The Canadians...
The Canadians don't vote
I'm out and out disappointed in many of my fellows who are eligible to vote and refuse to vote. Fuck, 59% of you voted, and I can see the majority of those votes being the ones who give a damn who is placed in power, like the big guys who make six figure wages annually. Because of that disgraceful vote ratio, the Conservatives have been re-elected. The only saving grace here is that they're a minority government, so they don't have full power like that of a majority government.
I do know that people did vote, but for some fucking reason, the majority of you didn't think voting was useful or were too lazy or stubborn to vote. Well, because of you non-voting citizens who can vote, we have that idiot in office once more. He doesn't appeal to the little guy, such as me and you (unless some of you are connected to people making millions a year), and is not doing much of anything good for this country. His party doesn't listen to us concerned average citizens nor does he care. Like me, many of you other average civvies have a gripe with him and the rest of the Tories; unless you are absolutely uninformed about any of the parties, for which I have no hope, voting helps.
If you don't vote, don't fucking bitch. You may believe that we live in a Fascist country but we don't, stop taking in those stupid conspiracy theories and shit to heart and grow up, we have a democracy. It isn't perfect, nor has it ever been or will ever be perfect, but it's still a democracy. Democracies allow the citizens to make informed (haha, yeah right, not quite so for Canada it seems) decisions about political issues -- like voting. Exercise your rights, and speak up. The voting process gives you that right. It's not that parties that are doing everything in their power to screw up the country are always getting in power, it's that not enough of my fellow Canadians are voting! The little guy is fed up with politics completely or knows jack all about the parties and what they stand for, while the big guy wants the Conservatives to win because the Conservatives will grant tax breaks and all that other bureaucratic nonsense to them, ala special fucking treatment.
The Liberals had a chance, for instance, but so many people took their CARBON TAX plan the TOTALLY WRONG WAY! This tax applies to industrial corporations who make billions of dollars in profit a year and who can easily afford a small tax like that. It would cost them just thousands a month. But many voters were turned off from voting for the Liberals because of the word TAX in 'Carbon Tax'. Utterly laughable. However, one thing I can understand about people not voting for the Liberals is that Dion is a bit difficult to understand due to his Francophone accent. While you can understand Harper's monotonous aristocratic Calgarian accent or Jack Layton's charismatic voice clearly, it's a bit of a chore at times to understand just what Dion said. Dion is a smart cookie and he appears to know how to run the government better than the others, but the way he speaks isn't effective nor is he all that charismatic. Harper has as much charisma as that of a sloth, but he got re-elected? He has proven that he can't run the government all that well, but he got re-elected? I was hoping that Layton would take office, he's a much better speaker than the others and his position seems noble, but he didn't have quite a chance anyway, now did he?
Thanks, and no thanks lazy voting-class citizens. You didn't help at all, so if you bitch about the results, you don't have a fucking say. My vote to the NDP was worth it even though it didn't result in them getting elected; but it was worth it for the effort alone. So many people are lazy or stubborn enough to think that voting is a waste of time or whatnot, but these same people have the guts to complain about it after wasting the chance they had to make a difference. Now I know how Greenpeace activists feel, when people aren't doing enough to make a difference in the most vital climate on the planet, the Amazonian rainforest. It's frustrating. I am frustrated.
Canada SHOULD, even though I know it won't any time soon, follow Australia's footsteps. Make it mandatory to vote and make a punishment for not voting. Fine a voting-class citizen and lock them up for a period of time until they pay the fine, which wouldn't be much. Due to this method, 90+% of the people in Australia place their votes, the non-voting citizens who CAN vote get fined and arrested. We should have this, but I know that the Tories wouldn't put it in place now since they like having power so much. They're probably laughing at you and other careless eligible voters for not voting against them (or voting at all), as well as relieved, because I know most of us wouldn't vote for those idiots. At least, I hope so, because those idiots do nothing for the likes of me and others making a fraction of an aeronautics engineer (that's an example). But the big problem is you didn't bother to vote at all when you had the full ability to do so.
You let Canada down. If you don't want to vote again, then keep your fucking mouth shut.
Bearman out.
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