The Summer is Over
Well once again my new blog post starts not with me writing but with me updating all of the software that runs the blog, such is the life of the once a month blogger. My last weekend was filled with the awesome nerdyness of the Fan expo in Toronto where I got all of the Gaming, SciFi, Anime and Cosplaying I could want with some hilarious cameos from the soup Nazi, Honkey Tonk Man and the Iron Shiek as well as a list of some SciFi regulars. I’m planning on getting into costume for next year but more on that later…
Even though I’m not in school anymore September is an interesting month were everything gets ‘back on track’ from T.V., work schedules and people not being on vacation every other week. Parliament also goes back in session and the fact that the Liberals are throwing about the idea of an election is absurd in my opinion. For a long time I tried to give Stephen Harper the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t eat children and was just getting a bad wrap because a lot of people hate conservatives. At the very least I thought he was a decent strategist who, even if he did have a crazy conservative agenda knew that in order to stay in power (especially with a minority) he would have to be a moderate. He was also the best leader to be PM at the time.
While Harper hasn’t done anything I would consider part of a secret conservative agenda he has broken a few promises (Senate reform anyone) and tried to kick the opposition parties with the funding cuts (while also needed their support to stay in power) which was a major strategic error. Most of my goodwill has been eroded and now that the Liberals have a strong new leader I thought eventually Harper would be outed and we would get a Liberal majority. I was also happy to see them all realize that they needed to play nice and do their jobs instead of insulting one another and bringing down Parliament when Ignatieff took over.
So I was somewhat shocked when Michael Ignatieff said that he plans to topple the Conservatives at first chance. This will be 4 elections in 5 years (or the time span you normally find one, possible 2 normal elections) which is not only stupid it’s downright irresponsible given the current economic climate. Ignatieff was recently quoted as saying “It’s a question of principle, not a question of the polls” which is great on the level of keeping the government honest and being ideological, buts let’s be honest politics you can’t afford to be ideological when you don’t have support to back it up.
Now he’s says he won’t form a coalition which once again is a nice sentiment but I wonder if 1) He’ll stick to that plan and 2) If he does will it end up helping his cause. At the end of the day I could keep going on about this (and usually do) but the point here is that I question whether anything will change or if the whole process of politics has turned into a futile exercise where only the liars get anywhere and the few good ideas that surface are shot down from reasons that range from greed to ignorance. Guess we’ll have to wait and see how it all plays out, and that may be the scariest thing of all.