Elections have become a one horse show of finger pointing and bullshit.
Let's cut through the bullshit before we get American-style rigged election and electoral fraud.
The NDP's largest supporter base is among the working and poor classes. Potentially the great majority of Canadians.
1. Make voting mandatory.
Put a choice after all the candidates so people can choose "none of these candidates represents my views". So if they don't want to pick the least bad of a rotten bunch they can choose that.
If voting was mandatory for everyone of age, and your drivers license and tax returns hinged on you actually voting, millions of votes would pile up on the NDP side.
The People that don't vote are those who don't believe any of the parties are worthy, and those working so many hours and being paid so little that they don't have the time or energy to vote. Regardless of the "law", most people of the working poor can't get time off work to vote, and many work late into the evening.
Right now, less than 1/5 of Canadians are actually responsible for getting the ruling party in power. And 10% of Canadians own 90% of the property and monetary resources.
It was designed this way. We are getting FUCKED.
If everyone of age actually votes, then we might be able to call a majority true democracy.
2. Give the RCMP more accountability for rooting out improper corporate payments to political parties.
CITIZENS are the ones who vote for their leaders. We are plunging into an American style system where corporates try to act as citizens and sway our leaders. Companies are not people, they should not have a say in our political processes AT ALL. And many of the companies currently influencing Canadian politics are really foreign subsidiaries. Remember COINTELPRO?
3. Ban computer based electoral machines. We've seen the problems in the states with these machines. One "upgrade" before an election, and whammo, the election is rigged. Paper and pen can be recounted, digital memory on foreign machines is not as reliable.
4. Dissallow all party private advertising. Each Newspaper can have a pullout section where EVERY party has the same amount of space. Each TV channel that covers electoral politics in Canada can have a 2-3 hour section where EVERY party gets the same amount of airtime.
Parties are kowtowing to every corporate dick they can suck so that they can afford bigger and better ads to slag the competition with. It's NOT democracy, it's Canadian Political Idol idiocy.
5. Make sure every election has at least 5 subjects it is centered around. Don't allow the media to focus on ONE SINGLE FUCKING TOPIC.
There's more, there is sooooooo much more, but again I'll move on....
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