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I'm not a Canadian so I don't know the full picture, but I raided with a lot of them during that election and it was probably one of the saddest elections I've seen. And I've gone through a half dozen American ones.
All of them were so excited and energized to vote, and when asked why the answers (sans "Not Harper") were weed, "he is like so hot," and "he has TATTOOS MAN, he is so cool he is gonna change everything."
At least our shittiest American ones have a coverup like debt, socialism, or something related to politics. Trudeau seems to have won entirely on Hedonism and youthful rebelliousness.
Well, that's basically what voting has been boiled down to, and the goddamn Family Compact predicted that "democracy" would go exactly that way.
And yeah, Canadian politics IS pretty sad, and always has been. And they're very predictable as well. Unless a PM screws up really badly, or carries the taint of its predecessor (Kim Campbell, Joe Who? and Paul Martin Jr, for instance), they generally get 10 years before we get sick of them and vote for the other party (and gods forbid the Nothing But Dirty Pakis party gets in ...)