Although this farcical excuse for democracy does provide certain opportunities for enviros which should be exploited during elections, we should not fool ourselves that putting time and effort into them will accrue any meaningful result. We should expolit the media opportunities, corporate and otherwise, which appear, but lets focus our energy on the end-run around the BS that we will have to do once all the stupidness is over next week.
I cannot see anything whatsoever that would inspire me to vote NDP, other than the coke-high flash of schadenfreude which would accompany a defeat of that total asshole, grovelling corporate lackey and eco-criminal, Gordon Campbell. If Carole James and the NDP are elected, they will grovel amd be just as beholden to BAU and their corporate masters as Gordo is, but James will be a lot harder to attack than Gordo because she will seem nicer and more accommodating to the general public.
I ran against Carole James during the last BC election in Victoria-Beacon Hill because she relegated environment to page 42 of their platform. She's learned absolutely nothing since then about the importance of greening up the NDP and appealing to BC's green vote. She's like the complete idiot,Ignatieff, who has insulted and alienated Canada's entire progressive community by telling us that we just have to accept the dirty-oil tar sands as an integral aspect of our future economy. Who amongst us could possibly vote for such a creep?
I've read all the bios of the Green Party candidates, and they all look like people I could imagine sitting at my table, having dinner with my family, or hanging out at some front-line blockade. They all look healthy, fit and energized. I've met Jane Sterk at numerous rallies in Victoria, and she's the only politico who ever bothered to come out and support the Bear Mountain treesit, which got enormous political mileage around Victoria as a completely unorganized anarchic end-run around the completely inert, apathetic, corrupt and useless system.
*I do not care a whit whether Gordo or Carole James wins this bad joke of an election*, because the work I am engaged in does not depend on whatever goofs we end up with in government. I will vote for the party that comes closest to my hope and ideals, no matter how futile this might appear to those of you who think this hopeless election will change anything.
I will vote Green.
Cheers,
Ingmar
Hi all; I'm so utterly disgusted with electoral politics in BC, and am aghast that anyone could even think of voting NDP or Liberal, or even worse, advocate for either. I'm also disgusted by the Green Party, which should focus on consolidating its core constituency, which is all of us, instead of dumbing down its message to cater to the mediocre environmental illiterates of the middle-class, and the perpetuation of BAU. The BC Green Party will always get more-or-less 15% of the vote no matter what they say, so why don't they articulate the environmental high-bar and advocate unflinchingly, radically for the real Green progress that is required?
