The Conservative party thinks you're an idiot (are you going to let them talk to you like that?)

I think so far in my so-called election coverage I have been fairly good at keeping a level hand when it comes to the other three parties...that is, not the conservatives, obviously. This is largely because I support the whole "anyone but Harper" thing that is spreading across Southern Ontario like wildfire.

But I am not unbiased, at all, and I don't think that anybody should try to be when it comes to the fate of our country and the people living within (or trying to gain access to a life within) our borders.

So here is the fact: the conservative party thinks that you are an idiot and if you buy into their racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist nonsense, then you are not proving them wrong. And, if you are one of those people who call themselves "fiscal conservatives" can you please just admit that money means more to you than people, because you're not fooling anyone. If you vote conservative you are not just voting for a fiscal policy, you are voting for a government that thinks race-baiting is an ethical way to win an election. If you vote conservative you are saying that missing and murdered indigenous women don't matter. If you vote conservative you are saying that you would gladly give up your basic rights and freedoms to CSIS in order to stop a somewhat exaggerated ISIS threat. If you vote for the conservatives you are saying that citizenship should be conditional. If you vote for the conservatives you are saying that the environment must suffer in order to ineffectively boost the economy. You are not just supporting TPP (which has its own set of ethical implications, even is Canada appears at first to be a clear winner), you are supporting the destruction of the environment, the dismissal of our multicultural values, and the equality and dignity of women.

Elections are often won on single issues, but in voting on a single issue we quite stupidly forget that the government is not actually run on that single issue.

So, in conclusion, follow your heart, but don't let your heart make a moron out of you.


Happy Tuesday!

-J