We have the deeply sad situation in Canada that approximately 40% of the population can elect a majority government that would not be elected or supported by the other 60% of the population. That situation is undemocratic, unjust, and morally insupportable. It is created by the political party system itself, and that is the essential problem.

Political parties are self-aggrandizing competitive entities which seek power for its own sake, and they seek it selfishly and ruthlessly. They are, by definition, opposed to all other political parties, and seek to build themselve by destroying the other parties.

There is only one major party in this country that represents the "conservative" sector of the public, the 40% that I alluded to, and they have formed a majority in parliament. That is unjust.

There are 3 parties who represent about 54% of the public (Liberals, NDP, Green)...people would would definitely not vote Conservative, and the fact that there are 3 of them...each devoted to its own survival...means that 40% of the people in this country get a government which represents their approximate views after an election...and the other 60% do not.

Un-fucking-believable. And it has been happening ever since Reform and the PC's merged into a single party. Before that, they had no hope of winning an election, because THEIR constituency was split between 2 parties. The centre-left is now split between 3 parties, and the right walks away with a majority because of that, and ONLY because of that. It's what would happen in a USA election if the Democrats split into 2 or more parties. The Republicans would win a massive majority ever time.

If all political parties were abolished...if we were voting for independent, non-partisan individuals to form a parliament instead of voting for party blocs to jockey against one another in parliament, THEN we would have a working democracy in this country, one which would represent a majority of the people.

As it is, we have a travesty...a system which pretends to be representative, but which cannot be, given the present state of party politics in this country.

Political parties themselves are the disease. The only cure, as far as I can see, is to abolish them and vote for free individuals instead of political party members.

It's not going to happen. And I know it. Thus I am writing this merely to voice my own frustrations and my despair about the ruling system, rather like a caged dog who barks desperately at the world beyond his bars. And I know that too. There is nothing the dog can do. There is nothing most citizens can do. We are prisoners of an unworkable political system that does not represent us. Voting for political parties will only perpetuate the gross political injustice that has long infected and crippled this society and deprived us of any real possibility of truly representative government.

This is also true in other western democracies. Political parties are the death of real democracy, IMO, because they are inherently divisive and corrupt. They are organized gangs, out for their own gain. Like absolute monarchies, their day of tyrrany over the general public must end eventually...but I'm sorry to say it won't end during my lifetime. That's for sure. You know why? Because the political parties RUN this system, and they will not orchestrate their own demise...no more than a monarch would.

Only a complete social revolution of some kind (either peaceful or violent) can bring down a systemic tyranny like that. The ballot box can't do it, because the parties themselves control what happens AT the ballot box, and they will not legislate any change which surrenders their control.