As you probably know, Canada’s left is revolting.
At the urging of two left-wing groups, Avaaz and Lead Now, thousands of people who claim to be incensed, furious and/or outraged about robocalls have now robo-complained to Elections Canada with form letter e-mails.
Times have changed. In the old days if you were convinced democracy had been denied and an election had been stolen, you would write your own e-mails.
The other just awful thing is Elections Canada is stuck in the website and e-mail era. They really should have a Facebook page where you can just click “Like” on the statement, “The Conservatives stole the election.”
Then if they get more than, say, one million “Likes,” a new people’s government would be formed and we would all be MPs and we would use Facebook to vote on every issue, and we would all be equal.
Now, where were we?
Oh yes, robo-complainers.
Here’s the problem with Facebook voting, electronic petitions and robo-complaining of all kinds — no one with the sense that God gave a goose takes those complaints seriously for the good reason they aren’t really complaints.
A real complaint has the complainer upset enough to tell us in his or her own words why they are upset. The complainer has to make an argument for their point of view.
If you can’t be bothered to do that then, honestly, why would anyone bother to take your concern seriously?
At least during the French Revolution all the lefty types were prepared to risk their lives for their very odd ideas about what democracy should look like. In fact, not long after they sent the king to the guillotine, they ended up being escorted there, too.
Their arguments for their peculiar brand of democracy came with a cost. When their argument was ultimately rejected by the people, the cost was their own head.
I think that’s a pretty steep price to pay, but it underlines an important point about a citizen’s role in a democracy. Real democracy involves things like ideas, debate and, you know, voting.
That brings us to the phony democracy of the left wing, American-based Avaaz. Their online petition calls on Elections Canada and the RCMP to investigate robocall allegations made against the Conservatives.
Let’s set aside the fact that Elections Canada is already investigating. The important point is that long ago the democratic institution called Parliament empowered Elections Canada and the RCMP to investigate when certain criteria were met.
I don’t know the back story behind the Elections Act or the act that governs the RCMP, but I can guarantee you it involved debate, scrutiny and a vote of the people’s representatives.
Just signing an online petition isn’t democracy at all — it’s anti-democracy. It dumbs down the discussion to the point of not having a discussion. We’re supposed to be awed by the large numbers of people who sign these petitions, though in a relative sense they aren’t large.
But the real point is that a name on a robo-petition or a robo-form letter is more a PR stunt than an exercise in democracy.
Original Article
Source: toronto sun
Author: Monte Solberg
At the urging of two left-wing groups, Avaaz and Lead Now, thousands of people who claim to be incensed, furious and/or outraged about robocalls have now robo-complained to Elections Canada with form letter e-mails.
Times have changed. In the old days if you were convinced democracy had been denied and an election had been stolen, you would write your own e-mails.
The other just awful thing is Elections Canada is stuck in the website and e-mail era. They really should have a Facebook page where you can just click “Like” on the statement, “The Conservatives stole the election.”
Then if they get more than, say, one million “Likes,” a new people’s government would be formed and we would all be MPs and we would use Facebook to vote on every issue, and we would all be equal.
Now, where were we?
Oh yes, robo-complainers.
Here’s the problem with Facebook voting, electronic petitions and robo-complaining of all kinds — no one with the sense that God gave a goose takes those complaints seriously for the good reason they aren’t really complaints.
A real complaint has the complainer upset enough to tell us in his or her own words why they are upset. The complainer has to make an argument for their point of view.
If you can’t be bothered to do that then, honestly, why would anyone bother to take your concern seriously?
At least during the French Revolution all the lefty types were prepared to risk their lives for their very odd ideas about what democracy should look like. In fact, not long after they sent the king to the guillotine, they ended up being escorted there, too.
Their arguments for their peculiar brand of democracy came with a cost. When their argument was ultimately rejected by the people, the cost was their own head.
I think that’s a pretty steep price to pay, but it underlines an important point about a citizen’s role in a democracy. Real democracy involves things like ideas, debate and, you know, voting.
That brings us to the phony democracy of the left wing, American-based Avaaz. Their online petition calls on Elections Canada and the RCMP to investigate robocall allegations made against the Conservatives.
Let’s set aside the fact that Elections Canada is already investigating. The important point is that long ago the democratic institution called Parliament empowered Elections Canada and the RCMP to investigate when certain criteria were met.
I don’t know the back story behind the Elections Act or the act that governs the RCMP, but I can guarantee you it involved debate, scrutiny and a vote of the people’s representatives.
Just signing an online petition isn’t democracy at all — it’s anti-democracy. It dumbs down the discussion to the point of not having a discussion. We’re supposed to be awed by the large numbers of people who sign these petitions, though in a relative sense they aren’t large.
But the real point is that a name on a robo-petition or a robo-form letter is more a PR stunt than an exercise in democracy.
Original Article
Source: toronto sun
Author: Monte Solberg
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