I don’t get a lot of responses to my blog which is, in itself, a response of sorts. Benign apathy manifests daily and screams silently into n-o-t-h-i-n-g-n-e-s-s (except for a few of you and bless your hearts). But, damn………….
Running a few articles from past scribblings, however-much they may be still applicable, generated death-by-silence. It was a vacuum. The lights went out. Hello? Anyone out there? My existential angst went up as fast as the snow was coming down (we have a lot of snow right now). I exist because I can see my footprints in the snow but there was no written confirmation to be sure. Damn.
Sorrreeeeeeeeee……………..I’ll never do that again…………………….yikes!
So back to ‘fresh’…………..Alex Morton is one of my heroes. She walks, talks, breathes and lives for salmon and does so in a heroic way. She is an effective thorn in the side of our decadent, disgusting, delinquent DFO (those are just the ‘D’s) and is expanding her fish-based political irritation to the corrupt government generally by arguing for small communities and things sensible as well. She is getting quite a profile.
And so the Federal NDP tried to woo her to run for them. They may have tried to woo her to run for the Provincial NDP, too. I dunno. But she was wooed. And she almost succumbed. She almost ‘went for it’. But, she didn’t. She remained free of them. She is still an independent voice. Still a hero. You can read about her on: http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
The thing is – Alex would be a good politician but no one can be a good politician who has joined a party. It isn’t possible. To join a party means that you put the party first, you put their agenda ahead of your constituents. It is a sell-out from the word ‘go’.
To be a good politician requires, first and foremost, honest representation of those who elect you. It requires personal integrity. It requires truth, plain and simple. And it requires being effective. None of that is possible in the party system we have now.
Need proof? Look at all the Gordon Campbell lickspittles who obeyed every command who are now ‘pretending’ to be so different. They either lied and sold out before or they are lying and trying to sell you a bill of goods now.
If Alex started a new party or ran as an independent or even joined a new party committed to changing those things, I would vote and work for her.
Nuff’ said. But you might want to look at her blog. It’s popular.
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Keep up all the good writing, Dave! I check in every (almost) day. But the power just came back up. Snow! 🙂
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Enjoy your blogs. Keep it up. Like your batteries not everyone has the juiceat the end of the day to come up with witty retorts.
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I'm sure that bloging is a therapeutic way to deal with a lot of feelings cabin fever… Lots of interesting thoughts and goings on Keep up the good work. Rob
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I got stuck on Woofers.. I will restrain myself(not my strenght) from stating why that would not be a good idea on this homestead.Satyweird
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As one who has discovered your blog recently I was waiting for you to go into the archives and catch me up a bit. Now I'm forced to wait for you to forget that you were not going to re-post stuff, to read the historical posts. Dave turn the tap back on!
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