Jerks

They're everywhere. They work fast food counters. They scratch your car in the supermarket parking lot. They're in the media. And of course they're in politics. Yep. The people that run your country are jerks. Big jerks. Really big jerks. I want to swear when I write about them, but somehow that would take away from the tragic comedy known as Parliament.

When did it turn out that politics became about the party and not the people? Was it always like that? Have I been just that blind that I could see the forrest for the trees? Likely. Canada's political parties as of late have been a shadow of their former selves, all posture and no soul. They never had much a soul in the first place, but in past years I'm sure they had substance of some kind. In the news the last week or so the Liberal party has decided that it would no longer prop up the government, and that it would issue a motion of non confidence if it saw fit. Michael Ignatieff has yet to save the Liberals from their downward spiral, just as Stephen Harper looks like a prisoner being torn apart by horses in the arena. The stupidity of it all is that Harper is right by saying that no one wants an election right now. Irregardless of the economic situation, the war, and H1N1, or any other politicised reason, we-just-don't-want-it!

Canadians are sick and tired of being told what we want. Ignatieff has read the face of the public wrong if he thinks an election is a good thing right now. People were upset about voting the last time, less than a year ago in fact, and now he's pushing to take power. There's not one candidate for Prime Minister that I would willinging vote for right now. There's no candidate that has a solid plan that I can relate to, or one that has the charismatic potential to make me believe they're actually human. Our system of government is decent enough to survive more than a hundred years of use (in Canada that is), and has yet to be overthrown. But now each party spends more time jockeying for position, or puffing up to make themselves look bigger to the other guy. I'm so tired of listening to hot air being spewed in the nations capital. In all honesty if there could be a way to fire them all and start fresh, I think I'd be all for it.

This is ridiculous!

When are the parties going to stop bickering, shafting one another, and look critically at the problems of the country together? If they don't learn to work with one another then the outcome is relatively clear: absolutely nothing will get solved. It's not like these people have pent up frustration. They get more time off than I do, have likely more interesting jobs, and have the potential to accomplish a greater amount in their lifetime than I do. Instead they stab each other in the back every chance they get.

Shut up. Grow up. Work together. We have too many problems happening to listen to rhetoric crap from a bunch of jerks.