I am disillusioned with the whole voting system in the US and at home. I would have voted Liberal but because of the corruption and the unbalanced finances, that has discouraged me. That party has not admitted to any false spending either. Then there is Mulroney and his pay off from a European benefactor was has been accused of wheeling and dealing funds. There was Cretien and Martin who blamed each other for false spending. Now there is the Harper government with a prime minister who acts out of interest to his supporters to the south and does little to reconcile his presence to his voters at home, in a very unpopular war overseas.
We all know where that is but the government has never justified the real reason behind it. The strange thing is that these people get notoriety anyway for the stuff they do, either through the press or their own autobiographies. I am disillusioned over the punishment process that seems trivial to say the least when it comes to these big shots. All one has to do is look at the penalty that Conrad Black has to pay. If it was an average individual, I am sure the penalty would be much larger.
And when it comes to the primaries in the US, one can hope there will be a good alternative to the leadership they currently have even though that leader is trying to trump up advantage points on controlling the spread of malaria and tried to reduce oil prices. Instead when you see the antics between the hopefuls, the fact that the voting count had been halted in one or more states to the discontent of one of the runners you can get further disillusioned that this is not the representational system as it was meant to be. It reminds me of the fiasco over the rigged voting in Florida before this president was reelected.
What is worse is how media is covering events like the Democratic primaries and there has so far been a hazy picture of who is winning there. I think race and gender are still big issues that Americans should admit too or if they are it is not getting across the border. They might argue they always have been issues that choosing a first woman or black president would not be an easy process. I worry about the general loss of decorum in the representational system, and the loss of American popularity as the people in power are still hanging on to the idea that only might is right.
