Must be nice to live outside of the US. Many (dare I say "most"?) Americans will argue that people making millions of dollars a year do not deserve to pay any more than they do now...even when they themselves are under the poverty line.
And people wonder why I dislike this country
Fucking teabaggers. Those guys should be in an insane aslyum. (And yeah, I do follow american politics a bit. Seeing as you guys are our big neighbour, it does tend to make some difference here.) I like to see myself as a North American first, and a Canadian second. Sometimes I truly wish I could vote in the American elections as well.
To be fair, I'd much rather live in the US than Russia, or China, or a good portion of the world, for that matter. I just think that maybe some of the socialist ideas (NOT communist, and not what people are calling socialist, but the REAL socialist ideals) are good. I think that there should be a much smaller distance between how much the rich earn, and how much the poor earn. I mean, even here in Canada, the politics are retarded.
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And Canada has it's share of retarded political shit too. I'd love to see our NDP party get some real power, but like hell that's happening any time soon. Every time the conservatives fuck up, people vote liberal, and when the liberals fuck up, they vote conservative. Nobody ever seems to realize that the NDP would probably fix most of the crap people are complaining about. We're practically a fucking 2 party system, thanks to how retarded Canadians seem to be.
It bothers me that even here in a place that is known for being socialist, it seems like idealism takes a back seat to the ridiculous posturing, and preening that is politics. And what's worse, we don't even vote "for" our ideals, we always seem to be voting "against" whoever fucked up last. One year the liberals are caught misusing money, so the conservatives end up in power, and then a couple years later, they get caught, so the liberals are back in power. And what's worse, our conservatives are far more conservative now than they were a generation ago, thanks to the crazy reform party taking over. It's like if the teabaggers took over the republican party :/ But we have an alternative (well, a couple, but the only one that matters is the NDP). A lot of my friends, and even my brother voted for them (I voted liberal because I knew damn well that one election wasn't gonna suddenly see the NDP winning enough seats to be in power, and I'd much rather get Harper and his cronies out of power) but it seems that outside of the young generation, the NDP isn't getting nearly enough votes to matter. It's sad, when so many people want change, and refuse to vote for the one party that would actually bring some change...
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Yeah, I could write a pretty large essay on this shit. We still have our fair share of retarded people. We might be more liberal than the states, but there are still crazy bastards like the teabaggers here (the conservative party is now full of them).
