That was the sentiment of 60% of western Canadians in the late 80's. We had been screwed one too many times and while the two westernmost provinces paid the bills, Quebec and Ontario got all the attention.
Along came a man named Preston Manning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Manning and the Reform Party. Reform will go down in history as the moist significant vehicle for change that never formed government.
I've said before that as soon as the colonials threw out the king you built a castle for the president and to this day is the only democratically elected leader to be hailed into the room with his own military march music. Americans have to lose that concept, forget the two party system, which is one party with two sides and revolt.
The last election, if I recall correctly, was one of the poorest turn out of voters in history. Tap that, the people so fed up they can't be bothered to vote anymore because it makes no difference. That was what Reform tapped. They had to lose the ideas of right wing and left wing and embrace practicality; the party drove a huge reduction in the deficit, then drove a realignment of all of Canada's social programs, blowing them out of the water to be replaced by tax benefits. It was the most fundamental change in the Canadian system since WWII.
You are being destroyed from within by special interest groups and lobbyists. No one in Washington makes voting decisions on what's best for the country, but rather what is good for them. Rather like the senate in ancient Rome who gleefully invaded countries to rape and plunder to maintain their lavish lifestyles.
Can someone explain to me how it is every senator and congressman seem to be wealthy/
