ABC = C

Okay, so the worst thing that could possibly happen, has happened. Not only did Harper get a majority, but the opposition has been reduced to a bunch of whiny newbies from an easily marginalized left-wing party filled with teenagers from Quebec.

Gone are the days the opposition front bench is filled with experienced parliamentarians capable of keeping a radical extremist government from fundamentally changing the structure of Canadian democracy. Gone are the days when Canadians could rely, sometimes even relish, that the moderate, centrist opposition was not only preventing the War Criminal Harper from gutting our institutions for his own personal gain, but could sometimes force him to completely betray his extremist views and do something good for ALL Canadians.

From here on in, democracy in Canada is dead. Every reform that Harper implements will have the sole purpose of further entrenching his power as he continues on his march to make his version of the increasingly ironically named Conservative Party of Canada the new "natural choice party" for Canadian voters.

And sadly, I had a part in it. I fell for what I now believe is another angle of that criminal mastermind, Harper's Master plan for the elimination of all Liberal elitists. I voted and encouraged others to vote ABC.

Only now, now that its too late to do anything. Now that its too late to stop Harper from annexing Canada to that failed, bloated, economic disaster to the south known as America. Only now do I realize the error of my ways.

And oddly, it was Sheila Copps of all people who sounded the warning, nearly half way into the election when she said during a 3 person/3 party panel discussion that the only people who could stop Harper is the only other party ever to form Government, the Liberals.

So unless you want PM Harper permanently, unless you like the idea of Canada becoming a 3rd class satellite State of America, the effective 51st State if not the actual one, then you better get your head out of your a$$ and climb on the now rebuilding Liberal party. Harper proved it. Abandon the Liberals and he wins. Move to the NDP and he wins. And when he wins he wins BIG.

One of the reasons you haven't heard from me since the election on May 2nd is because I've been reviewing the information, riding by riding. There's no doubt about it. If you go riding by riding and take the NDP vote count this election, and then subtract the votes they got in 2008 (you now have what we call their SURGE), and then move those numbers to the Liberals in that riding, then the election result in 2011 would be almost exactly match the predictions made ten days before the election. That being the Liberals would've had around 80 seats, the NDP around 60 and combined they would've had enough to form a coalition government to replace Harper. But by shifting those votes to the NDP all you got was an untried opposition full of dreamers and a Harper Majority.

NDP - NO DAMN PROBLEM (for Harper that is)

Various former members of Harper's inner circle have said all along that the biggest reason he went after the Liberals is because he knew an NDP Opposition would be easier to win against. Harper knows he can easily force the NDP to the extreme left and when push comes to shove Canadians will be easier to scare away from an NDP government than a Liberal one.

Phase One was to defeat the Liberals and form Government, Phase Two was to humiliate their leaders, create chaos and capitalize on it. Phase Three was to drive enough of their supporters to the NDP in their strongholds so that the left would split the vote because that was how Harper was going to get his majority. And it worked. Now he's facing Jack Layton, "taliban jack" as the conservatives call him, and an opposition filled with people who never expected to get elected. For Stephen Harper the next four years are going to be a cake walk.

KICKING THEM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN

The next thing Harper needs to do to ensure his neo-con party remains in power is kill the vote-subsidy. The subsidy was brought in by Chretien as a way to level the playing field. It meant that parties were limited in what they could raise from private donors, people typically trying to lobby for favours with Government and curry votes to their agendas. Chretien also made it so that only people could donate to parties, but by taking out non-governmental agencies, corporations and unions from the mix there was a shortfall in funding so great as to threaten the very strength of democracy in Canada. To fix that he instituted the vote-subsidy. If you were popular and your party got a lot of votes in an election then you'd get a lot of money after the election. Approx. $3 per vote at last count.

Harper hated that of course for three reasons. 1) Conservatives are easier to scare money out of so if that was the only fundraising method then his party would immediately have the advantage. 2) Because they got a lot of votes in Quebec (in past elections) the Bloq was getting millions for doing nothing more than participating in democracy. and 3) The Liberals got money too. By killing the Vote-Subsidy Harper will ensure that only his party has sufficient funds for each election to run a serious campaign. And it will permanently cripple the Liberals leaving only the weak and unfocused NDP to compete against.

So that's where we are. In four years, if we're still a sovereign nation (and I'm not betting on it) then we'll return to the polls and have a choice. Vote Liberal and replace Harper with something from the center of the political spectrum that will run Canada with an eye to keeping us free, or vote NDP/Conservative/Bloq/Green and keep Harper in power another term. It's always been that simple and it always will be despite the pie-eyed dreams of Jack Layton and the Orange wave.