Carefully saying nothing about everything
Another Sunday night, another election campaign, another presentation of Tout Le Monde En Parle. A political leader as the headliner guest, carefully saying nothing about everything. What an image; a very careful bull in a china shop. Nothing broken, because nothing is moving.
This province is about halfway through a campaign to renew the government. There are no issues. The polls (constant, at least) show a three-way tie when all is filtered and divided according to those magical formulae that are true 19 times out of 20. For those concerned, we risk a minority government. Matching bookends with the federal level. Let’s put the motors in neutral and glide for a few years.
This evening, the middle of the three political monkeys, the one that believes he is “autonomiste”. I’ve said it before; we shouldn’t allow people that have never had a real job pretend to run a nation. Yet, all three political monkeys are proof that things that don’t work are a symbol of governance in this new century. An “autonomiste”; if he doesn’t like what is offered, he will do his own thing. No referendum… if the offer can’t be refused.
Even under the intellectual barbs of Chantal Hebert (a GOOD journalist), our middle monkey never left his cheat sheet of what he believes to be neologisms, but which are always syllogisms. So, he took Philo 101 at CEGEP. And then? I’m left with a taste of stale bread.
