British Columbia had an election last Tuesday, May 14.

To everyone’s total shock, the wrong people, namely the incumbent provincial Liberals (liberal in name only LINO bastards) won with a majority.

The polls all predicted a landslide by the other major party around these parts, the provincial NDP.

But historically low levels of voter turnout handed the election to the Libs instead, and that is profoundly depressing to me.

Full confession : I did not vote. I was having a very poor mental health day and I could not imagine facing the social anxiety acid test of going to the polls.

Really regretting that now. Not that my vote would have made a big difference to the election, but it would have made a big difference to how I feel about the whole thing right now.

It would have been worth it to be able to say “I did what I could”. But I didn’t.

And here’s the thing. Everyone is wondering about how the polls could have been so wrong. But I think I know, and it’s not a pretty picture.

I think there were far too many people like me who believed the goddamned polls that predicted that Andrian Dix and his NDP would win by a landslide, and so they thought “Well, the right thing will happen whether I vote or not, so why bother?”

And thus, the old adage about evil requiring nothing but the inaction of good people comes true. Left wingers are historically a lazier group than conservatives, and far less inclined to band together and work hard toward a common goal, especially when it requires such an illiberal thing as doing what you are told or restraining your rampant self-expression, and that is all conservatism needs to be able to overcome the political system with their superior organization and dedication.

So we are stuck with these bastards for four more years. Fan fucking tastic.

Of course, there is a another, much darker explanation for how the polls can be so drastically wrong.

The side that won did it by cheating. They rigged the election, stuffed the ballot boxes, subverted democracy by turning it into a mere show to make the masses feel like they are in control.

When you think about it, how would we know the election was rigged? The only way to tell would be if the election results were radically different than what the polling suggested, especially the exit polls.

And I am quite certain that the forces of political evil are willing and able to do it. After all, if you think 47 percent of the voters are mindless parasites, it would be ridiculous to let them really be in charge. So why not steal the election?

It’s for their own good. They have no idea what is good for them.

And the warning bells clang louder every day. The entire Canadian federal government is under investigation for enormous amounts of vote fraud.

Down south, there was all kinds of hanky panky in their last election too. People have forgotten it by now because Obama won. But that should not keep the truth from being revealed.

So who knows? Maybe the powers that be have truly given up on democracy. Maybe they have perfected the art and science of tipping elections in their favour no matter what, and the kinds of governments now running the world are exactly the type they like : incompetent, partisan, dogmatic, elitist people far, far removed from the life of ordinary citizens and hence unlikely to feel like one of the people any more.

After all, they are one of the elite now, and act to protect their own group above all.

How would we know? And even if we knew, what could we do about it?

I would love to do a massive post-election poll where you ask everybody “Who did you vote for in the last election?”.

Allowing for a certain amount of self-reporting bias, it would still be a very useful yardstick for measuring the accuracy of the election.

If the results were in line with the pre-election polling and not the elections results, I think that would be enough evidence to launch an investigation into just what went on.

Because honestly. How else would we know if the results of an election are accurate? It would take only a little corruption of the system in just the right places to sway an election, especially if it’s close.

And have you noticed that all elections have been getting closer and closer over the years? The difference between winners and losers is often less than five percent, over and over again.

Are the people truly that evenly decided? Or are we only told that we are so the powers that be, the One Percent, can pick the winners without it being too obvious?

I have no proof or evidence of any of this. I only have questions and suspicions. I think it is worth looking into by someone far better at research than I am.

And seeing how far politicians have gone in completely ignoring the will of the people on dozens of issues, who can doubt that somehow, somewhere, something has gone disastrously wrong?

Every day, people grow angrier and more disillusioned and frustrated. The feeling that the average citizen is powerless against a system that is run by the One Percent, for the One Percent is growing.

I am convinced that this is, in an indirect way, the reason why there has been so many acts of random, senseless violence all over the world recently. Sometimes, all it takes to push an unbalanced person from thinking about it to doing it is a rise in the frustration level of the zeitgeist.

People do crazy things when they feel they have nothing left to lose. It’s how tragedies like mass shootings and bombings happen.

And it is also how revolutions happen.

Maybe it is time for another one of those. People need to demand democracy, and if they do not get it, they need to be ready to tear the whole system down.

That is the only time when the powers that be are scared enough to make real change.

We need to make their afraid for their lives again.