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Originally Posted by phobiaphobe Looking forward to Christmas with my socialist feed-the-world, polisci-grad blog-writing 5 language-spoken sister. Especially with the current election providing lots o' crap-tossing fodder. Luckily I have my 6-figure income, American citizen, engineer, encyclopaedic, read every book ever written conservative stepfather to back me up. |
Well the Christmas dinner politics debate was a great time, what with the current election. Add to the cast: Stepdad's father... (my grandfather for all intents and purposes) ... also American, WW2 Pacific veteran, very intelligent, also an engineer, very conservative.
Socialist sister: I don't like Stephen Harper (conservative party leader) he's creepy and he's too right-wing.
Grandfather: What part of his platform do you find to be 'too right wing'?
<cough, cough>
Sister changes the subject.
The conversation goes on for a while, flipping from Paul Martin to Jack Layton to Michael Ignatieff (google him) to Iraq to everything in between. Grandpa closes the debate with this:
"Well kids, here's what Canada needs: A new constitution, a new charter, an elected senate, and an elected president. Our system doesn't work."
Well put grandpa.