Democracy lost

Egypt can tell you that freedom and Democracy are never given, they must be taken and nurtured each and every day thereafter. 

BC can show you what happens if you do not nurture that freedom and democracy. 

Democratic elections are supposed to work like this, a particular party puts together a platform probably largely based on their ideology or what they think the voters want, the voters chose the platform that they would like to see implemented and a government is elected with the authority or mandate to implement it’s platform. 

The sham we call democracy works like this the parties poll the populace and find out what they want or don’t want, lower taxes, HST, higher taxes to pay for a particular item that they are willing to pay a little more for, better health care, shorter waiting lists, strengthening the social safety net, cutting the social safety net, better roads, etc.. 

The BC Liberal have a better system, devise a platform that leaves out all the things people don’t want and run on the items that polled well, now comes the most important part of modern campaigning you make up the oppositions platform for them using all the items that did not poll well with millions of dollars of lies and negative propaganda {Truth in advertising does not apply to politics anymore} The results of this strategy is directly proportional to the money spent, the more times people see something the easier it is to believe it is true. 

We have watched the next step unfold many times over the last few years, we definitely will not sell BC Rail, we will lower your taxes, we will not bring in the HST,  etc. etc. then once they are elected and have the power they turn around and do exactly what they planed all along and the lies just keep coming (we will have a fair and balanced referendum). 

This is not democracy, elections like the last one are worse than no elections at all, at least if we didn’t have these undemocratic shams everyone would know exactly what political system we are really living under, a dictatorship, and there are those that would be fine with that to, and you know who you are. 

It is time to take back the democratic heritage that our fathers fought and died for, vote yes and show these people that we will not play this sick undemocratic game of theirs anymore, it stops here.

Wayne Clark