A purely Canadian Rant (or why I've sworn more in the last six days than in the last six years)
So, anyone following the manufactured crisis in Parliment right now, knows what is going on. I had thought my days of being incensed were long over (people still confuse my passion with anger, but nonetheless I don't often get angry over things nowadays) however, when I heard, sitting in my quiet little apartment, trying to settle myself for bed, that there was a back door coalition being formed to oust the current government, I found myself in one of the blackest rages I have ever felt.
Some background information: I was a liberal my whole life till approximately two years ago. Even upon not voting for them in the last election, i was still of the opinion that it was a temporary measure rather than a permanent shift in loyalties and that I would vote liberal again one day as soon as there was a leader that didn't scare the crap out of me.
I should state that I am also much more of an anarchist than I am a liberal. For those of you who know me through the church this might be confusing so let me elucidate - I am conservative and orthodox in my faith, but liberal to the point of anarchy (true historical anarchy not the crappy throw bombs at buildings kind) when it comes to my politics. So, with that being said, you might think the anarchist in me would welcome the coalition.
If I thought for one minute that the leaders of this infantile monster were anything other than power hungry politicians angry that their turn in the sandbox did not materialize when they thought it should (seriously, you can see them literally stamping their feet in a tantrum defying all reason!) i would be on board.
The argument that is being the most abused right now is that it is all on Harper's head. Yes, he is an asshole. Yes he's arrogant and has no empathy and seems to be severely deficient in that way, but hold on, this is not a good argument for upending a government. "I just don't like him" should be their slogan. Instead, if you listen carefully folks, their platform for putting us through this is just that...a platform. AN ELECTION PLATFORM!!! I am infuriated that I and my country should have to go through this simply because neither party in this coalition could run a successful election campaign when they had the chance. FOR F#@K SAKES! If you don't like it, then wait and hold a better campaign, or wait and elect a leader for your party that you all actually believe is a leader instead of giving us one that you don't even want for yourselves!!!
Yes, there have been coalitions in the past, that was in war time folks.
The irresponsibility of Harper's actions are so completely overshadowed by the irresponsibility of overturning a government when the whole world is in crisis. The fact that anyone is buying their saviour of Canada nonsense is beyond me!!! This is such a thinly veiled attempt at justifying compeletly out of control power choices that it makes me gag! See I am not even being articulate. Just when we were starting to look like the only safe bet on the planet to invest in, we look instead like a complete joke. Grown men playing amateur games at running a country. Men beyond their prime are being consulted, men who were simply too powerful and made most of us turn from the liberal party in the first place (yes Mr. Chretien, I am talking about you). I am all for a revolution, personally I pick Jesus as the head of the country, there's the original anarchist for you! I think that the other rot that is being spewed is that we need this huge financial bailout..what's the standard coalition line...."every other country in the world has one, why don't we??" Yes, and I'm sure someone stole your marbles and didn't give them back too. I am not sold on why we need a bailout, nope not one bit! Their fearmongering didn't get them the election on these same exact issues and now they are simply going in through the back door and trying to represent themselves as....ok. I'm done, all I hear in my head is yelling now. I think I'll move to Scotland....anyone heard anything embarrassing about Scotland lately??