Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Coalition Crazyness

I am one of the 40.6% of Albertan's that participated in the last federal election. I support the coalition of the 62% of Canadian's that voted for someone other than the Conservatives. I am worried by the health of our democracy due to the current level of partisanship shown by the conservatives in their massive PR campaign to tilt public opinion away from a democratic coalition. I am disturbed by how few Albertan's seem to understand parliamentary democracy or how serious it is that our Prime Minister peroged parliament so he wouldn't lose his job. I am impressed and disgusted at the same time at how quickly Conservative hacks were able to get the attention of the media, with blogs, party rally's, influencing internet search engines, and flooding talk shows with their talking points creating manufactured anger. Their points are mainly false and extremely hypocritical , but seem to be effective in swaying opinion. I worry this will harm our democracy and polarize our country. Boo to partisan hacks, shame!