The Politics Ugly

[plonq]

The Reformers Alliance Conservatives are doing their best to try and bring down the current government.  While I find it hard to sympathize with the Liberals, given the sleaze and rot that is festering inside their crooked little clan, I also find it very hard to side with Harper's lot.  He's joining forces with the Bloc.  Of course the Bloc are helping him out here - they are probably nigh orgasmic at the chaos they are helping to foment at the federal level.

As much as I dislike the Libs, I'm really leery of the current incarnation of the Tories.  At their core I see them as a party of hardliner fundamentalists who would love nothing better than to turn us into Jesusland North.  What's worse, they've shown that they are quite willing to bend over and spread for the Bloc in order to get their way.  I have serious concerns about a party that will so quickly crawl into bed with a group whose sole mandate is to destroy our country.

I can almost respect the NDP.  They're throwing their support behind the Libs just long enough to have their way with the federal budget, then they'll jump in with the Tories and Bloc.

I hate them all.  At the moment I'd be hard-pressed to name a single MP who isn't the moral equivalent of a fetid puddle of mucus in my books.  It's almost enough to turn a guy cynical.  Maybe I'll pound the pavement and campaign for the Libertarians in this next election.

Comments

[nduli.livejournal.com]

Aww, come on Plong, don't you want to be just like us stuck in Jesusland South? Who needs rights and freedoms when you gots a bible to thump?

[plonq.livejournal.com]

What doesn't help is that the leader of the Conservatives gives off the same vibes about GWB as that little dog in the cartoons who would bounce around the bulldog saying, "You're so brave and strong. You're my hero!"

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Alas, there is no option on the ballot for "drop the lot of them in a big tub of acid".

[kamiten.livejournal.com]

There's a libertarian party in Canada? Are they like the lib party here? (I'm the secretary of a county level libertarian party...)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Sadly the Libertarian party up here has very little presence. In fact they may not have enough members to be able to field any candidates in the next election.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think the NDP are too far left to hang out with the Conservatives.

That being said, the upcoming election will most likely end up being a vote-for-the-less-of-two-evils campaign more than voting for who you would actually like to win.

Ah, c'est la vie!

[plonq.livejournal.com]

It's a combination of the NDP being too far left, and the Conservatives being too far right. I'm thinking that there is a good likelihood of a Conservative minority after the next election, but they'll have to form an alliance with somebody in order to make it work. There is a snowball's chance in Hell that they would see eye-to-eye with the NDP on any matters - especially fiscal ones. Unless a bunch of Liberals cross the floor after the election, I can't see much cooperation between those two either. That leaves... the Bloc. The Bloc are pretty left-wing politically, so one wonders how long such an alliance would last.

It would be interesting to see how much damage they could do before it fell apart, though. Would Harper be willing to gut the country to stay in power?

[kfops.livejournal.com]

Yeeg! The thought of Harper in power just made my skin crawl! I don't think I want to even contemplate what he'd do to the country. I thought it was sort've annoying how badly Mr. Dithers wanted to be Prime Minister, but the Conservatives can't even wait a week to get their grubby paws on the position!

I just regret being born too late to vote for the Rhino party. Ahhh... now there was a party with direction.

[orleans.livejournal.com]

I haven't been this disenchanted with federal politics in a long time. I have a long tradition of voting Liberal, but I'm really fed up with them over the sponsorship scandal. I won't vote Tory, as I don't like what they stand for. People say it's in my interest to vote for them as they will lower taxes. But I personally don't feel that voting for a party that will take rights away from my gay and lesbian friends is in my best interest at all!

That sort of leaves the NDP, so I will vote for them due to their ongoing support of environmental concerns. But it'll be a rather unenthusiastic vote. :/

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I accidentally voted for the NDP in the last election. There was a pretty serious split vote between the Lib and NDP candidates, and as a result the Conservative candidate slipping in by a margin of about 200 votes.

I expect she'll get in easily next time around - which is a shame. Party affiliation aside, she's a total dork. =/