I'm trying to gauge the pulse of Quebecers when it comes to all the corruption that's come out in the open. I think they fall into two categories. The apathetic and the ones who are fed up.
The apathetic simply conclude it's the way it is and nothing can be done about it. So, they keep voting the same bastards in. Sorta like California and Massachusetts does by irrationally handing their governance to ONE party.
Being apathetic is a defense mechanism of sorts.
It's also a cop out.
But I've also detected a sense of anger and embarrassment too. My neighbours, French-Canadian, for example are thoroughly disgusted with Pauline Marois and the PQ. They can't stand her for her divisive rhetoric and they can't stand Quebec's tax system which in the end gets pissed away as our deficit continues to balloon. They also can not accept the attack on English and when I point out the parts of Bill 14 that wreak of Nazism they tend to agree. It's not right to bother people this way.
As if that's not enough, the punks in the PQ actually thought it be a swell idea to pick a fight with FIFA and the CSA. What a bunch of cocky little shits.
Never mind that FIFA is bigger than the fucking United Nations and that the CSA governs Canadian soccer to which Quebec - a god damn PROVINCE - is a part of. Her claiming no one will tell Quebec what do is so utterly ignorant and jingoistic one has to wonder just how removed from reality this jokers are. They're being told what to do because they're acting like petulant children. That's why.
We stand alone on this issue. As in alone on the planet.
Safety my ass.
The average Quebecer gets all this. I'm pretty sure anyway.
Nonetheless.
Quebec is on a downer at the moment. Their national day is coming up on the 24th.
Me? I'll be in Vermont - like most of us who can't digest the tribal populism that will overtake the news.
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