No one who voted for Ford expected anything else. That’s my point above, Ford’s one of the first premiers I can remember who wears his scumbagginess and cronyism on his shoulder. Ontario voters knew Ford had promised developers he‘d open up the greenbelt and no one believed his back peddling. Ontarians knew what we were voting for. What you see is what you get.
I don't know that that's necessarily the case across the board, Beez. I think there are a not insignificant amount of people who vote for ideological reasons or out of sheer spite, whether their motive is to stick it to the libtards or the deplorables. These types then find themselves supporting some disreputable jackass with a smug self-assurance along the lines of, "He may be a bastard, but he's
our bastard!" and then are shocked -
shocked, I tells ya!! - when that same asshole doesn't happen to share the sentiment, and they find that, no, they are not somehow magically protected from the brutal policies he/she has every intention on forcing through.
Probably the most notorious example I can think of is when the Air Traffic Controllers' Union endorsed Reagan for President, and then got exactly what they asked for when the old bastard turned around and fired the whole lot of them when they attempted to illegally strike. The goddamn dummies. A little closer to home is a story I read on the front page of the Toronto Star shortly after Mike Harris' election as Premiere. This was when the thuggish nature of the Harris government was really beginning to sink in, surprising absolutely no-one who'd been paying attention. But the Star story quoted some voter, who was blubbering, "I voted for Harris, but I didn't vote for
this!" At the time, I found myself thinking, "Well, no, dear, you
did vote for this." It's not like Harris made any secret of what kind of man he was during the campaign. And yet, this fool was honestly surprised...or claimed to be. The stupid, it burns sometimes.
