So with the upcoming elections, I'd like to hear all of your opinions.
Personally, I felt like I could compare the candidates to well-known things.
Harper is Walmart. He's been there for a while, and everyone wishes him away (but deep down everyone has a sliver of a doubt it will never go away).
Trudeau is Target. A newer, red Walmart, but still Walmart.
Elizabeth May/Green Party is Patreon. "Get us there and we'll do things for you" but doesn't look too experienced, or with too much of a plan, and much too self-important (how many of you visited the site? I mean - the top topic, right now, is "Elizabeth May Clear Winner in Maclean’s Debate". Did I miss something or is that projection?)
And finally, Mulcair is Kickstarter. "I got a plan". "Mulcair's got a plan". Yet something rubs me wrong. Also, sure HE got a plan - but does he have a team to get it done? Hell - is that plan really that thorough or in detail? I looked around (probably not as much as I should have) and all it refers it to is "Mulcair's plans".
I mean - it's better than the last election, for sure, but... still, the choices don't seem that great to me. I'm personally torn between Mulcair and May (I really like both of their platforms - though Green Party seems still a little too rail-minded while Mulcair seems like a dog chasing a car. You all know what I'm saying.)
SO, Thoughts?
Thanks for this post Killerhurtz.
Unite the Progressives
I'm in the anyone-but-Harper camp - and as "Lead Now" says, that has to be done riding by riding.
I'm very angry at the NDP-GREEN-LIBS for not creating a general progressive party. Every time one of them phones me -- which is all the time - I say "unite the left and I'll give you money." Or some version of "get over yourselves."
The PC and Reform parties did it. Now we essentially have a version of the former Reform Party.
I imagine the NDP didn't want to go in that direction as they feared they would be subsumed by the Liberals -- but the NDP is in a much better position now, Mulcair is popular and we took friggin' Alberta!!
To be honest and at risk of ridicule, I have always liked Justin T ever since he gave what I thought was a slam-dunk of a eulogy at his father's funeral. I've also been a life-long NDPer.
Jack Layton is buried a few blocks from my Toronto place and I visit him often.