Ghost of a flea

And while I am being annoying

And while I am being annoying, some words of advice to the Conservative Party of Canada. Gay people are not alone in facing the rhetorical wrath of that embattled minority of right-thinking folk in Canada who cannot understand how anyone should continue to vote for corruption by preference to the shadows and penumbras of Conservative government (with apologies to Ben for borrowing the phrase). The people of Ontario, and particularly Toronto, are often set up as bogeymen responsible for continued illegitimate Liberal power. While I do not have a textual analysis to back me up, I suspect Ontario is coming to replace Quebec as the damned region to blame for our current state of affairs.

We are meant to believe the Liberals have somehow scared stupid Ontario into accepting a sinister view of Conservative intentions. Conservatives, this is your argument to lose. If a charismatic leader of a Conservative alternative, unified for the first time in a generation, cannot decisively beat the gang in power then you are going to need better arguments than berating the voters of Ontario for their stupidity. I have called my own beloved microstate of Annexia the ground zero for Canadian stupid on more than one occasion. Some gentle self-directed humour on the part of, just pulling a name out the hat here, Albertans might go a long way. Your conservative friends from Newfoundland can offer some advice on how to proceed. Who knows? We stupid people of Ontario, and the sucking vortex of stupid that is Toronto*, may yet be convinced. Telling people their fears are irrational and that their marriages do not exist is not going to do the trick.

*Toronto is a sucking vortex of stupid due to being the axis about which the world revolves. But you already knew that having become dizzy from your slow orbit so far from the centre of things.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 2, 2005 08:00 AM

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