Your 2006 wingnut voters' guide

Autonomous Source has a comprehensive guide to all the kooky fringe parties running in the federal election. Most of his observations are spot-on. (Followers of the Paul Hellyer's Canadian Action Party "have a LaRouchie smell about them.") Whatever you're doing right now, drop it and check out the Marijuana Party of Canada's website, especially the "What the party is Not" section:

...the Federal Marijuana Party is united with the Bloc Pot in Québec, but is divided from the B.C. Marijuana Party, due to their support of the Federal NDP. The other provincial pot parties are very small, and none actively support the Federal Marijuana Party, but rather tend to support other political parties, like the NDP or Greens, or perhaps the Libertarians.

And you thought the Liberals were hopelessly divided, dude.

I have a strange sort of respect for these oddball political parties. Their naïveté is kind of charming. But some of them turn out to be a lot creepier when you look at their websites in detail. The Western Block Party - that's not a street festival, but a Western separatist group - has neo-Nazi lawyer Doug Christie as a candidate, while Halifax Marxist-Leninist candidate Tony Seed is so obsessed with destroying the "state of Israel" - the scare quotes are his - he's practically foaming at the mouth.

What is the difference between the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), anyway? Would the Communists merely "re-educate" bourgeois class enemies like me, while the Marxist-Leninists would have us lined up against the wall and shot? I'd appreciate your theories on this.

Posted by damian at January 18, 2006 08:58 PM | TrackBack