I can't remember a time when I have been less inspired about an election. Here in Ontario, where we go to the polls on June 2, we have Conservative Doug Ford leading in the polls, counting on a credulous and forgetful electorate. Then we have the seatless Liberal leader, Lex Luther lookalike David Del Duca, promising a buck-a-ride, inexplicably unembarrassed by how it recalls Doug's preposterous buck-a-beer promise in the last election. Such policy vacuity, he assumes, will go unnoticed by the electorate. Then there is Andrea Horwath, so heedless as to how her NDP leadership hubris has hobbled the party for too long now.
I refuse to lump Green leader Mike Shriner into this morass; his policies may be sound, but his party has no chance of making a difference.
One anticipates a post-election reckoning by those who care about their parties' futures.
Meanwhile, since I have nothing but my contempt to offer, I am posting some editorial cartoons that bespeak the sad state of affairs in this province.
.jpg)
What a mess
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Anon.
DeleteI'm approaching apathy. I don't get how the opposition could have been so lazy with such an easy target as Doug Ford. Did the public health emergency sap and distract? Maybe the emergency helped him in the same way that a war can get the people behind a clueless leader. That's it. It's like Thatcher's war in the Falklands. On the whole, for leaders like Doug it's been the Tidy Little Pandemic despite the confusion and its political ups and downs.
ReplyDeleteBy playing to people's immediate needs and wants with bribe money and shiny new highways, Ford understands that the majority of voters are reactive rather than reflective. In this case it means their votes can be easily bought. The other parties seem to be following down the same path, but the Conservatives have the obvious advantage of incumbency, John. And don't forget, he gave another bauble to them by ending almost all mandates. Freedumb reigns supreme!
Delete