Green Party: Let’s be crazy and just go for it

It is now less than a week until the BC Provincial Election and despite the lackadaisicalness of some students I overheard in the coffeeshop yesterday who couldn’t be bothered to vote because politics didn’t interest them or matter to their desire to shop once they got a job (pathetic youth, enjoy the irresponsibility, you’ll figure it out soon enough — achhh, er, tax man), it is important to express your democratic rights and vote for whomever seems the least corrupt to you.

There is no way I can vote for Gordon “Sell-Our-Rivers” Campbell and the BC Liberals. And the NDP are about as inspiring as dry toast (Time for a party re-branding, call me if you need help :). Independents; I’m glad they exist, but really.

What’s left then is the Green Party. I know, you think they are a one-trick pony and are ill-prepared to handle the complexities and vicissitudes of the real world, but if there was ever a time to give them a chance it is now.

Imagine, with all the eyes that will be on Vancouver and our province come February 2010, and we have a Green Party in power provincially. How cool and astute and world-leading would we look?

Times are changing, the repressive Bush-era is over, Obama and the new hope are in power in the USA, environmental issues have come to the fore, sustainable energy is going to be the next bubble market, the current economic downturn is going to shake some foundations and get rid of some of the rif-raf. Let’s be part of the vanguard of this change and try a new way of doing things.

Think about it before you go to the polls.

And no, I have not been paid by the Green Party or anybody to advocate this, it comes from deep meditation or copious amounts of beer or too much coffee in Kits or something like that.