Dear Editor,
This election is tough. My good buddy Mac who is a diehard Lefty swings wildly from despair to elation and back, despite the lefts consistent tradition of “misunderestimating” the mood of the people on the day they cast their ballot, but Jagmeet can talk-the-talk with the best of them and he was rated high in the last debate. “NDP is on again. Someone better wake up the executive!”
The poor Conservatives are stuck with yet another leader who looks and talks like (and has the charisma of) a chipmunk. And I am so sorry but boxer or not our incumbent is a lightweight and he has that same look in his eyes that late night drivers see as they are nodding off just before they kill that young buck that jumped in front of them, and lightweight may not all be a bad thing.
How much of all this really affects us here in the most free part of the world? We country guys and gals are 10 per cent and the “cidiots” are 90 per cent and so we must surely tread carefully around these snoring giants who consistently do not tread carefully around us, but our needs are roads and schools, not civic/national/cultural integrity. That went long ago thank goodness.
But the problem with this election is that the moment your point of view changes, the game ceases to be recognizable. Who would have thought we would be so entertained by Quebec, and yet as they flee the NDP with such precise choreography, Maxine (who is about as people-party as a lizard) splits the darn right. And if that weren’t enough, the Bloc stages a last minute comeback. And why do ALL parties panic at this thought. Surely someone should be celebrating?
And did I mention Greta yet, speaking of shifting points of view? Yes that one. Greta Thurnberg wants us to drop everything (including our money) for just another culture-shift so that she and her tribe (young people) can live lives, and why not? Who would have thought a Norwegian could be so powerful a language. I am actually writing this letter because I walked into an office in Cobden last week with my “what do you think” question, only to be sat down and explained to (twice) that this Greta Thurnberg, end-of-the-world issue should not be taken seriously. Thank goodness! No problem.
The 90 per cent will rethink that one soon enough huh? But when I explained this to Mac, he was despondent. “You have to change your viewpoint,” he said. “If Greta has her way and there never was a climate problem, we have lost a few million buckeroos but if the climate ‘denialists’ have their way and there is a climate problem, then we are all deservedly dead. Who would you back?” Incidentally, I’m thinking of soft-pedalling this friendship with Mac. Sometimes he can be difficult.
What does Greta have to do with this election? Well she wants us to “back a sure thing” — our environment. It’s been around for a while and theres lots of horse dung being piled on without restraint, but you only need a bit of horse dung to turn that compost pile into something useful. Too much sours the ground as all gardeners know. Greta is on the side of history in that the longer we ignore her the righter she will become. Not Righter, but righter.
Back to optics. For all her brilliance, Ms. May failed to wake up the NDP executive, and so the Left is also split by the Greens. Without much of a platform, the Greens are nevertheless on Gretas side of history. And because they are free of the wooly, sleepy, urban NDP-er’s, theres hope that the next Green leader wont be a perfect percentage of all the averages of all the desirable traits of humanity, but might actually be a real person, sorta like an Elizabeth May who CAN get along with that sleepy NDP executive!
This election is tough alright. I cant wait to cast my ballot and I am sure I will know on that fateful night, just who I am going to vote for, sort-of.
Sincerely,
Simon Tunley of Foresters Falls
