Thinking About Thinking

Category: 2024 Elections

  • Late Tuesday Night

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    There are moments in life when sounds and images flash and bring insights totally separate from their original purpose.  Some will call them ear/eye worms.  In and of themselves they seem to hold little or no importance yet, they often create flashes of insights.  Not everyone will take elections seriously.  They might even vote, but…

  • Off We Go

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    It took some time but we have the results of the BC General election 2024.  We have a new government – 93 Members of the Legislative Assembly have been elected (I know the final results from two judicial recounts are still pending but likely will not change the faces in the legislature).  The 93 are…

  • Is Voting an Exercise in Power

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    With low voter turnout becoming the new norm it may be time to take back the power of the vote.  A few years back I decided on a new way to engage in the electoral process.  I would write to each of the candidates with three questions.  Two would be the same for all candidates…

  • Life Goes Forward not Backwards

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    I have finally thought things through and I know why this election season, not only in BC but globally is so frustrating for me, pulling me into judgements and opinions that are not compatible with what I truly believe.  This insight is that life goes forward not backwards!  Those seeking leadership positions that are looking…

  • The Fingerless Dyke

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    I have been thinking of “unintended consequences”.  There seem to be a lot of them bubbling up but most people are not recognizing them for what they are.  At first they seem random and disconnected but when you step back and look at them patterns begin to emerge.  In the United State assimilation is often…

  • Polling

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    I am rolling with the question – are polls creating transparency and aiding communication during election campaigns, or are a majority of them simply subtle electoral interference?  The media is doing in depth coverage or foreign electoral interference while seemingly ignoring the simple fact that electoral interference has been a foundational part of representative democracy…

  • Electronic Pollution

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    Old Insights That Still Work In 1958 on the way to the largest Progressive Conservative majority government Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s train stopped outside a small Alberta town.  He was driven to the local high school and was standing back stage with the local PC organizers.  They stood at the bottom of the stairs leading…

  • Citizen Elector or Unpaid Extra in Fake Democracy

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    How do you see yourself as a voter? As we prepare for any election it is important for individuals to determine the role that they will play in the electoral process.  There are many options – I will list the two at the extremes of the pendulum and name one other.  The first, is a…