BOTH FEAR & LOATHING COME SECOND TO STUPIDITY

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Fear could trump loathing at polls". Political writer Geoffrey Stevens succinctly points out the weaknesses of the Liberals and the Conservatives. The Conservatives are feared by wage earners, teachers, unions and civil servants. The Liberals are loathed and appropriately so for wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on Ornge Ambulance, e-health records and the gas plant scandals. Yes the Liberals do not deserve a vote of confidence from the electorate. They frittered and possibly illegally bought themselves a couple of seats in the Ontario legislature courtesy of taxpayers picking up the tab for the last minute cancelled gas plants.

Here's where the stupidity comes in. Here in Ontario we are not stuck with only two poor choices. If you are indeed afraid of the Tories and disgusted by the Liberals incompetence/corruption then bloody well vote for someone else! It really is that simple. Stop listening to this crap about strategic voting and you and your neighbours, relatives and co-workers turn this into a two way race. That is a two way race between the two parties whose hands are not dirty or whose longterm goal is not reducing middle class wages while lowering corporate taxes. Our personal taxes are the highest in the world and our corporate taxes among the lowest already. Vote either NDP or Green but get out and vote. What an appropriate slap in the face of the business as usual parties.

If enough people vote other than Liberal or Conservative then we could actually have a legislature where four parties have significant representation. Cooperation and comprimise might rule the day versus the worst case scenario of either a Liberal or Conservative majority. I could happily live with four parties each having between 25 and 30 seats in the Ontario legislature.