So I haven’t been blogging much of late. I’m working a new job which requires me to leave at 7:45 in the morning; and I don’t get back here until around 11 hours later. More importantly (and I’m not necessarily proud of this), the batteries ran out in my keyboard a while back, and I was too lazy/disinterested to replace them. Hard to type without the keyboard…
But I’m juiced up again and running out of excuses; so when I see something irritating (see below) I should be able to point it out for all to see and mock. Like this “letter” in the Toronto Star this morning.
Ian Urquhart hopes we won’t be hearing about electoral reform for a long time. He believes the defeat of the referendum on MMP indicated a willingness to keep heading down the same road we are on. But he missed the most important fact about last week’s provincial election: Half the population were so turned off, they didn’t even bother to vote.
Democracy is the responsibility of citizens, no doubt about it. But if Urquhart’s democracy is so good, why did half the population stay home?
Say what you will about MMP; I’m not a fan. The fact of the matter is that democracy is only as vibrant as its citizens, and you need look no further than that for the cause of participation ‘woes.’ We all view our governments as impositions on our lives instead of the wonderful and unique institutions that our ancestors fought so hard for… and that is WHY half the population stays home. (Continue reading…)
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