Dead Men Walking

The cold, miserable truth is that both our major political parties are corpses, their original purposes long forgotten, their loyal members driven away or sidelined, their traditional voters taken for granted. Every so often, by a mysterious process, one of them is declared electable and the other is declared unelectable. And we, the voters, do as we are told. By whom? For what purpose? peter hitchens, mail on sunday

Apparently, in Canada, October is the cruelest month. The naked truth of our political bankruptcy is to be exposed like a bag of sub-prime mortgages.

Written by jay on October 1st, 2008 with 3 comments.
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#1. October 2nd, 2008, at 5:45 AM.

You are not, now, going to suggest that bloggers can interject their gifts and replace politicians as they have so successfully replaced the still bustling old media are you?

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#2. October 3rd, 2008, at 9:10 AM.

Jay, both your and Hitchens’ observasions of the political process are prophetic. I hear the same sentiment (cynicism and disgust with partisan politics) again and again. It was actually a reoccurring theme at many all-candidates town halls across the nation and on the national leader’s debate. People are sick of status quo partisan warring and want cooperative vision. statesmanship and leadership in a populist democratic venue….maybe bloggers can provide that…their cyber populism certainly couldn’t do worse than either the current second, third and fourth estates,

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#3. October 3rd, 2008, at 4:37 PM.

Sorry to flog this political horsie Jay but it just occurred to me that what you are describing is “red October” …..ein Prosit! ;-)

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