Stupid story time...
I once saw Jack Layton at the gym. My friend pointed him out to me.
I said "Aren't you going to say hi to your commie hero?"
My friend told me to shut up
My friend now says he makes too much to vote for the NDP
Well there's a famous quote that's sometimes attributed to that racist, albeit brilliant PM of Britain Winston Churchill which goes to say: "If you aren’t a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart, but if you aren’t a middle-aged conservative, you have no head."
I actually met Mr.Layton and his widow, Ms.Olivia Chow at Eaton's Centre while working at an electronics store as a visiting student. He was not a plastic dude, meaning to say he's not fake; a programmed politician slick enough to be approachable on TV but a mother bleeping Uranus in person. I was so fascinated at one point when I was younger about the political system in Canada where I even volunteered for the Liberal party meeting then NDP loser turned Liberal luminary that is Bob Rae, Academically gifted but personally stiff Michael Ignatieff (R2P proponent) not to mention I canvasses door to door at Kensington neighborhood casually interacted with hippies. I was quickly disillusioned by the process and the fakeness of it all. Volunteers that are simply trying to hitch unto someone else's political bandwagon, patronage for a future in whatever lobby groups they belong to.
Most of the people I met and saw were all about career advancement and making a name for themselves they don't really give a flipping beep on any of the crap they spew all the time. Some definitely do and are eternal optimists i.e. doe eyed Liberals.
