It feels like we’ve been through the longest political campaign ever. First, we had the provincial campaign, then the federal campaign. It’s getting hard to remember when there wasn’t someone looking to get us to vote for them.
But we are finally at the end.
It gets tiresome. At least for us. For those running, they look at it as something that happens every few years that maybe allows them to keep their job. For the rest of us, it gets to be a bit much.
It’s not the promises. Most of us have been through this often enough we know better than to get our hopes up. Sure. Some of these things may get accomplished. And there will be many excuses why others don’t. But that’s the way politics seems to go.
What bothers me is the negativity. At some point in the past, we stopped talking about what political parties are going to do for us and started focusing on what other parties are going to do to us. It became less of “vote for us and we’ll do this” and more of “don’t vote for them or they’ll do this other thing”. I hate that. I want to vote for something, not against everything else.
So I’ll be very happy when this is all over.
I have no idea what the outcome will be. Polls are hard to figure out. At one point, I thought I was one of the few who lied to polls. I would make up random answers just to mess with them. Now I think everyone does something similar. We lie to those taking polls, then we’re surprised the polls are so far off.
So we’ll just have to wait until everything is counted to find out how things go.
But the important thing is to get out and vote. You can say it doesn’t matter, but it really could. It could possibly make a difference. So best to get out and mark your X.
If nothing else, maybe we can put an end to all this for a few years. Then we can get back to only hating the government at tax time.
