don't tread on me

[ironymaiden]

every election brings out the fervent and the fervently apathetic. i'm watching the recent Canadian election and response in lj-land with fascination. i recognize my right to vote as something won first with arms and later with protest, and i'm lucky to have been born to it.

citizens who fail to vote: your lazy sense of entitlement offends me. if you would like to protest the quality of candidate/party platform available by not voting, you need to stop being silent. a silent protest is a tree falling in an empty forest. i will not respect or ennoble apathy.

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[boldfeather.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! I raise my coffee to you!

[kyooverse.livejournal.com]

... I love you.

It felt like getting kicked in the throat when Bush was re-elected. I wanted to mention that. Which is why I am emailing all the efforts of the NBJC to interface with B/black churches to blackfolk in order to get the conversation started about the ways in which the Christian Right uses us to their own ends... faggots ain't never did nothing to the B/black church (except make it better) -- why these B/black ministers and congregations would join with them over some bullshit just pisses me off... because these people ain't NEVER had any of our best interests at heart.

Also... I wonder if Canadians will continue with their superior attitudes now that their country has been Bushinized. *chuckles* You have no idea how many times I have come across Canadians who tell me that there is no homophobia or racism within their borders and who have some kinda simple response when I bombard them with links regarding both, within their country.

Ultimately, I pity Canadians in a way... because they are just like us... living in a world of semi-charmed denial and look what happened to them! Goddess have mercy on us all.

Hopefully, the liberals will figure out how to have a conversation with their conservatives and take the country back. I wonder how much gay marriage had to play in this transition... it really makes you realize how important conversation/communication is....

And no, for any Canadians who are itching to argue with me over my thoughts and opinions, no, I am simply not interested.

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Canadians will continue with their superior attitudes now that their country has been Bushinized.

I'll do my best :P

[mrdorbin.livejournal.com]

The people who bug me most are the (largely non-Canadian) ones who treat it like it's the World Cup or something, some foreign sporting event in which this is an interesting and unexpected development. We allow ourselves to get too detached from our world. For our own protection, maybe, but it's not good for us.

better than curling?

[ironymaiden]

at least they're watching.
i don't think the election results are unexpected, though. the Liberal corruption would have turned me off. (not that i know what the right answer would be - i took a survey a while ago that told me i should vote Bloc Quebecois.)

[ironymaiden]

lol.

[pixxelpuss.livejournal.com]

We failed to vote. I feel bad. Voting in absentis seems to require a return date, and we have no return date established. Turns out there's a loophole, but we didn't know about it until the day before.

[ironymaiden]

you tried. (that two people get disenfranchised because there wasn't a good job in AB, that really sucks.)

Re: better than curling?

[buhrger]

i don't think the election results are unexpected, though. the Liberal corruption would have turned me off.
the bloggers i read were surprised that the conservatives didn't take more seats. the general sense i have of the country is that people wanted a party other than the liberals to implement the liberals' policies. given the fractured minority parliament the election produced, we may in fact have gotten that...