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kaleidoscopic ziggurat · 02-08-2002, 10:04 AM

i don't know why people liked the cube so much.. i thought it was horrible as well.

re: dictatorship... maybe i'm naive, but i figure that if citizens within a electoral region vote for a particular candidate based on their merits then those elected officials should represent those peoples in the national forum that is parliament... instead, they're all a part of these parties which don't really have different agendas and rarely put any kind of focus on regional-specific issues... thats fine - i figure the whole game of politics is this interaction between elected officials battling over things for the good of the various levels of government - municipal, provincial, federal... the problem seems to arise when there are issues in parliament and the members of the majority party are forced to stifle their own dissent if there were any. if politician X from city Y is faced with a piece of legislature that would negatively impact the interests of the citizens of his riding then shouldn't he vote nay? but it seems to me that such things aren't allowed in canadian politics in the current climate. much news is made about the process of government instead of what the government is actually doing. before 9/11 there was a great deal of attention being pointed towards the slack attendance of the majority party members, and the self-assured arrogance exhibited by the leaders of that party that rather mock the political system as a whole. its gotten to the point where the leader often just barks things at people should they make a murmur not totally in line with party ideology [which is loosely based - just don't piss off the top dog]. the government is in a state of stagnation - despite having 3 terms i don't think chretian is going to be remembered as doing anything particularly noteworthy. there is little active debate about many issues surrounding the pseudodemocratic processes we have been witness to in parliament...

02-08-2002, 10:04 AM	#67
kaleidoscopic ziggurat Coronation Incarnate Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 90	i don't know why people liked the cube so much.. i thought it was horrible as well. re: dictatorship... maybe i'm naive, but i figure that if citizens within a electoral region vote for a particular candidate based on their merits then those elected officials should represent those peoples in the national forum that is parliament... instead, they're all a part of these parties which don't really have different agendas and rarely put any kind of focus on regional-specific issues... thats fine - i figure the whole game of politics is this interaction between elected officials battling over things for the good of the various levels of government - municipal, provincial, federal... the problem seems to arise when there are issues in parliament and the members of the majority party are forced to stifle their own dissent if there were any. if politician X from city Y is faced with a piece of legislature that would negatively impact the interests of the citizens of his riding then shouldn't he vote nay? but it seems to me that such things aren't allowed in canadian politics in the current climate. much news is made about the process of government instead of what the government is actually doing. before 9/11 there was a great deal of attention being pointed towards the slack attendance of the majority party members, and the self-assured arrogance exhibited by the leaders of that party that rather mock the political system as a whole. its gotten to the point where the leader often just barks things at people should they make a murmur not totally in line with party ideology [which is loosely based - just don't piss off the top dog]. the government is in a state of stagnation - despite having 3 terms i don't think chretian is going to be remembered as doing anything particularly noteworthy. there is little active debate about many issues surrounding the pseudodemocratic processes we have been witness to in parliament...