O Canada, Glorious and Complacent.

To start this rant I want to say this - I have been frustrated for some time with Canada's system and I truly believe we are not the enlightened nation we think we are - in fact I think we are beneath the States in many respects. I also am not a politician or think I have some new idea that could change the world or something. I am just frustrated.

I will start by saying this: being a Liberal or Conservative should mean you believe different things and have different policies, etc. This, however, is really not the case in Canada from what I can tell - it's just either side bitching and complaining about who's in power and how now they can run it better so then they get voted in, fuck up the country for however many years until Canada is like "oh, yeah we have another side" and then the vote switches.

At least in the States there is a difference. I am sick of the "I hate America" people thinking they are enlightened or something. If you hate them so much, gather a bunch of your America hating friends and burn down the Whitehouse. We have done it before. Or if there is enough of you, change Canada's government into something better. Whatever it is, at least you will be doing something instead of doing what Canadians do best - bitch and whine and sit and talk and get nowhere. We say how great we are when really we are worse then the States because we don't even have a democratic government TO BE corrupted - when we vote, someone is put into power who doesn't even have a "majority" vote (what the fuck, if they win shouldn't they WIN?) and then they can call other elections randomly? Or suspend parliament?!??!

If the Obama election showed us anything it was the importance of the youth vote. Kids in Canada not only don't care about politics but don't understand it. I don't pretend to understand it fully either. And you can blame this on Twilight, video games and other bullshit like that - but it's not that the kids are stupid and are like the fat people in WALL-E. I ask, why should they care? When it's 2 old dudes who if you vote for them, don't do anything anyways, and usually are just saying how the other side is shitty at what they are doing, I don't even care and I WANT to care. I think a lot of kids WANT to care but there's nothing there to care about. Obama gave the American kids hope and they came out in record numbers to vote. Canada could be so much greater then it is but we are like an indecisive, crippled, spoiled rich kid, who thinks we are so much better then other countries because we have gay marriage and lots of immigrants. Both aren't bad things but by no means give us the right to be a "holier then thou" country.

In conclusion, I am not advocating the States as the greatest country in world or whatever. All I am saying here is that, before we make fun of Bush for mixing around his words, we should look at our country and realize that it has it's own, much BIGGER problems. We can point and make fun of the States all we want but bottom line is, when they vote someone gets into power for 4 straight years, make's decisions and leads the country. In Canada we don't even have that.

MK