listen...

i often deny it, but in truth i'm a grown up. i've been around long enough to see how things operate, and i've read a little plato which has helped me understand it a bit. corruption is something you have to live with if you want a liberal, representative government.

so, we can talk of minimizing it, then. fine. but, it's very hard for me to look at anybody on the right and conclude that i'm going to get a government dedicated to fighting corruption, when all i've ever seen from the right is endemic corruption.

...and it kind of doesn't even matter what they say, because i understand that it's built into their ideological understanding of government. they exist to facilitate people that invest in their party. the point is to sell as much off as they can, to ensure private sector profits. roads and hydro were an easy target last time. up next are hospitals and who knows what else...

yet, it's really at their core of their political support, this idea that they'll cut down on corruption, in opposition to all evidence that that's all they do. it's not even orwellian, it's just straight-up, in your face lying. generations of people keep falling for it, too. i don't know how far this goes back. burke, even, maybe? it might be the most successful lie in history.

see, if i were naive, i might think the ndp would cut down on it, but i'm not. at best, we might see union corruption instead of business corruption, but they have a lot of fences to mend before they can even get there. and, it's not clear they even want to.

so, i'd rather focus on issues. they're all corrupt. it's a function of the system. when we catch them, we should be strict, but we shouldn't pretend that it's a political issue that can be dealt with through policy or renewal.