I am trying with great difficulty to ignore the current campaign for a new Parliament and, if there is any justice, a new PM. I have been also trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to stop comparing and contrasting (thanks so much to all my Uni profs. who beat that concept into my head….) my own reality with that portrayed by the worst offenders in the MSM…
I ‘ve had little success in staying calm, however..I am sick to death of everything that the Harper Reich is throwing at us to make idiocy important, to turn side issues, petty and vicious though they may be, into reasons to vote..Instead of concentrating on the issues that most Canadians are concerned about, like the economy, senior’s issues, the health care system, the horrendous costs of higher education, and the current regime would have us applaud the worst sort of fascist tendencies inherent in Harper’s philosophy..and the worst offenders in all this? Not the PM, looking more haggard and miserable with every photo-op, not his creepy campaign director, just another temporary foreign worker with an agenda, or his Con minions who come out squealing stupidities at every opportunity..four legs good, two legs bad…
No, to me the worst offenders are the media, who latch onto every possible stupidity thrown out there by the Cons in tiny trial balloons that are guaranteed to attract the attention of so called ‘journalists’ who, like toddlers, grasp at every little thing floating by with thoughtless glee.
The difference is that the media controls the campaigns, and we all know who owns the media..and now they try to distract us with a late attempt to shore up that secretive plan called the TPP…in the middle of election ‘fever’ a great little distraction without actually telling us anything at all….
It’s bad enough that, just like the Keystone pipeline, Harper pretends to have pondered on the outcome with TPP and come to the only possible conclusion, that it will be good for us…Nope, what it will do for instance, is raise prices for drugs dramatically, just in time for the aging boomers to have to pay through the nose. The auto industry, so carefully controlled in our favor for so long, will be decimated in the jobs and after-market industry….so much for all that R & D being poured into alternatives to the combustion engine… I am no protectionist, but I do fear that whatever standard of living we have been able to salvage from the grasp of the wealthy Right is about to run through our hands like so much sand…and this opening up of agriculture grown processed and packaged with standards no where near our own, will also be dangerously out of our control re sanitary conditions…
But what does the MSM report? Don’t worry, kids, this bitter pill will be good for you, and finish the conspiracy to turn all but the 1% into economic serfs, grateful for whatever crumbs are thrown our way …
But here I sit, trying to maintain a Buddha-like demeanor, while all around me I fear that this insidiously blatant attempt to shore up the powers that be might just succeed…
Left Over 