my take on the whole thing:
- The Liberals are accusing the Conservatives of bribing. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Do we remember the reason that the Liberals got voted out in the first place? Oh, that’s right. We don’t remember. The collective memory of Canada is shorter than the attention span of an ADHD kid.
- The Conservatives are making bribes. Can we say Liberals all over again? I think they should just merge those two parties, give the other parties (that seem to actually give a damn) a chance to get into office. Except the NDP. I shudder at the thought of “Prime Minister Jack Layton.” I need to go and clean myself now.
There are some days when I wish I didn’t care about my country and its political system. That might account for part of my high blood pressure.
Obama-nation
I have never really understood American politics. It seems a little redundant and convoluted. But of course my American teacher would take offense to that; many an American would even go as far as to say that Canadian (and, by association, British) politics are confusing. That’s not really the purpose of this article.
Rick Mercer, a comedian/Canadian political pundit (that could very well be compared to Jon Stewart) put the real comparison that needs to be addressed. Canada is known – even prideful – about its diversity. People of all nationalities, religions, sexual orientations and skin colours all live in relative harmony up here in the great white north.
But one look at our party leaders, a big white guy, a skinny white guy and a mustached white guy, would make you think otherwise. Sure, there is one female that I know of that is the head of a party, but that party does not have any seats currently, so you really can’t count it (how ever much you may or may not want to).
America is known the world over as a “melting pot,” which means (for a lack of a better dictionary) that everyone that enters into American citizenship does his or her hardest not to show the culture from whenst they came. And yet their political landscape, yes, has a few white guys themselves, but the front runners for one of the parties are a woman and a black man.
I say – good for them. Canada needs to learn a political lesson from the Americans. Not the confusing ones… the ones that show that the norm – or the white lawyers from Montreal, Toronto and Calgary – don’t need to be followed anymore. Voter apathy in Canada with the 30 and below set – including yours truly – is at an all time low. The political landscape in the US is more exciting than it’s ever been.
I think its time to kick out the white guy, the white guy and the other white guy. This coming from a white guy.