Aaaaargh! Minority Liberal Governments Distress Me

I have nothing clever to type here. I'm mildly disgusted with my fellow Ontarians, but that's nothing new.

The results, as I type, show the Liberals with a minority government, in alliance with the NDP. I can think of worse things to happen, but most of them involve the return of Lucifer, rains of fire and brimstone, and cats and dogs living together.

It is instructive to observe just how easily Ontarians are provoked into voting on the basis of fear and innuendo, rather than on rational observation and thought. Clearly, Paul Martin succeeded in stampeding Ontario voters toward the edge of the cliff that someday will bear the name of "Smashed In Head Ontario Liberal Voters". Quebec at least had the cojones to vote in their own best interests. Ontario couldn't even manage that.

In the next twelve to twenty-four months, we'll be going back to the polls to cast our votes again in retrospective on just how badly the Liberal/NDP alliance has screwed us over. At least the NDP have principles: the Liberals don't even have that going for them. The very phrase "natural governing party" makes me want to vomit. I sure hope that next time we won't be watching the spectacle of the largest province in Canada showing off their lack of principle, philosophy, and courage for a second straight time (or is it the third or fourth time).

At least next time around, I hope that Ontario voters will recognize that changing the governing party is necessary and healthy for a modern country, and that electing a government from slightly more to the right is not allowing Fascism or worse to enter into the mainstream of Canadian political life.

I should probably look on the bright side: I'll be able to finish the election platform analysis before the next election writ is dropped. And much of what I've written will still be up-to-date and relevant (at least, as relevant as such trash usually is).