Re: Obama V: For Vendetta
The links we cross-post here are a public service. Without them a lot of folks here would literally never see anything that risked harming their eyes with a contrary opinion.
It was refreshing to be in the Great White North where you couldn't predict exactly the way a story would be spun within 3 seconds of turning on a station. That's almost certainly not because they don't do it, but just because I'm not familiar enough with their politics.
From brief exposure:
Conservatives (Tories, current Harper govt) -- post-rightwing fence sitters who are in office because
Liberals (Chrétien) -- Clintonista pragmatists got thrown out for various scandals and a general disassociation with any governance philosophy other than staying in power By Any means Necessary.
Canadian Alliance -- the immediately prior incarnation of the conservatives -- was the closest Canada has ever gotten to a GOP-like guns and gays fetishist party, with some nativism thrown in for seasoning.
The Frenchies are still doing their thing.
The NDP is a watered-down woulda coulda shoulda lefty party with no hope of winning anything.
Other observations:
Everybody hates Ottawa the way we hate DC.
Alberta is politically Texas.
BC is just an extension of the SF-Portland-Seattle-Vancouver corridor. They could break away and become Barristastan.
The Maritimes are politically and socially West Virginia. The Newfies are the part of West Virginia that even West Virginians think is crazy.
Nunuvut is that reservation in Oklahoma where all there is to do is huff aerosol from zip lock bags, except it's 30 below, as large as Northern Europe, and probably has as much oil under it as Saudi Arabia. And half the fresh water in the world. My vote for the 2200 super power is a polar confederation of Nunuvut, Scotland, Greenland and the Hanse Cities. By then it will be sub-tropical.
