In the past few weeks, and between bouts of going from one medical "expert" to another, I've been helping a friend try to win a Parliamentary seat in Davenport. No I have not yet become a member of the Green Party. There lies a problem.
I always have tended to vote for the person with the best character. The question appears in past conversations regarding the honesty of politicians. I don't always agree with this person politically. Rather the issue is integrity and honesty. Regardless of the nuance variations of views, this person would be an asset to the Parliament of Canada.
Have I voted for a person I didn't always agree with. Oh yes. I have even voted for persons I didn't even like personally. But in a Parliament of any country, to get the legislature loaded with honest people one pushes ideology to the rear of any list of considerations. Party politics tends to accelerate corruptive practice.
There is no real federal Green Party. Rather under they are rather an alliance of former environmental interest groups assembled together under a banner. It is rather a fractious political assemblage. One would think that for any group of people who recognize the environmental urgency of political policy, the individual would subvert the inertia of personal bias.
In the Canadian Green movement that rampant form of radical emotion imparts fraction. I am not saying that people should abandon their views but instead recognize that any party that functions in a democracy should within its own inner world, should itself be democratic.
Democracy functions better as a two way street. The supporter of the majority must always strive to understand the minority positions. They must appreciate the arguments less like an opposition but as intelligent options.
At this point the Green Party possesses a lot of native advantages politically. Unlike the stagnant concepts of the New Democratic Party the political potential of the Green Party has a lot of upside. Individual Green Party candidates could make excellent Members of Parliament.
Yet as a party the Greens would not make for a good government at the moment. They lack the cohesive gene. This also disables their ability to win an election. One would think that when the health of the human world is at stake, they would make the effort to unite the movement.
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Let's face it, Gord, any human who voluntarily goes to the time, trouble and expense of trying to gain dominion over other humans generally has an unjustifiably, grossly inflated ego. Perhaps they are admirable in some respects and clever in others but in the end, their judgment is highly suspect and they're also 'legends in their own minds' and relatively stupid, even the leaders.
No honorable or reasonably intelligent person in their right mind would ever choose to be a politician.
The horror! The horror!
There's a good reason most everyone in the world knows the aphoristic story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
The sort of person we elect is precisely the sort of person who'd be arguing over where they sit in Parliament, while the entire economic system collapsed around them.
As a matter of fact, Stephen Harper is a stunningly perfect example of everything I've just noted.
I don't know why not but opposition politicians and the mainstream media don't seem to have noticed Mr. Harper went to great lengths to hold the election right now, using standard political doublespeak to get around his very own law as to when elections would next be held. I wonder why he did it?
You don't suppose he was somehow forewarned (by his fellow neo-conservative Bush, maybe?) the world's financial systems were about to convulse and he decided he'd best try for his Majority government before that happened? Nah! He wouldn't cripple our government by launching an election on the cusp of a financial meltdown, just to keep alive his fleeting hopes of becoming King of Canada for five years, would he?
Damned right he would! From his perspective events, unfortunately, overran him.
When it comes to 'follytics', the Greens are mere amateurs.
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