Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Pointless Politicians.

    As one who has had a long interest in current events, I find the present behavior of our politicians to be extremely disappointing. First, I would like to point out that I am Canadian and the conditions I'm commenting on refer to Canadian politics. 

    The level of debate in our parliament seems to have dropped right off the edge of the earth. Speeches that are logical and well researched are completely lacking. Policies that are well developed and reasoned are not  in existence. Instead we get brief talking points which are responses given whether they are on the topic or not. These inane responses are repeated many times. So debate with someone else does not happen. Talking points limit the actions of the individual member of parliament to use his/her own ability to express their ideas and support their party's platform. Members do not get an opportunity to be leaders.

    The present government has to take most of the responsibility for such  low level of performance. The govt. is very loathe to give out any information. The public, press, opposition and any researchers are blocked many times from accessing public information. The govt. is fearful of releasing information for which they may receive negative publicity or criticism.

    Rules of procedure are treated as something which is made to be broken. For the last election robo calls were used to pass out false information to discourage voters from voting. One party compiled a list of opposition supporters and used the robo calls to tell these people misinformation so they would not vote. Some candidates overspent the limits of campaign spending set by law. In some cases the winning margin was small and spending extra money probably bought the election for them.
    
    Why have our politicians become such lunatics?  Parties want to win so badly that they employ tactics which are most despicable. Attack ads are crafted and used. Many of these ads are very remote from the truth. Tactics to divide citizens are used so that less votes are needed to form a majority. With these tactics solid policy and debate go out the window. 

    I for one, would very much like to see political parties concentrate on developing sound policies that they stand for and promote. Then the voters can evaluate policies and elect who they think will do the most good.  Why don't politicians think of the good of their country and be principled about it? 

    Most of all I would like to see some sanity return to our politicians! We are part of the process and have to come up with some strategies that require politicians to perform in a manner which follows rules and results in the success of the country.

19 comments:

  1. You could be talking about the UK.
    If possible ignore them. They speak in sound bites for TV and we all know what the standard of television is.
    Life is too short and I for one am too old to do anything about the immoral, thieving, duplicitous sods.

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    1. But I'm stubborn and would like to hold their feet to the fire.

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  2. Politics was once the art of the possible, and that meant compromise. Today, compromise is a dirty word. This must change before things can get better.

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    1. You have a key word compromise. They have lost all sight of bringing about good for the country.

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  3. I agree, and I think you should be glad you are Canadian and not from the US. They are worse here, and the amount of money spent on elections could fix all our problems and then some. It's gotten way out of control.

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    1. I'm not exactly sure you are worse. Yes the money spent on campaigns is obscene. Our guys like to brag about what they've done and waste an enormous amount of money on PR.

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  4. I find listening to politics much like listening to kindergarten kids.

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    1. I'll take the kindergarten kids any day.

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  5. I know. I agree. What can we do.

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    1. I think it will take a combination of things to bring about change. Some of our rigid voting patterns will have to change.

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  6. Colin (Brisbane. Australia)Thursday, October 25, 2012

    OMG!!!!!!!!
    Well at least, I now know that Australia does not possess the only stupid politicans on this Earth. Our "mob of billy goats" are only interested in one thing and that is to retain their seat for a period of 8 years and they are on a lucrative pension (protected from falls and lows) for the rest of their lives!
    And I must apologise to the animal family of goats.
    Stinking rotten parasites would be more appropriate.
    Ms. Jenn Jilks - as for what we can do? Harass the mongrels - it will give you some satisfaction knowing that hopefully if everyone would do the same, they wouldn't be able to sleep.
    My dear Red: I think get back on themes of leverets, they are more respectable.
    Cheers
    Colin (Brisbane.Australia)

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    1. Man, those politicians in Australia mus be awful!

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  7. Don't know if we are worse here in the US but we definitely are just as bad. I don't know who will win our presidential election but I'm just ready for it to be over. So tired of the ads and attacks and veiled promises.

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    1. We should never know who will win. There are too many polls done. Yes, the ads could kill ya.

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  8. Politics must be harder than most people realize..that is the only excuse I can think of for the behavior the world witnesses. I think most of the candidates are reasonable and intelligent...that somehow seems to go down the drain when they become politicians.

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  9. If politicians are doing there job it is hard and tough. they get lot of abuse from people...some of it very unfair.
    I like your point of decent people going down the drain.

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  10. So true! Don't think it will change though...unfortunetly,

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  11. Politicians are the lowliest forms of life everywhere nowadays. I have never accepted that we cannot do anything about it but the entire or atleast most of the country needs to unite for that to happen.

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  12. Like LadyCat said it seems to be very true--and changing them is near impossible....so very sad.

    Linda
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