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Originally Posted by Pastiche
Yup, proving my point that parties and leaders act to achieve or secure power. There's kind of a sublime reassurance to that type of behaviour as it creates predictability in the system and helps to explain alot of behaviour.
How many people around here were up in arms when Stephen Harper dropped the writ in clear violation of a law that he passed? Probably very few because in this case the political party that many agree with was going for power. However, one thing is clear, Ignatieff isn't breaking any laws.
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More to the point, when you salivate with phony outrage over politicians acting as poiliticians, it actually show that you don't care about the integrity of the system itself--only about whether your side wins.
I worry that a few people fall into that category--particularly those that are drinking the Kool-Aid on the tax credit business, when it was in fact Harper who maneuvered the Libereals into the position where they'd have to vote it down to defeat the government.
Which I'm not shocked or appalled by, incidentally--it's just politics, and smart politics at that. But to pretend that it's only the Liberals who are being "slimy" (as if the Tories were innocent little children) is the sort of dangerous naivete that leads in the end to disillusionment and disengagement from politics.