Jason Silver

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

Back to Politics

Well, here I am back at commenting on politics. Probably will be the last time.

I'm so disgusted by politics. I guess I must be thick: I keep thinking that at some point people will come around to my side, suddenly see things my way, suddenly 'have a brain' (as if I'm the only one who can think, I know). But that's not going to happen, so who am I kidding?

I just want to give some new people a chance to do this right. A different approach. A different outlook, different agenda, different set of priorities. So what that Canada has always been Liberal. Yeah, we've had a few shots at Conservative governments here and there, mostly Red Tories, not real true conservatives. It just doesn't seem like Canada will ever be anything but a second-rate nation morally or economically. The people living here are true liberals; they're lefties. They really believe that homosexual marriage can be good for society; really think that aborting babies is a good thing; think our money belongs to the government; that we deserve bad health care, and don't deserve privacy and independance: they really want the government to be too involved in all of our lives. I guess they're satisfied with an economical situation where our dollar isn't as strong as it should be, where the government is about being big, and powerful, and domineering. This all sounds sarcastic, but that's only because I don't know how to reconcile all this.

Left. Right. They're associated with modern or old fashioned. Maybe people don't stop to think about if that's really true, or if being more modern is being better?

But what's the point in ranting on to you? The election is over, and just like four years ago, I feel disillusioned, disappointed, disconnected. My opinnion is not represented in parliament, but maybe it's not common among Canadians either, so perhaps the system works.

I guess I'm just a fish out of water.

~Jason