The Only Difference Is The Colour Of Their Ties
Possibly subtitled: The more things don’t change the more they stay the same.
The federal cabinet filled more than a half-dozen posts at key government boards last month with Conservative supporters, including one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s closest friends.
The high-level appointments were among more than 30 plums cabinet handed out in one day at the height of internal Tory strife and speculation that Harper’s leadership might be in trouble.
I’m still baffled by why people think this system is better than no government at all.
Because it’s known and therefore “safe“, and as unhappy and dissatisfied as people may say they are with these aspects of the system they still feel generally “safe” – in other words, a simple and unreasonable fear of the different, or the unknown, or the untried, is heavy upon them.
I’m sure someone will pop in and talk about egalitarian communes full of hairy footed, yet strangle philosophical, hobbits in checkered vests, before we’re done talking like this, but I’m still gonna go with simple fear as the reason.
I’m still baffled by why people think this system is better than no government at all.
I’m going to go out on a limb here: because an absence of government makes you worry about things more consequential than politicians appointing people the know and trust? This is a fear of the known not a fear of the unknown.
Word.