Reluctantly observing the birth of a brand new bigotry
You know, we are now eight days away from the inauguration, and, yesterday, over on the Obama 08 community, someone pointed to this article, because they "are interested in stuff about generational change
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In truth I think Obama won the election not necessarily just because he won on his strengths alone but because the opposition was so laughably inadequate that they lost it for their party. People were so horrified that Launchpad McCain* and Sarah Witch Hunter Palin were going to be in charge that those people who would normally be paralyzed by apathy and disinterest realized it was in their own best interests to keep those fools out of office.
* and no I don't have any fucking respect for McCain. He might have been an honorable man at some point - though it's hard to believe that if you read his book. But in his lust for the Resolute Desk he flip-flopped on every position he's ever held, supported an injust war, lied like a used car salesman, maintained the propagandistic delusion that Iraq is somehow 'better' or 'safer' despite all evidence to the contrary, ran as dirty a campaign as I've ever seen (only the illegitimate black baby thing by Bush against him comes to mind as something dirtier in the last decade) and then picked a Bible Banging Vagina as his running mate so he could roll both cynical sexism and religious extremism into it to get the PUMA and Wingnut votes and even HE said that 'Keating Five' should be carved on his tombstone.
So fuck him. I hope history remembers him as he actually was rather than this illusionary war hero he was supposed to have been back in the day.
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From what I could tell they've got more than their fair share of conservative wingnut assholes who are even more nasty, underhanded, psychotic, rude and destructive than the ones we have down here.
Like when they were going around cutting break lines on people's cars that had bumper stickers from the opposing political party - even the ones on mini vans with child car seats in them.
And who much like our own Wingnuts don't understand their own government. They were bitching about the Prime Minister and an election where they supposedly 'chose him'. But as the blogger pointed out the Prime Minister isn't an elected position - it's a position chosen by the members of parliament not the people. So the people didn't vote for him.
But they're also stuck with a 'liberal' party which has become synonymous with corruption, stupidity and an inability to have the balls to stand up for ones self.
They also have a government (which to me at least being raised American and never having experienced any other form of gov) that doesn't seem to make sense. Like how their equivalent of Congress can just be -disbanded- at the whim of their equivalent of Dick Cheney. I bet Darth gets a boner just thinking about it - No more Pelosi, no more Reid, no more Waxman... Oh yeah... ooo...(insert Penguin noises here). I realize I'm just a stupid uneducated American but that seems like legalized fascism just looking for a parking spot right there.
So they have the same problems we have but it sucks worse. Perhaps because of the smaller population the traits are more concentrated or something. I stopped reading because while at first I found it encouraging that we weren't the only country chock full of nimrods and imeciles, eventually the level of sheer dumfuckitude on both sides just became too much for me to handle. I haven't been back since.
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a curious thing about Canada I have always felt--we divide roughly into two groups of loudmouths--half pretend we are British, and half pretend we are American.
Now, it does not just divide along Libera/conservative lines or anything so simple. One big element is people panicking the new conservative leader is nothing but a clone of George Bush. We get to have big "Harper=Hitler" placrds at rallies,a nd get to compare Afghanistan with Iraq. The big dif being there actaully ARE terrorist cells in Afghanistan, and If Harper IS a clone of Bush,, he's more of a "mini me" type clone--let's face it, one of the big weights on America's shoulders, and one I feel for, is your elections dictate the course of the world for the next four years. Here? The only people punished for being so daft as to Vote Stephen Harper is us. I mean, so one less guy is going to slobberingly agree with George Bush in the press. who cares? and now that Obama is in, and our first encounter between Harper and Obama was Harper leaking memos from Obama to the press to discredit him during the Democratic primraies, I suspect our little Mini me has just had his wings clipped.
And given the gas prices dropped to where (Harper's biggest support base)Alberta's oil sands are no longer a viable neccesity, that should calm them down nicely too
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