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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:14 am
 


Rated B for biased and F for fun.

Losing Faith in the Electorate

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In both Canada and the U.S., the political scene is utterly dismal. As I survey the ongoing debacle in my own country, it is hard not to lose faith in the mental competence of an electorate that swept a flawed but generally competent Conservative government out of power and replaced it with a corrupt, cynical and hopelessly inept Liberal administration that is busy running the country into the ground. Former Conservative PM Stephen Harper made his share of mistakes, but he was a fundamentally decent leader who left the country in sound economic shape. The argument advanced by many anti-Harperites that bottom-line thinking violates the greater desiderata of compassion—a uniquely Canadian value, apparently—is sanctimonious hogwash. A stable economy is the best antidote to the spread of statist-driven destitution, rising unemployment and government dependency. Harper’s successor, the vapid and emptily speechifying Justin Trudeau, has budgeted the country into a $30 billion debt—which, according to a just released Toronto-Dominion Bank report, will jump by an additional $5 billion this year.

The report goes on to posit: “When the Liberals unveiled the federal budget in March, they projected a $29.4-billion deficit in 2016-17, followed by a $29-billion shortfall the following year and almost $23 billion in 2018-19”—a new, three year debt of $81.4 billion. On the face of it, this should have been a tough sell. “Trudeau’s first budget,” asserts the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, “is an absolute disaster for future generations & thus Canada.” The Halifax Chamber of Commerce concurs: “Running chronic deficits with no plan to balance the budget has proven to be bad news for Canada’s economy.” No matter. According to MP for Elgin-Middlesex-London Karen Vecchio, the Liberals have spent $200,000 on “deliverology” advice, paying a British consultant to advise them on the best way to “deliver” their agenda and to convince taxpayers that debt is good. An infatuated electorate appears to be buying in.

Trudeau didn’t stop there. He has imported thousands of “Syrian” refugees to swell the welfare rolls and ensure future havoc, declared himself a loyal feminist while visiting mosques where the sexes are segregated, and installed a young Muslim cabinet minister, Maryam Monsef, as “Minister of Democratic Institutions” who, as it now turns out, lied about her birthplace and various other items on her citizenship papers. Providing false information makes a person inadmissible to Canada or demands the stripping of citizenship rights, regardless of extenuating circumstances. (Monsef claims that her mother suppressed certain salient details about her birthplace and early residency, which was not Afghanistan but Iran.) Many leftist sites, such as the Canadian Progressive (and others) blame Harper for passing an “unfair law”, but as The Toronto Sun points out, the policy predates the Harper government. Truth never deterred a leftist.

Pro forma, Trudeau has overseen a motley crew of ministerial parasites billing the taxpayer for personal expenses and perquisites. His latest gambit is to impose a pan-Canadian carbon tax to combat “global warming” that will cost the average Canadian in the vicinity of $2,500 over the next few years in excess of the depredations of an already punitive tax structure. But plainly, the fast-expanding debt has to be serviced and the “Syrian” influx paid for. The fact that global warming is non-existent—as anyone who has troubled to do a little serious research would recognize—counts for nothing; the Warmist scam is too lucrative and politically expedient to be abandoned.

The catastrophic farce in which we are now embroiled should have been glaringly predictable to any reasonable person prior to the election. Those who voted Liberal were, for the most part, either among the urban affluent or the collectively oblivious.

The same set of debilitating factors is patently at work in the United States.


https://pjmedia.com/blog/losing-faith-i ... lectorate/


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:21 pm
 


Vote Trump. :|


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:31 pm
 


Stop voting altogether. The democracies are done and can't be saved. Kinder now to let nature run it's course instead of prolonging the pain of false hope.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 1:44 pm
 


Municipal elections yesterday. I think Regina had a voter turnout of about 20%. One has to wonder what it'll be like in the States as their choices are asshole and shit.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:35 pm
 


ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Municipal elections yesterday. I think Regina had a voter turnout of about 20%. One has to wonder what it'll be like in the States as their choices are asshole and shit.



Everything I've read so far, early voting is busy.

UK referendum had 73% turnout, largest for decades.

A 'normal' turnout in the US, Hillary will win.
A massive turnout, all bets are off.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:35 pm
 


IL Douche could scare the shit out of enough people that they won't be complacent nor apathetic, for fear of Trump winning. As it stands Clinton ha's the Democrat vote and a fair chunk of the moderate Republicans.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:45 pm
 


It's pretty hard to have confidence in the electorate when the only choices they are presented are corrupt, lying and incompetent politicians. :(


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 5:54 pm
 


The people are not to blame for this.

Also, in that article, it's whine about "statist-driven destitution" makes me chuckle, since corportate-driven destitution is a-okay, mitigated only by the oh-so-powerful boycott, ooooo, just a hair less useful than voting is at preventing its statist counterpart.

Don't blame the people for the actions of their leaders. No one voted for corruption. No one voted for lies. No one voted for destitution.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:19 pm
 


Too many of us voted too often for the myths that led to all those things. So, yes, the people are entirely responsible for what's happened to all our countries. No blame-dodging allowed this time. Or ever again. There are still good individuals. The collective mass though? It's a sick joke that deserves everything bad that happens to it.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:40 pm
 


Public_Domain Public_Domain:
The people are not to blame for this.

Also, in that article, it's whine about "statist-driven destitution" makes me chuckle, since corportate-driven destitution is a-okay, mitigated only by the oh-so-powerful boycott, ooooo, just a hair less useful than voting is at preventing its statist counterpart.

Don't blame the people for the actions of their leaders. No one voted for corruption. No one voted for lies. No one voted for destitution.


Who the hell do you think votes for these schmucks?


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:43 pm
 


It's hard to blame the convinced for what they don't realize when everything possible is done to wage a psychological war sgainst them. Don't blame the indoctrinated, blame the indoctrinators.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:45 pm
 


ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Public_Domain Public_Domain:
The people are not to blame for this.

Also, in that article, it's whine about "statist-driven destitution" makes me chuckle, since corportate-driven destitution is a-okay, mitigated only by the oh-so-powerful boycott, ooooo, just a hair less useful than voting is at preventing its statist counterpart.

Don't blame the people for the actions of their leaders. No one voted for corruption. No one voted for lies. No one voted for destitution.


Who the hell do you think votes for these schmucks?

Apparently only 20% in Regina.

When the only chouces given are terrible, you haven't been given a choice.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:51 pm
 


Caveat emptor. And it applies as much to anyone who bought into communism's dribble as to anyone who voted for the free trade that sold our countries out so we could buy bargain crap at Walmart. If it's too good to be true then it probably is, and anyone above the age of 15 who looks at Our Team as heroes deserves to have their face slapped.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 7:02 pm
 


No one has the time of day to truly learn and know every evil behind a product on a shelf, and much information is entirely unknown and deliberately hidden, or explained in purposefully misleading ways (hence "psychological war") which effectively negates any chance at "caveat emptor" convincing companies and politicians alike to forgoe self-empowerment at the detriment of society. Because they can easily lie and convince their customers/voters.

When you go buy a t-shirt, are you immediately aware of what slaveshop it was made in, how little the children working there are paid? Or did you have to go find that sparse information elsewhere, from groups who themselves struggle to obtain that information?

When the people know their options are shit, I expect them to abstain. When they've been convinced through malicious effort that the options (or a option) isn't complete shit, I'm not surprised to see them choose that option. But that doesn't in the slightest suggest that they knew or were given the option to know that that option was shit. So I don't blame the people.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 7:06 pm
 


Some also see even less of a choice, as you see Trump, where the idea is that Clinton is bad, but Trump is a risk against our life. Or if you need to buy clothes, but have little in the way of money, you're going to end up with some shirts made by children.


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