Very conflicted in my emotions about the election. Some very competent opponents … but politics has degenerated. Partisan politics and ideological positions seem to banish common sense. Sound clip this and photo op that.

One leader who dominates with unrighteous dominion, another leader who tries to reform a corrupt old boys club but is ineffectual and a dreamer whose policy is pie in the sky I can solve all our problems overnight. Plus one very sensitive women who has no chance of winning in the current system.

I have problems with people who have easy solutions for everything…

Enough of fairy tale politics… with easy party line answers.

I daresay they do not exist.

Once you remove the fighting and personal or party interests from politics, I’m at a loss to describe what’s left … a vacuum perhaps?

But really I would rather we had a true majority, where the needs of Canadians are understood, respected and that there is true leadership and not just fighting and personal or party interests. I suppose with my recent governmental studies my eyes are being more opened to the need for this. I have a great desire to see people want to be involved. When things ‘go bad’ suddenly everyone freaks out and wants to blame someone, but are happy to sit back and let whatever happens happens, without really understanding the process, in times of prosperity and plenty. We need to be involved, keep our representatives accountable and remember that though we may not all agree on every issue, what is important is that Canada remains free and we remain aware and involved. If we allow others to make those decisions for us, we can quickly lose that. There really isn’t room for complacency anymore and unfortunately the majority of Canadians are either complacent or feel their voice doesn’t count…that change is hopeless, so why try?

I think it’s interesting that the talk is ‘what will we do about all these people that don’t vote??!’

The fact is, you can’t MAKE people get interested. You can’t make them get informed. Just like I can put my kids in bed but I can’t MAKE them go to sleep. I can put food in their mouths but I can’t MAKE them swallow.

To MAKE people vote, to me, goes against a fundamental principal of democracy.

The fact is, it is impossible to get involved with and informed about all the things in life that are important.

Would I like more people to get involved and vote? Yup
And I would like more parents to get involved with their children’s education.
I would like more people to come to my book club.
I would like more members to be good examples.
I would like more women to get involved with what’s going on with Enrichment in our ward.
I would like more people to come to the EQ activities my husband works so hard on.

But every person I know has a long list of things that are worth causes that they probably could/should get involved with – but for one reason or another they don’t.

That’s just life.

I go to the Parent Council meetings at my kid’s school with a handfull of other parents. That small groups has made a number of decisions that affected ALL the parents in the school. We can’t MAKE The other parents get invovled….they just get what they get when they don’t come and make their voice heard. A couple years ago the board was considering closing the school…and man, did we have packed meetings! Now the threat of closure is over and we’re back to the same small group.

That’s just life.

Personally, I’m pretty happy to have most people stay home. Then I can go vote and be more likely to get what I want. LOL

No one is expected to support any party over another (in spite of what some members might think).