Editor: The election was a cacaphony.
I relish election time, especially the local elections where we as voters have the most clout. I love the discourse and the mudslinging. I love to see the candidates putting themselves on the line, exposing themselves to all we can pelt at them.
Most of all, I think I like the signs the best. Every street corner gets absolutely jammed up with colourful plastic text and images, each jostling for our attention.
In Canada, we tend to be very staid, polite and tidy. Then election time comes around, and all heck breaks out.
I think we should have more elections. I think we should be able to elect the board members of Fraser Health, TransLink and Metro Vancouver. We need a new election every few months.
The press would love it, and many more of us would be able to dress up and put ourselves on display.
Our politics is a shambles. So be it. Let life be less contrived and predictable. When we abandon ourselves to politics, we embrace our differences.
Politics after all, is about our differences and how we choose to deal with them. Our political system needs our input badly. It suffers from the lack of it, for by ignoring it we starve our society of a vast reservoir of wisdom. So go ahead, get on your soap box, make your views known, risk everything, and remember 鈥� prudence is folly.
Timothy Jones,
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