Alan Ianson wrote to Kevin Fisher:
AI> Kevin Fisher wrote to All:
AI> 
AI> KF> Oh well.  What bothers me most is the way the Canadian voter works. 
AI> KF> Reactionary.  Canadians vote against that which pisses them off the 
AI> most.
AI> KF> No history, no "learning what the issues are", no
trying to see what 
AI> the
AI> KF> people they are voting for are REALLY about--just reactionary, spur of 
AI> the
AI> KF> moment anger.
AI> 
AI> Are you from BC? That's what's been happening in BC for the longest
AI> time. In my younger years I remeber the Social Credit party going down
AI> in ruins to the NDP I think. The Socreds are back now, they're now
AI> know as the BC Liberal party. The BC voters have put up with their crap
AI> for the last two elections. If they don't like a contract they tear it
AI> up and legislate something in it's place. The voting public in BC are
AI> going to get reactionary again I think.
AI>

Nope, I'm in Ontario.  Same deal here...been watching this train wreck for
over 15 years now.  We booted the Peterson Liberals out of blind rage over his
Mulroney sycophantism and brought in the NDP (who weren't even ready for 
the job themselves...I think the must surprised person was Bob Rae..."What?
We won?")  After four years of Rae, people were so angry they voted for
the exact opposite again...Harris and his neo-con PCs.  Took 8 years for 
people to get angry enough to pull another knee-jerk election, but they did.

NO ONE knows any of the issues.  They've never heard of the Fraser Institute,
they know nothing of Harper's little speech to the American whackos (even WITH
the Liberal attack ads spelling it out in plain English), they know nothing
of the whole neo-conservative movement at all...they're just angry at the
Liberals, and will vote for the opposition regardless.

 
AI> KF> Look at Ontario.  Oh yeah we were angry at Peterson, the bloody 
AI> Mulroney
AI> KF> lickspittle.  Who's on the opposite side of the fence?  VOTE FOR HIM!  
AI> KF> Enter
AI> KF> Rae.  4 years later:  "Oh that incompetant Rae!  Let's
vote for the
AI> KF> opposite...HARRIS!"  And so it goes, over and over again.  We 
AI> Canadians
AI> KF> only
AI> KF> vote against the ones pissing us off at that very moment.  And we're 
AI> about
AI> KF> to
AI> KF> do it again.
AI> 
AI> There isn't a lot to vote for it seems. These guys get in power and then
AI> say to themselves "Oh, who do we need to pay?". I think
Paul Martin is
AI> still the best leader but the Liberal Party seems to have been corrupted
AI> somewhat. I guess after being in power for so many years they forget.
AI> Jean Chretien is the one who should have been booted and I think this
AI> has a lot to do with what he left behind for the Liberal Party.


I think people are in for one hell of a shock when Harper gets in power.
Too many people were duped into believing they are the "Tories" of old...
which of course, they aren't at all.  I've been calling them the Canadian
Republican Party...


AI> 
AI>  Ttyl :-),
AI>          Al
AI> 
AI> ... When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt
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