So we have elections coming up. Our school did Student Vote. Everyone's getting in the mood. At our school Conservatives had 36%, Liberals had 33% and NDP had 10%. If Canada votes anything like our school, we may as well just kill outselves. Canada is going to be in for a big surprise if the Conservatives get into power. A bad surprise.
Paul Martin is the only party leader who has a hope at doing something good for this country. So now we run into a problem. If he is clearly the only one who has a chance to make good change, why is the election forecast gloomy? Simple really: People are stupid. For a country that apparently prides itself on having more common sense and being more informed than our neighbours to the south, we really don't show it. Now I know why Eugene gets so angry all the time.
So why don't people want to vote for the Liberals? Well first off we have the sponsorship scandal. Well, I hate to break it to everyone - but those things are a few steps down the ladder from Martin or Chretien. So don't even bring that up, unless you're an idiot. Then by all means, go ahead and look like an idiot. I'm not going to stop you.
So what else do we have? Chretien was in power for too long, we need change. Guess what! 500 points to whoever realized that we did get change. Good change, in the form of a Prime Minister who isn't incompetent (like the other Party Leaders). Not only that, it didn't cost us an election. Saying we need change is a really stupid reason for people to suddenly switch from Liberal to another party.
It's almost as dumb a reason as people who don't want to vote Federal Liberal anymore because they don't like the Provincial Liberals in Ontario. I'm not even going to continue with that. Actually I can't even continue with this, my head threatens to explode. I guess all I can say is: If you're going to vote for a party, make it for the right reasons. Not because your parents are voting for that party. Not because your friends are voting for that party. Not because the cool kids are voting for the party. Especially not because you think the leader is hot (Eew). Vote for who you think will do the best job running our country. It's your country too. If you're not careful you could end up with someone like George Bush running Canada. I don't even want to imagine what that would be like.
On a related note, Conservative Party is a right-wing party, like the Republicans of our neighbours to the south, albeit a little more moderate. Liberal is moderate left-wing, something like the Democrats of our neighbours to the south. I like many of us like to compare us to the U.S. and how we're far superior, so: Clinton, Democrats - won 2 terms, created surplus (as opposed to debt), involved in many peacekeeping operations and talks. Bush, Republicans - won last term, turned surplus into huge debt, involved in Iraq war, prisoner abuse/torture. OH LOOK! Ontario Liberals have NOTHING TO DO with federal Liberals! The names are the same, because the fundamental beliefs are similar. That said, I think we should look at the big picture - the world we live in. Do we want a government who is partial towards the Bush administration or against them? Take a wild guess at which party would support Bush. A wild, wild guess. This vote has a huge impact on world peace and how the world is run, it's not as small as we think.
AH AH AH! POLITICS! Politics makes me want to jump off a bridge that is two centimetres above the ground so that I don't die a horrible death but may want to make an English teacher jump off a really really tall bridge above in space because of my horrible horrible run on sentence WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
um... vote Green? I'd care more if I actually could vote.