Call Him When It's Over

Rarely have I seen such a childish piece of writing in a magazine, as that of Paul Bunner's article in June 2005's Alberta Venture, 'Call Him When It Is Over.'

The fact that the writer has sunk to the level of a kid in the schoolyard and seen the need to use name calling and labelling to make his point while showing no real level of intelligence in his premise. Add to this the fact that he sees little of value in anyone that does not agree with his political thoughts or beliefs show more about his small mindedness thinking than anything else.

The fact that he writes like this, shows he does not understand why, participation in the political system or process by 80% of those under 30, relates directly to how he has written about the politics of Canada. He also shows his lack of understanding of the vast majority of Canadians and their political beliefs. Even those living in Alberta.

He has proven that the 80% of the people who don't vote, whey they say, they don't because the system has no relationship to their lives, the politicians or want to be politicians do nothing for them, and the political process shows no signs of being relative to the average Canadian. The media and people like Bunner add fuel to that argument with columns or commentary such as in your June 2005 edition.

If Paul Brunner wants to engage the young people and lure them back to the voting booth, he will have to get out of the school yard and raise his level of thinking and writing to that of the 18 year old who might just like to have an intelligent conversation with him about politics and why they should be interested in politics, especially when Brunner is acting like a 12 year old.

In fact there is also the 50% of the average Canadian that does not vote as well, if Brunner feels too intimidated by the 12 year old.