Political addiction
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Dear Editor:
I think the winter and the post-Christmas blues have done it to me. A week of cold temperatures certainly didn’t help. Maybe a touch of cabin fever and ready access to the Internet fostered the problem even more.
And now that there are issues around the Keystone pipeline through the United States and the environmental review underway of the Northern Gateway project to the west in Kitimat, B.C., the addiction has gotten worst. Of course the Republican primaries south of the border didn’t help either.
There are also those mixed messages about a decentralized federation coming from Ottawa and of course an anticipated Alberta provincial election in the spring. All these things dig me deeper into my problem. Of course I should have known, given my family history, that I had a predisposition, perhaps even a genetic loading, for an affliction of this nature. As far as I know there are no support groups, treatment or even a clinic diagnosis for this problem. There’s no possibility either the federal or provincial government would even consider seriously recognizing this problem. To the contrary, they will continue to deny that it exists, believing as they do that it challenges their version of a true democracy.
But of course the first step to dealing with one’s problem is to admit it to oneself and then to admit it to love ones and relatives even if it’s one of most difficult confessions to make.
Yes indeed, I have become a political junkie.
George Jason
