fuck canada why

[cephiedvariable]

i actually started crying on the bus today when i remembered that the Conservatives have a majority now.

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[cephiedvariable]

I'm holding out on the hope here that Harper's ultimate goals are so against what the majority of Canadians want that him having absolute power will utterly ruin his street cred. I mean, five years is a long time but I don't think it's long enough to erase the political ethos passed down from the Trudeau era that has had Harper desperate to hide his past as a wingnut, anti-gay, woman hating fundie. Right now he thinks he's changing the political climate in Canada when all he's really doing is covering his tracks and manipulating apathy. Is five years long enough to make us into America?

Will people really be happy if he strips healthcare? If he kills the CBC? If he attempts to destroy the other parties? If he continues to shit all over our international image? If he starts stripping away our social security net?

I agree he's going to do a lot of damage- hell the last time the Conservatives had a majority, they destroyed the economy, but he can't just lie and cover it up forever. Right wingers always suffer a day of reckoning and I just don't think that kind of rhetoric has sway in Canada the way it does in the US because Americans don't understand what a shithole their country is because they've never had better. We have had better and people will notice when he starts us on a downward spiral.

I mean

Optimistically. (~-_-)~

im scared too cat hold me ;__;

[agawa_jean]

my problem is if he does those things, the force behind the political organizing against it can be much more easily dissipated in 5 years than if he had to deal with an election immediately. I mean, yeah, people will be upset about the CBC, health care, but its much much easier to dismantle that kind of infrastructure than to rebuild it.

also he is (somehow!!!) really really good at manipulating public opinion in the west. I'm a little scared that without Danny Williams the east might budge a bit more as well (although he isn't close to the only reason the atlantics didn't go very conservative)

I mean Canadians are in favour of abortion rights, heck, even conservatives alone poll in favour of abortion rights here, and yet! the Conservatives have defunded PP nationall and internationally. Who cares?

At the very least they're gonna fuck everything up. Worst cast, they defund and cripple the other parties (how much do I like that you don't have to be rich to run here?) and then I really don't even know.

let's live off the government and be female together and i will be gay married and hopefully everything will be okay or at least not totally fucked up beyond repair

lksjdfljdjf urggh can we make a pillow fort

[blackjackrocket]

Oh, I think Americans know full well what a shithole this country is. The problem is that most of us tend to deal with it by shoving their fingers in their ears and singing the national anthem instead of, you know, actually doing something to improve it.