WW2 British PM Winston Churchill once made this humorous quip:
While neither he, nor any modern, freedom loving Canadian, would actually be in favour of eliminating democracy, one can’t stop from thinking of Churchill’s quote when reading through tweets with the hashtag #elxn42. Here are some “gems”:
Did you know that the conservative party is the Canadian branch of far right wing Likud party? #elxn42 https://t.co/qgxVZDXp2k
— Pete Quily (@pqpolitics) October 3, 2015
You know what's worse than marijuana? Racism, fear-mongering, environmental degradation, & electoral fraud. #elxn42 https://t.co/2qmuhHw7GL
— Reema Faris (@rmfaris) October 3, 2015
Get and Share the Harper Abuse of Power Compendium http://t.co/enfAwDseHi #cdnpoli #elxn42 pic.twitter.com/dnBLoyCvAV
— The Tyee (@TheTyee) October 4, 2015
I thought you had to be both mentally competent and literate to vote – how did these zombies slip through the cracks?
Yes, life is good. Survival is so easy that even those who actively try to stop those who feed, clothe, heat, and provide for them can life a lifestyle better than kings 100 years ago did.
A heartfelt thanks to those who go to work to produce and produce the bounty that enables brain-dead morons like the quoted posters to survive. Give them an ax and a handful of seeds, and their line would be doomed.
There is no chlorine in the gene pool. Be wary of the scum in the shallow end.
I’ll take Harper’s past, and his future, against these fact free loons anytime.
Re: Fact free loons.
What choices do we have?? Give out IQ tests prior to the election?? Even a Mensa could gravitate to the left if it looks good enough? Who knows–maybe we’re all wrong and the right system has yet to be invented!
Enjoy my favorite cartoon. (This became popular when Fax cartoons were the craze.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremystockwell/3921824472/in/gallery-tirsoemiliano-72157624611653700/
Thank you! I’ve been lamenting today the extraordinary display of stupidity on my social media this weekend. Apparently I have a lot of friends and acquaintances to my left. And almost all of them post silly fact-starved memes, left-wing quarter-truth talking points, and some outright lies. I just hope this isn’t indicative of the lack of depth of thought out there in general.
The HDS is really ramping up, too. He’s by no means perfect but this weekend I seriously saw him called a nazi and a fascist. Jesus take the wheel.
Churchill: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” (from a House of Commons speech on Nov. 11, 1947)
The loon remark was directed at statist politicians and their sycophantic apparatchiks in the media and the bureaucracy.
As for the Canadian public, they are certainly capable of a political brain fart, witness the continual election of the ON Grits, easily the most incompetent government in Canadian history. Add to that the election of Notley in AB. The danger of voters is when they’re spectacularly wrong. I don’t want this to be one of those times so exhort Mr Harper to take the offensive in this election by representing himself as the only truly competent candidate for PM, and tell the slurring sliming Harper rabids to go screw themselves. I recommend he read this Diane Francis article and act on its sentiments:
“Why Stephen Harper’s opponents are critics, not contenders. These two are auditioning for a seat on a city council, not as a leader who can steer a nation-state through the shoals of a global economy with many moving parts. Their criticisms of Harper’s management is like blaming a firefighter for the three-alarm blazes that he has been battling.”
http://business.financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-why-stephen-harpers-opponents-are-critics-not-contenders
Trudeau isn’t fit to wear Harper’s shoes yet he arrogantly wags his finger at Harper claiming he “isn’t doing enough.” What he isn’t doing enough of is the only thing Trudeau knows: how to spend more and more taxpayers’ present and future dollars. Just like his daddy who would once sported a $144billion deficit, adjusted for inflation, and started Canada careening into the debt wall, which incidentally was stopped by the raising of debt alarms by Preston Manning and yes, Stephen Harper.
“Yes, life is good. Survival is so easy that even those who actively try to stop those who feed, clothe, heat, and provide for them can life a lifestyle better than kings 100 years ago did.”
Indeed. Never has so much been owed by so many to so few.
“The NDP have the most fiscally responsible record of any federal party…”
Because the NDP has never formed a federal government.
My proposal for a constitutional amendment.
Set up an independent body to produce a list of questions on the constitution (practical not ‘lawyerese’ – eg which level of govt has the responsibility for education), current events, economics, Paraliamentary procedure (eg how is a law passed? what are the three branches of govt?), geography, Canadian history, and such. Several thousand of them, regularly updated.
When you go to vote, you will be taken to a computer into which you enter your SIN. The computer then gives you a quickie test based on the list of questions, randomly generated.
If you pass, the computer immediately spits out your ballot, you are directed to a booth and mark your ballot.
If you fail, a loud bell rings to emphasize your failure, you get no ballot and $250 gets automatically added onto your next income tax bill.
Arrangements could be made for the blind, etc.
The sophistry of modern left politics combined with the anti-intellect motives of socially engineered educating have produced generations of the least informed or dis-informed voter ever. Political opportunists play to this lowest common denominator and morbidly stupid self destructive politics are peddled to this low info voter. Democracy hinges on making an informed responsible choice – once that informed, civilly responsible vote is removed you have mob rule.
You would have to spend decades educating a few generations to undo this danger to democracy. The quick fix is to have a voter competency test – a fitness test as it were. We have background checks on buying a gun why not for a right to vote as a ballot is as dangerous as a gun if used incorrectly.
Decades to undo?
I figure the coming collapse of the monetary system will do wonders to “educate” or reeducate the minority deluded.
The majorly deluded will still be proclaiming the coming socialist Utopia and human caused global warming as the crops fail due to a cooling cycle and the cannibals roast them on a spit.
The University of Hard Knocks seldom misses educating a sap.
The great Oscar Wilde once offered this great zinger of his own:
“The brotherhood of man is no mere poet’s dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.”
Whenever I read the comments of the people who post here I have to agree with W.C.
So deign to offer us one of your more insightful comments Dave, or is sophomoric sniping the apex of your intellectual thought process?
We’re willing to listen and learn Dave.
I thought if something wasn’t said on Twitter it didn’t count?