[KT89] Canada in Mayhem? We've Been Here for Months
Day 1,030, 20:55
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by Kilgore Trout 89
I just spent an hour writing an article about the state of Canadian politics. It was really good. Then I hit the "Publish" button and lost the entire article because eRep logged me out.
Here's the tl;dr version:
Canadian politicians are all out for themselves. Nobody cares about policy or making the country a better place. What they care about now is getting as much gold as possible for fighting and getting as many titles to put in their forum signature as possible.
Have you read in the news how Rolo is a PTOer and committed a conspiracy to take over eCanada, steal our money and eat our babies? How about the list of other Canadian politicians who took part in the planning? You didn't hear about that? Want to know why? Because just before elections, they decided to let people in on their little plan. They promptly stood up and told the government, "Yes. I helped plan a PTO. Now ignore that and lynch the CP". From what the eCanadian media and various IRC channels are saying, this plan has been months in the works. At the last minute, almost everyone involved backed out and because of a few hours of alleged honesty are not only able to avoid punishment or public embarrassment, but also get to stand up in public and maintain that they are hard working citizens who fought for great justice. Whether their motives were just or not, nobody thought to cry foul until they had a chance to gain from it.
And where does this all leave us? In a country where politicians work the media and Strategic Voting Teams in order to gain power. What do they do while in power you ask? What every good politician does, rack up titles and qualifications while maintaining the status quo. What about all the promises to make eCanada a better place? Look around, has anything changed since the start of V2? How about before V2? No, things remain the same because self-aggrandizement and media popularity rule our country.
At least some of you reading this probably have ideas on how to make the country a better place. Some of you are probably relatively unknown. My advice to you is two-fold.
1) Make your ideas heard. Shout them, write an article, get them on a forum. Go to a political party and let them use your idea to get votes. Your idea could be garbage or it could change the country for the better. TCO was scoffed at in the beginning and now it's internationally respected. Speak up.
2) Move to another country and voice your idea here. Canadian politicians won't hear you unless you have a list of achievements and on overly inflated ego.
P.S. Make sure you're logged in before you press "Publish".
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Kilgore, I want to have your babies.
LISTEN TO THIS MAN
If this is worthy of a vote, I can only imagine what the original said.
"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."
Support independent candidates, support small parties, support new ideas and initiatives.
When we become content with the status quo, we become stagnant, and our leadership loses their focus.
->P.S. Make sure you're logged in before you press "Publish". Definitely a helpful tip, lol.
I think he's speaking for a great deal of our elected officials atm
"Canadian politicians are all out for themselves. Nobody cares about policy or making the country a better place."
Speak for yourself.
Though the rest of what you said is true.
(this comment was originally before Bruck's above comment)
And yeah, probably a good number; but not all.
"Whether their motives were just or not, nobody thought to cry foul until they had a chance to gain from it."
Or to be crucified for it.
"P.S. Make sure you're logged in before you press "Publish"."
Select all, Copy and Paste are among my best friends in eRep.
3) stick around and fight adversity, too many people quit on their country at the slightliest problem, Seriously, there is more at stake than just us.
There is a community behind the country that is Canada, and that, is far more important any freakin CAD, Region, or Infrastructure.
Great article Man! Im Brazilian (ex-CP in my country, in other time when more respect to the citizens) and work in your country and I Agree hit! Power to the people, not for de LOLS or medalls
Sorry my (BAD) English...
Voted!
I'm too paranoid to think at the moment.
For the record, the theft of assets commenced after the 20th vote to impeach.
"For the record, the theft of assets commenced after the 20th vote to impeach".
Exactly Addy. That means there were 20 votes worth of opportunities to lock down the orgs, but the politicians were so busy either leading the lynch mob or keeping quiet to do so.
Have we turned into eRussia, now?
Great article KT, but citizens and their ideas are irrelevant - making personal connections within the political class and how you use them to get access to power and privilege are all that matter - our political process is just a charade staged from a back room
@hb741 - That's exactly the point. Until we are willing to bring the process out of the back rooms, citizens and their ideas will remain irrelevant! If more people were concerned about the country and less concerned about making themselves look good, new ideas might actually have a place in our society. If a level 8 n00b has a good idea, why should it go unheard simply because they don't have high level political connections. We need to take the power in this country out of the hands of a select few ruling elite and put it into the hands of the citizens.
Well said Kilgor.
this countries executive has ignored pollicy and proceudres for far too long and put too much trust in HIGH profile players. Its about time we clean the cob webs of the books of law and write down and act on the rules clearly!!
I feel like i am having Daja Vue!!
KT if you agree with me then isn't your advice ineffective? Why would it matter what my ideas are or if I moved to Pakistan. It won't change the way politics is done. The party elites control the political process and they collude with each other to decide elections. Even the "good guys" were willing to consider some level of collusion but distanced themselves when they realized how dirty it was getting *this time*. Nicer collusion presumably would be OK with pretty much all of them.