Dude I totally forgot
When I began this blog I hoped that I would be able to be dependable enough to at least complete my weekly Friday 4:20 post. But after only 6 Friday 4:20’s I have managed to forget one. In my defense, I made my kids get a job delivering fliers so I had to help them do it after school. But really, that’s no excuse. Well, by next week ho[pefully I will have gotten used to getting the kids to do their job with the papers and I will get’er done. Yay, parenting.
A paper route sure does give you a different view of the world. It really gets you to stop and smell the roses. I had no idea that my neighborhood had so many beautiful old trees and houses and lovely, well-tended yards. There are also a number of election signs on all of the local lawns. I should probably photograph the lawn signs and see if that does a decent job of predicting who will win the Canadian election. It will probably be pretty close. I see a number of Nettie Wiebe ugly orange NDP signs but I also see plenty of stately blue Conservative Kelly Block signs. I just have to know which political signs are more pervasive!
But truly this election depresses me. My crummy vote won’t make much of a difference, as all choices feel equally odious. We are marching towards the middle. A couple of drug policy reform activists can’t admit to using the illegal drugs that they think should be legalized. I guess that shouldn’t surprise me, as everyone is so infested with reefer madness. We have strange expectations of our politicians. We accept all kinds of unethical and dishonest behavior, sometimes I think we demand it. How else do you explain the fact that they routinely lie to the public and continually get re-elected? Yet everybody freaks out when they see youtube clips of politicians smoking weed. If only that was the worst thing a politician has ever done! Or maybe it’s just that the two-party system we are headed for seems too formidable to do anything about. I wonder how long it will be before all of the lefties unite, the way Harper managed to unite the right and successfully give the nuttier right wingers a muzzle.
The green shift? All I ever read is that it’s bad and means that everybodyu in the West will pay more taxes. That is all that the average voter really knows about this plan and I suppose that’s all they need to know, isn’t it? Anyway, I have a bit of work to do on my way to becoming an informed voter. It has been my observation that nobody cares about this election. Hardly anybody that I know in meatspace seems to have an opinion about it. If it wasn’t for the internet, I would have no way to vent my rage at the horror that is politics.
