In my station here, frugally trolling the streets around the private golf club waiting in vain for a threesome to invite me to play along for free, I'm often overcome with dismay - as I step over the no tresspassing signs on some fucker's fence - that my vote, both provincially and federally, is almost always wasted on the NDP. But then, I think, - pissing on that same fucker's lawn - that I'd rather waste my vote on an incompetent progressive party who couldn't get elected in my riding if Pol Pot was their only competition, than be an American and have to suffer the serial-buggaring saved for progressive Democrats.
30 years of Democrat supported neo-liberalism and neoconservatism, unending acquiescence to the mother corporations, the continual tacking to the right under the banner of triangulation, and now, with the all those right wing ideals in shambles, you've got the Dems unable (at least so far) to deliver health care reforms for a system that spends twice as much per-capita than any other western health care system only to achieve the same (sometimes worse) results.
I wonder how many people there are like me in the US, people who will abandon the Democrats forever if they can't come through this time?
At least I have Jack's moustache to cheer on, neatly trimmed and wagging away in the House, ineffectual as an old porn star who's lost his Viagra.
