One of the things I've admired about the overall Democrat effort this year has been the clever use of the interwebz to raise money, get younger generations engaged in the political process and bring similarly like-minded people together to work towards common goals. I've wondered how the left in Canada, as fractured as we are, could take lessons from this. Okay, so we don't have even half the excitement in the political arena, even if our elected MPs shout at and heckle each other on a daily basis. And okay, we don't have a political candidate that comes even close to having the sheer charisma and fierce intelligence Barack Obama has to rally behind. But as important as the current election is to our neighbours to the south, our upcoming federal election seems, to me, nearly as important, at least in one sense: we are facing a daunting prospect. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is currently polling in majority territy, and it seems like we Canucks may soon know exactly what it's like to have a government ideologically-driven from the far, far right.
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