politicians don't care about high school kids

[Shona]

So as Canadians already know, there is an election coming up soon.

One thing that really bothers me is that politicians don't care about high schoolers, since most of them aren't gonna be voting.

This is really frustrating for me! There are so many important issues related to high schools!

-- funding cutbacks
-- advertising contracts in schools
-- user fees
-- teacher cutbacks, and therefore fewer after-school sports
-- streaming (no one cares about schools in rough neighbourhoods anymore!)
the list goes on..

But this flies past the heads of all the old guys in the candidate debates!

Are there any young candidates out the fighting for these issues, or are they all opportunists too?

[Bannockburn]

It is true they don't care about high school The assumption follows that high school voting kids will simply vote how their parents vote, and in the past that has been liberal. So its already a clear issue for them. Politically, all the liberals have to do is mention Mike Harris and the conservatives in one sentence and that will scare enough students to vote liberal.

Wait till you get to college. I'm at a Canadian university right now, and they are all over the place sucking our cocks to get our votes.

[RedStarOverChina]

Are you the Shona from YCL Ontario??

[STI]

1) Don't answer that question. It's a security risk (not that RSOC is trying to bait you).

2) If you're part of the working class, politicians aren't ever going to care much about you. It's something you'll have to get used to if you live in capitalism.

[NOT TRUE!]

Hey, that's not true. The leaders debate was pretty lame last night an I don't think they mentioned students even once. Not even Layton. But that's because those are the big business parties.

The Communist Party always has a youthful slate. Even the older candidates have a long history in student movements.

Check out the candidates here: http://pcc-cpc-2006.communist-party.ca/can.htm

I don't know where you live, but Johan is running in Toronto-centre and he's running a pretty youth oriented campaign You should check out his site (http://www.boshetunmai.com/johan).

[STI]

This is what I hate about election season.

Anyway, so what if this Johan fellow gets elected? How long do you think it'll take for him and his buddies to start acting just like the rest of those bastards on Parliament Hill?

I've met the CPC-ML candidate for my riding at the Condi protest. Lame rally, even lamer candidate.

[Guest]

(I'm the person who wrote the "NOT TRUE" post)
(need to get an account here sometime...)

He won't get elected. Because he wouldn't start acting like those other bastards if he did.

There's a pretty sharp difference between 'those bastards' and the coms. They're ruling class, we're working class. (And if he were a class traitor/opportunist, he'd run for the NDP, not communist!)

But there have been communists elected to parliament before, and they've been very vocal and uncompromising. If they were all elected, they would have every interest to create a workers state and have the workers own all means of production. For the reason alone that they're workers.