Plausible Deniability

 So we have spent another half-billion taxpayers' dollars on another in a long series of public performances we euphemistically call elections here in Canada and what did we get? A banker. Number 5 on a Yahoo list of least respected occupations in Canada: banker. But I don't need Yahoo to tell me, I KNOW we don't trust bankers. Why would ANYBODY after what we learned in 2008? There are movies about it! Bankers are scum! They CHEAT people. Every one of them should be approached with the lack of eye contact and primal fear with which you'd slink up to THIS guy:

What is this guy? He's a carney. What is THIS guy?

He too my friends is a Carney. Of course you know I'm not talking about the OTHER figure in the picture who should never under any circumstances be sidled up to EVER... I'm talking about the person receiving the gift from the Orange Menace to the south. What IS that gift? Why, it's the Canadian federal election, that's what it is. I've explained it in the blog before but for those of you who don't trust my predictions even though they have proven to be right, here's another article you can read about how fighting the tariffs and takeover threats to the south has transformed another election loser into PM in a very short time. See the third guy thinking, "Did I leave the iron on?" That's Pierre Poilievre. He's the Conservative candidate who had this election in the bag before the "Canada Strong" defense against Trump narrative was manufactured. He (and of course Canada) is the loser in yesterday's election. 

Are Canadians so easily fooled? Well, if, like the household in which I currently am staying, you have any misplaced faith in Canadian elections, then even YOU have to admit they are no indication at all of what the country thinks. First of all about 73% of the seats are in two provinces: Ontario and Quebec. So election results tend to reflect how THEY voted - nothing more. But to even believe election results reflect how the people of our two dominant provinces THINK is wishful thinking at best, brainwashing at worst. Elections aren't real folks and as with most things (because there is a magnifying glass on everything they do) Americans give us the best examples of this. Watch the documentary called 537 Votes about the 2000 "vote" in America. Gore won, Bush lost but for 4 years the whole country acted like their democracy wasn't completely eviscerated. 

We already have an election vote collector from an important Ontario riding called Durham reporting that he saw CTV televising a Liberal victory in that riding before he or any of the other official election workers had even submitted their votes for counting. Is this dude lying? Probably not. Should we be surprised? Probably not. But like those who believed in Gore 25 years ago, people who believe this dude more than the election results will eventually be spun into lunatics and conspiracy theorists. 

Add to the inexplicably unrepresentative set-up and the ease with which our voting system can be manipulated, the most consistent result of Canadian elections - the fact that what voters want is never what the candidates offer and even if it appears as a small part of their platform, it is almost always what they do NOT get accomplished after being elected... you really should be able to see this ritual for what it is. Yet over 67% of registered voters voted according to this report. Mind boggling! 

If I believed everything I read in the media I'd consider the people of my country a bunch of Pavlovian suckers. But I don't. I know a lot of people who, like me, don't vote and someday we may even be able to feel proud that we are not contributing to the downfall of our own country like the reported 67% of us are. For years I have maintained plausible deniability and peace of mind that I have contributed in no way to the fraud that is our election ritual here. Maybe someday a majority will see it my way (if we already don't). Maybe someday we'll have democratic elections in Canada or even (GASP) candidates worth voting for. And as me and old Plato believe, only those who do not seek power are worthy to wield it. It was one of the many cool themes in the movie "Conclave." <<< which didn't win the Oscar by the way even though it was psychically topical. 

I remain unconvinced that the person we have elected is not one of the insanely dangerous men who wanted the papacy... er I mean position of PM. I guess time will tell...