Late Friday Night Ode To ... Voter Attention Deficit Disorder
Voter apathy, voter disinterest, misinformed voters or even uniformed voters ... ah yes, indeed - intellectual sloth and democracy, culture and our future.
A cancer on the body democratic which keeps on spreading.
Not just in the U.S.A., but also in Canada as well as in all of today's democracies.
And that is why, in Canada, Harper and his Harpies are likely to win a minority (at least) government again, whereas in the U.S., the Obama-McCain race remains a close one (and McCain's mendacious "suspended campaign" stunt looks like it will greatly impact positively on the American electorate).
So first, a little snippet of information (simply replace "American" with "Canadian", and any American institution with a Canadian one, if you wish to):
A cancer on the body democratic which keeps on spreading.
Not just in the U.S.A., but also in Canada as well as in all of today's democracies.
And that is why, in Canada, Harper and his Harpies are likely to win a minority (at least) government again, whereas in the U.S., the Obama-McCain race remains a close one (and McCain's mendacious "suspended campaign" stunt looks like it will greatly impact positively on the American electorate).
So first, a little snippet of information (simply replace "American" with "Canadian", and any American institution with a Canadian one, if you wish to):
And now, for the Ode proper - a double-shot of Stone Temple Pilots:
(Vasoline)
(Vasoline)
(Dead and bloated)
As I always say - keep on rockin'!
We never did have it as bad as our fellow citizens in the UK. Thatcher was tremendously more cut throat than Mulroney ever dared.
ReplyDeleteAt the time, I was mostly abroad and ran into many very disillusioned and bitter exiles from the UK. I really had no idea how bad a change of government could be until much later, when I renewed my political interest.
I suspect that Harper will further his quest to thread social conservative values a lå Reagan into our collective psyche and institute dramatic cuts and privatizations that were the hallmark of Thatcher's rule.
I really do hope that the polls are absolutely wrong. Some pundit mentioned on CBC's The Current that pollsters haven't fully caught up to current technologies and their phone polls do not capture people who only rely on cell phones. In other words, the youth and the financially constrained may be our salvation.
Sorry BY - although there is some small part in me that shares your hope, the cynic in me is winning big time over and my diagnostic is that we have reached the point where Americans were in 2004 ...
ReplyDeleteIn order words: it's bad, now. It's really bad ...