Tinkering with Minorities - The beginning of the end of the Conservative/Reform/Alliance Party

I see this Coalition thing as a maturing of our democracy. This concept more than anything else in the last century - shows that we are growing up as a population and no longer are "fearful" to elect something new.

You see Canada - the only group that fears a coalition - are the politicians and their parties.

They like ultimate power. They like taking their turns at the trough and enjoy the spoils of a majority - the bigger the better. It allows them to rule with an iron fist - and virtually makes the Prime Minister a dictator.

The Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals are so used to passing the puck - and being able to reward their cronies with contracts, jobs, and titles - that they don't know what to do in a system that prevents them from getting all the rewards. The Conservatives under Harper are absolutely fish out of water.

As we have witnessed over the past decade - scandals, patronage, criminal activity, and lies are now routinely exposed - denying these political pigs the free access to our money - they are used to.

Our political system allows the voters of different ideologies to elect members in a mathematical way that perpetuates minorities - until the politicians get it and start to cooperate. Our population has been so polarized and permanently partisan in the past that these establishments - known as political parties - have had their way with us. We are just enjoying the change up of our power and beginning to understand the actual control we have. We are now realizing that the Conservative Party is not the Progessive Conservative Party.

Outside of a minority here and there - our political masters relished the majority parliaments and their partners (large corporate interests) had hands extended to pick up our tax dollars. Publicly traded and large private conglomerates are not allowed to vote - they are not people. They relied on their money being used to CONvince a population - through millions of dollars in ads - to support one party or another. In that way Progressive Conservative or Liberal governments would be indebted to them and deliver policy appropriate for them. The Conservatives were created to rein the population back in and return all benefits to the corporate elite - who were let down by Mulroney's fall from public grace.

Promises made to voters were so routinely broken that our population preferred to just call them all liars - rather than exert the effort necessary to punish them at the polls. We became a population that simply disrespected this profession and became used to the friendly chameleon knocking at the door - and would expect - in short order they would change their colours.

Public financing of elections and political parties has changed this - and parties such as the Greens, Bloc, and NDP receive public funds based on the support they receive at the polls. This puts our democracy back in our hands - and is also why Harper wants to get rid of it.

Stephen Harper continues to threaten the population and has now begun attaching the delivery of his promises to a majority victory. This man and his candidates are running around our country attempting to dictate results by saying that the Conservatives essentially will not accept a minority result. Harper has taken up a new skill (reading minds) and then transmitting to us - the people - what Duceppe, Ignatieff, and Layton are really thinking and really planning.

Harper lies almost day to day on the campaign trail and suggests that everybody is wrong but him. He suggests that Duceppe and Layton are lying about what he committed to under the Martin minority. Harper skulks around community by community telling us what is really on the minds of Ignatieff, Duceppe, and Layton and promotes conspiracy as the likely culprit.

Harper has not yet been able to fully deliver for his corporate culture. Those shareholder leaches that raised him from college and taught him the art of exiling social welfare while feeding and nourishing corporate welfare. Harper has learned to promise and say anything to get power and keep it.

Unfortunately for this Reform political android - the people prefer the real deal - where candidates are not owned by oil and banks. Canadians prefer a balance of social and economic policy that moves our population forward - as a whole.

Until Harper and his ilk took over and destroyed the Progressive Conservative Party and then used people like Peter MacKay and Loyola Hearn to sell the "new" reform/alliance extreme right wing ideology - Canadians were not as fearful. That is why the Liberal, NDP, and PC's remained just right or left of centre.

Harper and the fear of him - has caused Canadians to kick the tires before buying the car. Unfortunately for Harper and his corporate clan - this man just did not have the skill to suck in an entire population. He is not the "man" they thought he was and when Harper receives - at best  - another minority he will be replaced.

This is a time when Joe Clarke should be listened to - and PC's in the country should resurrect the old party and return it to a Canadian alternative. Will Peter MacKay have the integrity and guts to do it? Probably not - so the PC's will have to find new blood and finally return the Reform/Alliance/Conservative party back to political obscurity.

Meanwhile Canada - we should continue to elect minorities and continue to force them to cooperate. The cost and inconvenience of election after election is much cheaper than selling our country to the corporate clan that just rendered an entire global financial system dead. The same corrupt white collar puppets that lied and cheated our markets into oblivion and have taken down the financial stability of entire countries.

Fortunately - the youth of the country and the explosion of social media - has made us sit back and take stock. Twitter and Facebook

This election is also a wake-up call for out nationals papers and broadcasters - that everything they report or provide commentary on - shall be critically reviewed by ordinary citizens of Canada. We the people are smarter than Harper gives us credit for. The old folly - Harper underestimated us while we overestimated him.

This time Canada wins.