In these turbulent times with a myriad of external threats against the West, there is a ray of light for hopefulness that the general population has not yet tumbled off the precipice of sanity into utter depravation -- and that is its overwhelming refusal to support those that control Green Parties at various levels of government. In Canada, the federal Green Party jumped from 0.8% of the popular vote during the 2000 election up to 4.3% in 2004, and has since declined to 3.4% in the latest 2015 election. At the provincial levels, Greens are stuck at less than 0.5% in Alberta, 0.9% in Nova Scotia, 0.5% in Quebec, 0.7% in the Yukon Territory, and less than 3% in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The deeply politically and societally disfunctional province of British Columbia has seen support for the Green Party slide from a high of 12.4% in the 2004 provincial election down to 8% in 2009 and 2013. Similarly, in Ontario the Greens dropped from 8% in 2007 to 4.8% in 2014. Only in the small...(Read Full Post)