OK so in Canada, the party that is the official opposition just chose a new leader due to a very unfortunate occurrence, but hey, that's what happens. It happens to be the left wing leaning party and the guy who won is a more central character... whatever the hell that means. You see these politicians have this ability to claim beliefs but then when in power their beliefs often wane in the face of corporate dollars... for some reason.
So the party that is in charge of the country, is actually a coalition of the two former right wing parties who were called the Conservatives and the Reform party... you see , what they figured out was that they couldn't win if they were splitting the vote all the time so they joined into a coalition and became one party. Then they won government and somehow manage to paint the idea that forming a coalition is an evil and savage game plan that will throw the country into sure peril, and a dangerous thing for democracy. Of course the idiot central and left wing party buy into this line of malarkey and spend all campaigns trying to reiterate that no, they will not in fact form a coalition in an effort to beat a coalition in the grand game of politics... only in humanity would things get so strange.
So the new guy from the left wing party gets elected and his first statement is that they will not form a coalition with the other party. I mean, fuck me up the ass with a rake backwards if that sounds like a good opening line. Let me open by giving my savage and wily political opponent some ammunition... perhaps there will be a new commercial out tomorrow with me beaking off on that clip, cause you have to know they will. Why not just take a moment to remind Canadians that the party in power is in fact a coalition and then just let that drift out there? Isn't the idea of a political party a group of people set to win an election? Remember the goal is to win the election, and once you get in you just serve your circle on the spoils, right?
You see it's important to win the election and when your first statement is the same statement that has been used to harpoon the last few opponents, you think you might learn. Why make that statement? Are you trying to say you are a politician of principle?
There was a guy who ran a few years ago and his platform was to get away from fossil fuel use and turn Canada into a leader in "green" technology... the idea being that eventually the world will have to turn that direction so Canada should be a leader at that time. From my perspective it was easily the most sane position i have ever heard a politician speak, and as so he was beaten like a rented mule... fell prey to "weak leader" ads and coalition fear mongering.
Is not is.
That statement makes more sense than the idea that political parties are set to serve Canadian taxpayer interests. To be honest i don't know much about this guy, who will now lead the opposition, but if his first statement is the same statement that has cost election losses to a coalition government, that forgot it was a coalition, but managed two times in a row to defeat the other parties by demonizing the concept of a coalition, because they know that if the other parties form a coalition as they did then they are surely doomed.
Kind of like playing chess and getting beaten by the same 7 step move to checkmate time and time again... How do you get that job? You get elected to lead and your first statement is a weak pass up the middle of the ice to a potent offensive player... a la Schneps to Mike Bossy in game one of the Stanley Cup final, overtime 1982.
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