The Rintrah Perspective

My god, the sheer arrogance of this asshole.  Does he not realize that the Canadian people did not elect him as Prime Minister?  The Prime Minister is not a democratically elected position.  It is a position which is determined by the number of seats the various parties hold.  It is not elected and, therefore, it is not a democratic position.  Its only raison d’etre is because the voters are fickle and need someone to rule over them.

But Harper is even stupider than the electorate.  He believes that having the other parties work together to acheive common goals is undemocratic and scary.

“As you read this letter, the Liberals are holding secret negotiations with the socialist NDP and the separatist Bloc Québécois to overturn the wishes of Canadian voters and take power,” the e-mail says.

“They want to take power and impose on Canadians a prime minister without a personal mandate, a Liberal-NDP coalition not one voter has ever endorsed and have it all backstopped by the separatist Bloc Québécois, who simply want to destroy the country.

“We need your help to ensure that they do not succeed!”

How can 3 disparite groups “Impose their agenda?”  How can this be an imposition?  except to the conservatives.  And even so, the conservatives may have a greatest number of seats, but they do not have a majority of the vote.

But the same letter suggests that the leader of the coalition does not have a personal mandate.  That is hogwash.  Every politician who has ever been elected to office has a mandate.  Whether or not they were leading the party is irrelevant.  Each member of the House of Commons is supposed to have equal say and equal sway.

The mandate of the politiician in a Representative Democracy, is to represent the people.  As such, the will of the people cannot be determined by one group alone.  If one group has a majority they will impose their beliefs and the rest are not represented.  If the parties work together to solve a problem or answer a question, then they are acting democratically and are truly representing Canadians.  But the Conservatives believe that they are right and therefore everyone else must shut the fuck up.

The labelling of the opposition parties as socialist and seperatist is purely childish.  It is easy to scare people when you distill the situation or ideology down to a single word.  But the Fascist Tories do not want people to think for themselves.  They want to gain a majority in the HoC and rule with an iron fist.  Because Having 35-45% of the vote is a mandate to impose your own ideology.   But having 3 parties who generally disagree with each other, working together for all of Canada, that is imposing your own desires.