Stephen Harper, the current Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party, is facing an election in about two months. Like all politicians, only maybe a little more so, he’s kind of desperate right now. In order to curry favour from an electorate that appears to have grown weary of his tight-fisted governance, last week he announced that he would not tax Netflix,<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n adding that he, too, \u00a0just like a Regular Joe, enjoyed watching the life-simulations depicted on television programs. It was as if some rudimentary form of Artificial Intelligence, one that existed in a strange human-like form that for all it’s advanced technology just couldn’t get the hair right, was trying to prove its humanity to a skeptical public. It was so clumsy it was almost sweet– like a grandparent saying YOLO in the wrong context.<\/p>\n However, the truly funny thing about this pronouncement was that nobody, not a single politician from any party, had ever suggested that they had a plan to tax Netflix. With this, it seemed that the Conservative strategy was laid bare\u2014they were going to announce a really horrible, really unpopular idea every week, and then assure the public that they would fight tooth and nail against such an appalling idea. This tactic would confuse the public, who would mistakenly think that the combative stance assumed by the Conservatives meant that one of the other political parties had actually proposed the idea and that taxing Netflix would be essential to their governance.<\/p>\n Out of nothing, something– it was the conjuring of a perfectly evil plan.<\/p>\n