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    Wednesday, October 14


    I am so sick of listening to politicians and watching politics. I know I am not the first person to utter those words but for me it is quite a bit of a epiphany. After all, I have worked in a political job of some sort since the day I graduated from university and I have been a partisan political volunteer and donor for almost as long. I left the partisan political world last year and I must say I couldn't be happier about that. I miss a lot of people and energy, but getting rid of that negativity and kool-aid drinking atmosphere is certainly for the best.

    I expand far more on why I left and what I hope is the future in the most recent episode of the Unknown Studio - a project of Scott Bourgeois and Adam Rozenhart that I wholeheartedly endorse - along with my friend Dave Cournoyer. Give it a listen!

    In his most recent blog Adam expands a bit more on a topic we discussed in the podcast, about how we lack statespeople in our public life. He asks why that is - and to some extent I think I know the answer - partisan politics suck. I am on the eve of listening to another politician, in this case Premier Ed Stelmach, talk about his vision for our province and I can't help but approach it with a growing sense of cyncism and aversion. Still, I'm going to watch. And hope to see a glimmer of statesmanship that Adam, Dave, Scott and an entire generation of our society thinks is missing from public life. Anyone want to take a bet that my cyncism is more on the mark than my hope?

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    • At 5:44 PM, OpenID sortland16 said…

      O-Ba-Ma :)

       

    • At 10:21 PM, Blogger Duncan said…

      Overrated? But I certainly have hope for him and his administration. That said, his predecessor was so terrible that I don't think it will take much for him to be deemed an improvement.

       

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