So, ... Rob Ford campaigned that there wouldn't be any cuts to services because there was so much easily discernible waste at City Hall that cleaning it up would uncover hundreds of millions of dollars in annual savings.
Turns out that was complete bullshit.
So, ... decades of assaults on the livelihoods and resources of ordinary people around the world has produced a hollowed-out economy, top-heavy with a bloated financial sector that resorts to investing in fraudulent investment instruments, producing a mammoth, multi-trillion dollar economic collapse.
Our elites respond by bailing out the financial sector with taxpayers' dollars and imposing austerity to cover the deficits. And everybody just goes along with it.
First the Liberals, then the harpercons, send our troops to fight, kill, and die to prop-up an incompetent, corrupt, thieving, rapist, unpopular puppet-government, force our soldiers to hand prisoners over to torturers, and then, the harpercons violate the fundamental principles of parliamentary government to avoid having to account for their war crimes, and then they nickle and dime the troops when they're maimed or wounded.
And they get away with it, whereas we're slandered as hating the troops.
And on and on it goes.
And what do we do?
Oh, sometimes we form little "civil society" debating clubs. Or we engage in small, local "actions" that often accomplish nothing. Or, when we're really fired up, we have a rally and anywhere from 50 to 50,000 of us show up and chant and sometimes march and hold signs for an afternoon. And we're ignored. Sometimes, "radical" "direct-action" types smash some windows (which local window repair people probably like) and then scamper away leaving the peaceful afternoon protesters to be brutalized by the police truncheons. Other times, police agents provocateurs do the smashing, "justifying" the brutal response. And, still other times, people are brutalized just because our elites are in a hippie-smashing mood. But, the main thing is that aside from some shots of vandalism replayed over and over on the television news, or the gripping footage of riot police beating up innocent people, we're ignored.
Oh yes. One other thing stands out: Our carbon-fuelled economy appears to be putting the survival of civilization at risk. Unfortunately for us, our carbon-fuel industry appears to be powerful enough to compel most of our politicians to do nothing about it but deny the crisis. It's financed public-relations campaigns to create doubt about the science, which, generally right-wing shit-heads (some of whom can do math) embrace whole-heartedly, as it allows them to make asses of themselves yet again, pretending that climate scientists are all hippie-airhead commie saboteurs, out to destroy Christian civilization.
This is an outrage! Let's have rally to protest it next weekend!
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Yes, lets!
It's never ending. Ford is going to destroy Toronto while Harper f*cks us over federally.
And knowing how either idiotic or apathetic many voters are, chances are we will be electing conservative governments in Ontario and Manitoba.
Oh you lefties won't do anything. People could shoot your leaders, not that they should of course, and you will still do nothing.
The left are cowards, pure and simple. You will never take power because you don't have guts to get out there and take it!
Still waiting for the "revolution" here. Isn't now the time or something?
LOL
... says the ever courageous "Anonymous."
Why are you writing this crapola?
Did you fail to notice that the very thing you're saying is what I'm complaining about?
Or are you imagining that "the left" is always threatening revolution, only to back down?
That would be a stupid thing to imagine since the NDP, the unions, the Council of Canadians, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, the peace movement, feminists, etc., etc., ... all tend to be dominated by non-violent types who try to do things constitutionally.
And, finally, I notice you're not contesting that your non-left political team has shit-for-brains and anti-democratic, authoritarian behaviour patterns.
I guess my summation of the right-wing as moronic thugs is spot-on then?
Different anonymous here. Pinky brains are retarded. Look at the cardboard signs and the puppets at any protest organized by the left. Everything looks like it was designed and made by the special ed kids. To compound the stupidity, everybody at the rally makes a point of dressing like a retard as well.
Surely some of the alleged brainiacs on the left would should have figured out how to get the vote out and raise enough money to seriously compete in an election by now.
Anybody who has ever worked for an outfit run by parlor pinks knows how disorganized and disinterested these people are in doing anything that remotely smacks of work or running the day to day operations in a smooth and efficient manner. That sort of thing is done only by "moronic" right-wing thugs.
1. You're awesome at regurgitating the tired clee-shays.
2. Please do me a favour and don't use "retarded" as an insult. I've known a few retarded people and they were genuinely sweet people.
3. Re: "Surely some of the alleged brainiacs on the left would should have figured out how to get the vote out and raise enough money to seriously compete in an election by now."
... not that it's anything more than a refutation of your brain-fart, but I'd advise you to see who just formed the official opposition federally here. Which party runs relatively competent governments provincially in BC, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
4. Re: Your last point is just such a turd of lazy thinking that I can't even be bothered to refute it.
"Which party runs relatively competent governments provincially in BC, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba."
So please explain to me why the relatively competent government of Premier Selinger is selling power to the Americans for less than it costs to produce it.
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2011/07/whats-manitoba-hydro-hiding-about-its.html
OMFG!
You're right! Forget what I said! They're all complete dunder-heads!
Only right-wing moronic thugs can give us responsible government!
And only when right-wing moronic thug politicians follow the explicit orders of the infallible business class!
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