What specific thing do you dislike most about your country's current government?

[Cheung Mo]

I'd prefer not to see answers like "not socialist", "is social fascist", or "is the wrong type of socialism". We all have our ideological and sectarian biases. Fuck, some "socialists" would even take a diehard neo-liberal over Hugo Chavez, though I hope they'd be banned from here.

I despise the fact that since Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have had a majority government, our country has allowed its arms manufacturers to increase their dealings with Saudi Arabia by a factor of 100, from $35 million to $4 billion. At the same time, shills from Big Oil who support our current government use Saudi Arabia's dismal human rights record and poor treatment of women and religious minorities as justification to exploit Alberta's Tar Sands.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

They're Capitalist.

Being a Socialist isn't an ideological/sectarian bias.

If I really had to choose anything, it'd be their willingness to fuck with education and healthcare, fuck the teachers over and thus the kids over and fuck the ill over. You just don't do that.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

That since the Democrats got into office the anti-war movement is so dismall even though most people don't even support the Afghanistan war anymore. if Dems weren't in office there would probably be some legit anti-war movement like we had during Nam. Liberals are such hypocrites. Same thing with the cuts Democrats are leading us to like Jerry Brown. If there was a Republican in office I bet there would be a bigger movement against that shit he's doing. Or like when a democrat passed a similar law to the Scott Walker anti-union bill in some state like Connecticut and there was barely a peep about it, unions just said they didn't have to vote for the guy or something like that. So yeah, Democrats fucking suck.

[Zav]

I have no country.

[Raúl Duke]

The continued austerity that is pushed by the GOP all the while the Democrats play their role of being limp-wristed against it yet deep-down wanting it just as much; instead of Keynesian spending that would hopefully generate jobs so I can finally get a damn job...

Inaction towards Wall St. financial institutions and corporations, etc (i.e. raising the Capital Gains tax, closing tax loopholes, ending certain redundant subsidies)...

No social reforms (plus cuts to existing social spending), no free healthcare following the Canadian or British model.

Inaction on the part of the executive branch towards ending the DEA, et.al actions regarding medical marijuana...

other things...

Also, I dislike that the government is run by rich fucks who claim/pretend to represent us.

[Deicide]

Since I'm living in the UK, it'll have to be about the British government.

1) It's full of toffs from elite fee-paying schools and elite universities. This fact infuriates me.

[Blake's Baby]

Worst thing about 'my' country's government?

It exists.


...Fuck, some "socialists" would even take a diehard neo-liberal over Hugo Chavez, though I hope they'd be banned from here...

Fuck you, you nationalist, pro-capitalist fucker!

[DiaperGrandpa]

So many things, I barely even know where to start. Going with what someone above stated, the constant intervention/war in other countries. More locally, these "Emergency Financial Managers."

[brigadista]

Since I'm living in the UK, it'll have to be about the British government.

1) It's full of toffs from elite fee-paying schools and elite universities.

along with the words despise and contempt -

"I'd rather have the plague than the eton rifles"....

[Regicollis]

The fact that they are a bunch of fucking liars, closeted libertarians and traitors to their roots in the workers' movement and even to their own fucking election program from last fall.

I hate them for doing such a bad job that the previous bourgeois government which left us with blatantly racist policies, a hole the size of the Titanic in the treasury, an insane bureaucracy and pointless involvement in Bush' wars of aggression and notoriously criminal government practices seem like a better alternative.

I hate them for being so nasty that the conservative and liberal parties are going to win a landslide victory next election which will enable them to do even more nasty stuff. I hate them for being so obnoxious that it will be decades before anyone will ever trust a leftist party again.

I resent them for accepting every conservative talking point and concept as gospel truth which moves the entire debate further to the right and makes every attempt to discuss socialism seem totally outlandish.

I hate them for lying - and for insulting my intelligence. They claim that reducing taxes for the rich will benefit workers because a few workers pay maximum taxes on a small fraction of their income. How fucking stupid do they think we are?

We are currently blessed with a government comprised of the Social-Liberal Party (pretty progressive on social issues and crackpot libertarian on everything else), the Social Democrats (your average old, dusty and castrated European social democratic party) and the Socialist People's Party (SF) (originally a kind of Euro-communist party that used to have a pretty good reputation with people in the progressive social movements).

Before the election the Social Democrats and SF promised to tax the rich, create jobs, reduce the use of private cars and other moderate reformist stuff which - imperfect as it is - would be an improvement over what we had before. But now that they are in office they are planning to slash unemployment benefits, lower the taxes for the rich, reduce wages, cut welfare goods - basically to continue running this country down the crapper with the same conservative policies we had from the previous government.

Their excuse for betraying everything they were supposed to believe in - even as reformists? They need the Social Liberal Party to stay in office.

What is the fucking point for self-declared workers' parties to be in office if all they get to do is to is to pamper the rich and abuse the workers? Why don't they fucking grow a pair and tell the Social Liberals to back down if they want to stay in office?

Our only hope is that the Red-Green Alliance - whose support this government is dependent on - will pull the plug on them to teach them a lesson. It will mean a new election, a conservative/libertarian/outright revolting government for years to come but that is going to happen anyways. But hopefully it will teach the Social Democrats and SF that if they want those nice offices and titles again they have to behave and fight their natural urges to fuck the workers.



Wer hat uns verraten? - Sozialdemokraten!
Wer war mit dabei? - Sozialistische Volkspartei!

[eyeheartlenin]

Here in the #1 super power, we are facing a presidential election, and I am annoyed that the US poverty numbers under the current White House management are worse than they were under GW Bush, the liberals' nemesis (something the press never mentions and that you will never hear on The Daily Show [TV]), which is just one aspect of the fact that this Democratic administration has, at most, done very little, that I can see anyway, to alleviate the effects of a recession-plagued economy that represents a real crisis for working people and the poor.

It is pretty obvious that the current Chief Executive is deeply conservative at heart and has actively sought "consensus" with the slash and burn Republicans in Congress: before the onset of this election year, the Prez was talking about raising the age of Medicare eligibility to 67, something no *Republican* incumbent has advocated in my lifetime. After the Democrats win, largely because the GOP nominee is inept, the Democratic policy of malign neglect will undoubtedly continue, as conditions become even more calamitous for ordinary people here.

[Hexen]

Also, I dislike that the government is run by rich fucks who claim/pretend to represent us.

And the sad thing is that most people keep falling into this therefore they wonder why the government is doing the exact opposite what the they want but the worst part is that instead of giving a class analysis to realize that the government actually represents the bourgeoisie they instead (due to the "Communism has failed because of human nature" belief) they turn to liberal reformism (i.e. other capitalist parties like the Green Party and such) or right wing libertarian conspiracy theories as a attempt to find out why the government is not representing the 'people' (again another word that workers and lower classes keep falling into thinking that the Constitution/Bill of Rights/etc also applies to them although in reality it only applies to the bourgeoisie) like they should as they were indoctrinated in schools.

[Tim Finnegan]

Since I'm living in the UK, it'll have to be about the British government.

1) It's full of toffs from elite fee-paying schools and elite universities. This fact infuriates me.
I don't know, that's the only thing I like about them. Makes it easier to know who your enemy is.

[Small Geezer]

Supporting the war in Afghanistan. Bailing out finance companies. Tax cuts for the rich. Cutting the student allowance. Mixed ownership model for state owned enterprises. 'Fiscally prudent' National government blowing money right, right and centre on all sorts of unnecessary shit like rich people events, massive rennovations to the UK embassy and whatever indulgent shit ministers are up to while cutting the home insulation programme.

Basically the slant of this government towards the rich which really suprised me.

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[Art Vandelay]

Truthfully (and feel free to call me self centered) but more than anything (minus proletarian revolution, obviously) I wish I didn't have to constantly worry about going to jail for being a recreational marijuana user.

[rednordman]

Living in the UK i would say for 1) its them blaming the former government for absolutely everything that is wrong with the current affairs and future. and 2) That they have the sheer cheek to say that the left(or more like what they want to believe is the left) is strictly ideological, yet go about things in the most bias fashion ever, while boasting that the are not.

[Bronco]

Since I'm living in the UK, it'll have to be about the British government.

1) It's full of toffs from elite fee-paying schools and elite universities. This fact infuriates me.

Yeah, and at the same time Cameron always tries to make out he's a real "man of the people" who's really in touch with the public

[rednordman]

Yeah, and at the same time Cameron always tries to make out he's a real "man of the people" who's really in touch with the publicDoes he? I don't see how:confused:

[TheAltruist]

That they bail out they banks, wage countless and perpetual wars, is moving disturbingly close to fascism, shoots protestors, is filled with hypocrites, the fact that we're basically a one-party state, the complete association and control of mass-media, protecting huge wealth gaps, acting like jerks, almost censoring the internet, and parking tickets tick me off as well.

[Khalid]

Maybe that they're getting closer and closer to NATO while claiming they're not.

[Tenka]

presidant wa'n't born heer!!

No, seriously, it's their relentless capitulation to private capitalists. They should just go state capitalist already.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Revision of history.

[homegrown terror]

I have no country.

this.

but as for what the OP probably meant, the thing i hate most about the country i'm imprisoned in is the way the government constantly kneels to small-town bigoted christianity, and strives to bomb progress back to the 1950's.

[Mr. Natural]

"My" government works for capital. It is, as Marx and Engels noted 150 years ago, the executive committee for the bourgeoisie. "My" government is the enemy of life on Earth.

Actually, with the maturation of capitalism as a system (entropic globalization), I would amend Marx and Engels to simply note that capitalist governments serve as executive committees for capital. Members of the ruling class have become privileged prisoners of The System. The System rules. We gotta do something about this.

My red-green, capitalism-hating best.