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Oct. 3rd, 2008 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusI'm a political junky, and the election in Canada and another in the US (and a possible third in Quebec) have made me fall off the wagon.
I've been doing what I can this election. Severe social anxiety prevents me from doing the greet-the-public thing which is, of course, what the party needs most of. I've been helping where I can, mostly in number-crunching and a little sign-posting.
I've also been keeping up with what gets said in cyberspace and the media, trying to get a sense of where the pundits are and -- on the other side of an enormous gulf -- where ordinary netizens are. I've also been keeping abreast of the more traditional media.
That said, I caught little of the debates. They didn't interest me much because I already know the leaders and their records, so the reaction to the debate is more what I want to see. Getting most of my news in print and cyber-print, I've never had to hear Harper's Muzak-esque voice for longer than single soundbites. The drone is quite painful, a vaguely insect sound.
(His handlers have been working on him, though -- they've managed to reduce his creepy smile from a little. Now he looks like he might give off a warning hiss before devouring a baby.)
Still, I did catch a little of the French debate -- I walked in on the funniest moment where the party leaders were being forced to say something nice to the person to their left. Harper praised Layton for voting for a couple of Harper's more progressive bills (on Quebec, and the apology for residential schools). Layton said he considers Dion an "honest man."
I did feel sorry for May that she got stuck with Harper. All she could say was that he was "a good father."
I've been doing what I can this election. Severe social anxiety prevents me from doing the greet-the-public thing which is, of course, what the party needs most of. I've been helping where I can, mostly in number-crunching and a little sign-posting.
I've also been keeping up with what gets said in cyberspace and the media, trying to get a sense of where the pundits are and -- on the other side of an enormous gulf -- where ordinary netizens are. I've also been keeping abreast of the more traditional media.
That said, I caught little of the debates. They didn't interest me much because I already know the leaders and their records, so the reaction to the debate is more what I want to see. Getting most of my news in print and cyber-print, I've never had to hear Harper's Muzak-esque voice for longer than single soundbites. The drone is quite painful, a vaguely insect sound.
(His handlers have been working on him, though -- they've managed to reduce his creepy smile from a little. Now he looks like he might give off a warning hiss before devouring a baby.)
Still, I did catch a little of the French debate -- I walked in on the funniest moment where the party leaders were being forced to say something nice to the person to their left. Harper praised Layton for voting for a couple of Harper's more progressive bills (on Quebec, and the apology for residential schools). Layton said he considers Dion an "honest man."
I did feel sorry for May that she got stuck with Harper. All she could say was that he was "a good father."