Posts Tagged with ‘politics’

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Dear Canada: You need to vote, goddamnit.

Apr 21

I try and avoid political issues for the most part. That is to say, I try and avoid writing about them. I try to do so because there are better venues to have these discussions,which thanks to the Internet, generally degrade into tinfoil hat-wearing crap-slingers raging at each other. It’s hard to have an intelligent conversation about it 90% of the time, so it’s best to avoid it on small blogs.

That said, I’m going to break my rule a bit here and make a point to say that Canada, as a ‘great example’ of a democracy has some of the worst voting numbers I have ever seen. I’ll admit that I’m not that old, but there is imperial data to back me up, and the percentages have been slipping like my grades did throughout highschool.

To be honest, it’s a fucking disgrace, and we as a country should be utterly fucking ashamed.

The U.S. has way more interesting elections

Nov 06

That’s sort of a crime, don’t you think? They have two major parties, and the candidates vie for supremacy until it is down to two presidential candidates and their running mates. Then those two groups campaign for over a year, and then on election night, every possible station is glued to the election and they bust out some sweet technology to make all this shit that much cooler. To top it all off, at the end of the night, both the winner and the loser give solid, stand-along speeches that actually make you nod your head, tear-up, or just feel proud.

Canada has four major parties (yes, I count the Greens as a major party) they campaign for a couple months, and then with a record low vote, we elect an idiot and his gay-hating friends. The election night didn’t even have a good representation of what was going on, and I ended up using the Internet to find a better breakdown of what the hell was going on. I don’t recall any speeches that actually struck a chord with me, and I’m a God-damned Canadian.

This shit is bananas.