Normally I don't comment on politics, it's not because I am not aware of the politics of today. I try to keep my comments strictly about food, but sometimes I can't.
When it comes to politics a lot of people would consider me a conservative, but I am not, I am a progressive conservative. I live in Canada and nationally we have a conservative party. In my province of Manitoba we have a progressive conservative party. Why, the difference, goes back over a hundred years. A group of people who didn't like the way the Liberal party was going and thought the Conservative party was stuck in the past decided to form a new party. The Progressive Party was the name they chose and my paternal grandfather was one of the founders. Their platform was you had to be progressive in your ideas for the future of the province but conservative in how you did it. Great ideals for how to grow a new and young province. After winning the next 3 provincial elections they merged with the Conservative Party to form the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party. These were men, (different time different world back then), who had honesty, and integrity, who knew and believed it was their duty to put the concerns and needs of the people who elected them ahead of their political ambitions. I think majority of todays politician would horrify and scare those men.
I see politicians from all over the democratic world because of the times we live in. The majority of the politicians today have absolutely no honesty or integrity in them, sadly. They show with their actions and words that their only concern is their Party, getting elected enough times to get their pensions, and enhancing their position in their Party. As far as the concerns and needs of the people who elected them, they don't give a damn. So it's simple to them, me first and only, and to hell with the people who elected me.
I have to admit that I can not understand how people who see their actions and here their words still vote for them. I believe what my eyes see and my ears hear and act accordingly. Politicians aren't great magnificent special people put on the earth by God. They are no better than anyone living on your street or any other street in any country. If other people you know showed they had no honesty or integrity and showed with their actions and words that they didn't give a damn about you or anyone else would you want anything to do with them? I think no, yet so many give them their vote sadly. In a lot of ways the world is a much better place than it was in my grandfather's time but with politicians it is horrifically WORSE.
I apologize to anyone other than a politician that my comments may of offended.
Graham
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