I can no longer stand idly by without mentioning my distaste for comment board smut. Earlier today the Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper selected five candidates for vacant senate positions, allowing the Conservatives to lead the upper chamber with 51 seats. Already the comment boards of news moguls like CTV are being smeared with unintelligible trash from both sides of the political spectrum. One particular comment irked me. ‘Ted’ wrote:
Looks like Republican will be able to further their right wing corporate agenda of shifting wealth from the poor and middle classes to the rich. and getting rid of health care. Who needs health care anyway – when half of us get cancer or some other serious disease we’ll just ask our kids to mortgage their houses.
Well Ted, perhaps when you learn how to write complete sentences and properly use punctuations, you’ll understand how being a political sheep hinders the way people view your intelligence. Harper is no saint, but he has a clear agenda and is making the most of his allotted time. If people don’t admire him for maintaining the longest running minority parliament in the history of Canadian politics, they’ll respect the steps he took to reform the senate. Ted you are being very foolish by not dealing with the matter at hand. No one was talking about right-wing corporate agendas. In fact, you offer no opinion on the senate matter at all, which leads me to believe that you care nothing for the political process, only the subtle release when you get off on verbally assaulting anything that you don’t like.
Explain it to me Ted; are you to say that the Liberal party has had no involvement in corporate agendas? Seems to me that’s how the Liberals lost power. Now I’m assuming you’re a Liberal supporter, but you could be NDP, in which case you view both parties as corporate whores. But I implore you not to listen to the political dogma coming from your leader’s mouth and simply look at the facts. You talk as though the PM is a savage who elects people who are in it for themselves? How then do you explain Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, a victim’s rights advocate? I’m not saying that makes up for a whole lot, but don’t spew endlessly on about Harper and health care when this article has nothing to do with it. As far as I know I can still walk into an emergency room and not have to mortgage my house if I need surgery. In fact, when is the last time you’ve heard of health care being a political issue of debate in Ottawa. More importantly, health care is a more of a provincial matter; take it up with your premier. Flippantly throwing cancer around is your sorry rendition of fear mongering.
Tags: Canadian Senate, Conservative Party of Canada, CTV, Liberal Party of Canada, NDP, Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, Stephen Harper, Ted, The Upper Chamber
