election time in canada

[splinterjete]

i find it odd, on the day when a national election in canada was called, that a booth plastered to the max with obama garb was set up at a street festival to register folks for the *U.S. election*.

these are very important political times in north america. we haven't had a canadian and U.S. election held simultaneously since 1988. some of my

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[moondaughter20]

I hope you're wrong too.
But what you say sounds entirely (yech) plausible.

Maybe Obama will win in the States so we can flee south.

I shudder to think of a Harper majority.

Maybe the Hadron Collidor will do us a favour and obliterate all life before that happens.

Oh for fuck's sakes

[anonymous]

Stephen Harper didn't kill six million jews.

Re: Oh for fuck's sakes

[anonymous]

He's got at enough arrogance, ambition and controlling behaviour to equal Hitler, and his hatreds are aimed at anyone not white, Xtian and of European descent.

BTW, nice way to stand up for your convictions, Anonymous.

[queerasmoi]

Sigh.

My projection is that the number of Tory seats will be similar, and the opposition seats will change a little bit, but the distribution of ridings will move around drastically. People are pissed off for different reasons this time around.

[danaelaurm]

I'm afraid you're wrong... and that you're optimistic - there's not going to be an electoral reform so long as Canada is so close to bipartism

[punkarze]

Interesting to hear about Canadians thinking about fleeing to a (hopefully) Obama-administered US. Especially given that I've already taken the first steps towards working on my skilled labor immigration application to Canada.

Don't come to the US. Canada under flat out hard-line conservatives is nowhere near as malignant as the US on any day. The culture in this country of "shoot now, fuck 'em forever, God is the end all, the fags are causing all of our problems, and the dumber, poorer, and more TV and consumerism-addicted you are the better" makes it difficult for me to sleep at night. Even if by some stroke of luck, Obama wins, we are forever royally fucked in the US. We are Rome in full-force decline.

I always used to ask myself, "What were the people who did NOT flee Germany in the 30's THINKING?!?" Now, as I sit here and look around at the flocks of sheep here in the States, I can start to have some insight into that question.