I Didn’t Vote For A Coalition Government!!! Hyuck!
A message to the retards among the right: Stop saying things like: “No one voted for a coalition government!” Or, “I don’t remember a coalition being on the ballot.” Or, “Canadians didn’t vote for this. It’s undemocratic.”
A coalition government WAS ON THE BALLOT! Perhaps you missed it when YOU voted for it? You dolts!
Every single person in Canada who cast a ballot in the last election voted for a coalition government — if that’s what we end up with by the rule of parliamentary procedure. By casting a vote, you are giving your support to the political system in which you are voting. If that system then, through the letter of its procedural law, forms a coalition government, it does so with YOUR FULL SUPPORT.
Understand? If you voted Conservative in the last election, and the Canadian parliamentary procedure, carried out within the terms that YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT BEFORE VOTING, now winds up with a coalition government, then YOU VOTED FOR A COALITION GOVERNMENT! I don’t know why that seems so hard to grasp for so many people on the right.
If you were adequately informed regarding the workings of the system you were voluntarily supporting by casting a ballot, then you’d know that such an outcome was a possibility. If you don’t like that, then you shouldn’t have given your support to the system — plain and simple. You can’t eat your cake and have it too – no matter what line of B.S. any Conservative radio talk show host, that you’ve given power to do your thinking and form your opinions for you, tells you.
Do you want to talk about what’s “undemocratic”? Undemocratic is saying “I’ll support this democratic system just so long as it works out in my favour.” Democracy doesn’t work like that. I swear that you right-wingers are like a big group of nine year olds! As long as the game is going your way, everything is fine. As soon as you find yourselves down by a few points you want to take your ball and go home. Grow up for Pete’s sake!
It’s convenient how so many on the right now seem to forget that Harper, in 2004, as the leader of the opposition, sent a letter to the Governor General proposing that he should be allowed to form a government if the Liberals, under Martin, were to lose confidence in the House. But, now that the tables are turned, for some crazy reason known only to dung-headed Conservatives suffering from a terminal case of subjective reality, suddenly it’s an outrageous, undemocratic idea that a party that wasn’t directly voted in during an election be allowed to form a government. Right-wingers take the cake, man…. and want to eat it, and want to still have it too.
So, If you’re currently in possession of at least half of a brain, please go here and sign the petition. Then, call or write your MP and let them know that you support the coalition and our democratic parliamentary procedure. Write letters to the editor, comment on on-line news stories and blogs (especially conservative ones), and call into radio shows etc., and tell everyone you know to do the same, and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get this lying, Straussian power-monger off of the hill.
If you happen to be one of the few Canadians that is rational and intelligent and still don’t want to see a coalition, then don’t sign the petition, and don’t write your MP in support of it, or do anything else I mentioned above. But, please! DON’T GO AROUND SAYING YOU DIDN’T VOTE FOR IT! YOU DID! Saying you didn’t just makes you look ignorant, stupid and right-wing. And who wants to look like any of those things?
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So, the right has now shown themselves to truly be a group of nine year olds. When the game is going in their favour, they’re happy. As soon as they find themselves down by a couple of points, they want to take their ball and go home. And, their righteous leader, Stephen Harper — the noble man of democracy that he is — has run like a coward and hidden behind the skirt of Michaëlle Jean.
Never before in Canadian political history has a Prime Minister been so gutless as to seek to prorogue Parliament in an attempt to avoid a democratic vote of the house. Make no mistake! This is nothing short of Harper giving the proverbial finger to the democratic process in Canada.
The right in this country hates democracy. That much is no longer debatable. Yesterday they were crying like the bunch of intellectualy pre-pubescent children that they are about how a democratically arrived at coalition was as dangerous as could be to the security of this nation. Now they’re jumping with glee because our country is being run by a Prime Minister who doesn’t have confidence of the house. Harper had two choices: Stand and face the democratic process, or lose his power to govern. He chose personal power over the democratic system.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go outside and turn my Canadian flag upside down. An upside-down flag is a distress signal. I think the fact that democracy is now dead in Canada is grounds for such a signal.
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This takes the cake! I just got a robo-call from some brainless, Harper loving Conservative group asking me to sign an on-line petition to give my support for Harper’s actions.
They told me that I should sign the petition in order to “help protect democracy in this country.”
WHAT A FREAKIN’ JOKE! Typical “black-is-white” right-wing B.S.! The right in this country HATES democracy. That much is now clear and undebatable. If Harper likes democracy so much then why wouldn’t he stand the democratic vote of the house? The people of this country DEMOCRATICALLY elected the house.
If our democratic vote was honoured then Harper would stand the vote of the house and abide by its result. The ONLY reason he has to dodge the vote is because he doesn’t want to face the possible consequences of the DEMOCRATIC system!
I wonder who’s paying for their little telemarketing and website project?