Poilievre and Trudeau gaming the broken system: The not-so-Great Pretenders

Meanwhile, the great pretenders, indulge their pretensions and political quackery at great cost to the nation. They are the choir boys serving the vested interests yanking their chains.

Where governments are not truly sovereign and democratic they slide into atrophy, slovenly behaviors, and hideous pretensions bought and paid for.

The next Canadian federal election is October 20th 2025. As it stands now I won’t be voting. Why? because my vote and won’t change a damned thing. Votes are like dollars. Values fluctuate greatly in a system that is broken as is ours. Elections don’t count for much when aspiring and incumbent politicians are really competing for lush salaries, perks, pensions and a comfortable sinecure. Serving the national good or interest is not on their agenda, bafflegab, trivial pursuits and scandals top the agenda. Politics becomes very expensive burlesque for the masses and a make work project for hapless journalists.

One of the expressions I hear most often during elections is “There is nobody to vote for.” This is a coded message… Political parties are devoid of principles, zero convictions, and zero to offer. Federal elections in Canada are like a high school pep rally, fully loaded with sloganeering, promises made to be broken, and a race to see who gets to ride the gray train—fully loaded with bar cars and sleepers. It toots out of the station for the next four years, only to reappear another four year later begging alms from the impoverished electorate.

There is some controversy whether or not our political system is broken. I can state here and now it is totally broken because I have been following Canadian politics for the past 50 years and the decline and fall is measurable and palpable.

• I can remember when politicians were under paid and over worked. Now we have the reverse.

• I can remember when talented candidates interrupted flourishing careers to enter politics.

• I can remember when politicians resigned from cabinet on matters of principle.

• I can remember when leaders of all parties commanded respect as they stood by their convictions and had genuine integrity.

• I can remember when governments actually were some what devoted to “peace,order and good government”— as stated in our constitution.

Democracy is always a fragile flower requiring constant watering and diligence; but then along comes Neoliberalism and its stated goal if marginalizing and denigrating government paving the way for a reckless unaccountable corporate capitalism- the grim reaper of whole societies.

Out of the ruins emerge the great pretenders, the neoliberal choir boys, presidents, prime ministers and chancellors. Serving not the public who elected them but the vested corporate interests who are their controllers and minders.

Behind the smoke screen of a sorely corrupted media they indulge in their endless duplicities and hypocrisies too often punctuated by their inept clumsiness and scandalous shortcomings.

Where governments are not truly sovereign they slide into atrophy, slovenly behaviors, and hideous pretensions bought and paid for.

Meanwhile, the great pretenders, indulge their pretensions and political quackery at great cost to the nation. They are the choir boys serving the vested interests yanking their chains.

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