The politics of politics
Today, the October 10th Provincial Election becomes official. And you know what that means!
Everyone has a stake in politics whether they’re engaged by the process or not. If you pay taxes, buy goods, use services - essentially, if you are breathing, government affects you in some way.
But let’s face it, it can be boring and very frustrating to follow the day-to-day relentless announcements, especially if you’re a bit of a cynic. Or if you have lived on the planet for a few decades. We all do get a bit jaded by hearing about the promises and sometimes watching them not come to fruition. And that’s just the start of many peoples’ complaints about the political process.
Our role here at 680News is to bring you what the politicians are saying, cleanly and honestly, without throwing any of our own perspectives around it.
I will offer my own opinion on elections here, today, though. So many people say you have to do your duty to get out and vote but I disagree. I think you have to become informed first, and then get out and vote. As a voter, I don’t want someone using the eenie-meenie-miney-mo method to cancel out my well thought-out selection!
So, we hope you’ll stick with 680News as part of your duty to inform yourself about the issues and the personalities who are hoping to represent you at Queen’s Park.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I figure, the less people who vote…the more my vote counts. I encourage everybody to sit at home and watch TV on election day. Come on, you don’t really want walk all those blocks to a polling station do you? Besides, I hear Maury Povich might be doing paternity and/or lie detector tests that day…that’s much more fulfilling that spending all those seconds placing and X beside some name on a ballot.