April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

Anger, Resentment & Politics

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The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ~Mark Twain

Life has intervened lately on my ability to read and/or blog as often as I would like. However, I have reached a state of anger and resentment of the whole political process that I simply must vent.

It would appear that the concept of democracy has all but been lost.

The current Harper Government™ seems to have confused being elected by a modest number of people with absolute right to mob rule. Further evidence of the need to reframe our current process. The lack of will shown by the other parties to partake in any form of fight against this Bush wannabe is an outrage. They are all, as modern day Nero’s, fiddling while all our hard won rights and cherished freedoms burn.

Speaking frankly as a voter, a citizen, a woman, A CANADIAN, I really don’t give a rat’s furry ass how your poll numbers look. Want better poll showings? DO SOMETHING! SAY SOMETHING!

Prove you are there to do more than warm seats and gather pensions.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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  1. Thank you April. I am sick and tired of all opposition parties being led by poll numbers. Harper has a minority and yet we would never know it by the way Parliament is behaving.

  2. Gawd, I hope our “modern day Neros” are reading this, Debra! I’ve seriously had it with the lot of ’em, lately. đź‘ż

  3. “Speaking frankly as a voter, a citizen, a woman, A CANADIAN, I really don’t give a rat’s furry ass how your poll numbers look. Want better poll showings? DO SOMETHING! SAY SOMETHING!”

    You goddamn right.

    Read this interview with Drew Weston today, thought the following quote was pertinent (even if the overall focus of the interview–and the book in question–is Southerly):

    If you’re having trouble voting for the things that you believe in, and talking about them in a way that people find compelling, then you need to find a better way to talk [emph mine]. And the better way is probably more the language of honesty and emotion, than it is political calculation.

    You have my vote, Debra.

  4. Read this interview with Drew Weston today, thought the following quote was pertinent (even if the overall focus of the interview–and the book in question–is Southerly)

    Great link! Thanks for posting it.