Welcome back my friends to the show
that never ends!
As the psycho circus called The Primaries
wind their way across the USA,
some of the most wildly Surprising political ads are coming out of Canada instead,
as the perennially grey-dry Conservative Party is attempting to recruit youth by
using pseudo-gross-out reverse psychology tactics.
Rather than extol the virtues of the party, play on the hundred years-plus of tradition or focus on the issues (oh puh-leeze!), the ads invite campus kids to “Freak Out” their roommates, profs or exes by joining the Conservative party. Take a peek:
No this is not a parody or an ad
for the next Judd Apatow film. You can
see more by clicking over to the youth recruitment site that expands upon the theme.
While iron-fisted and stubborn, Conservative head and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper is far from a youth rebel, but if his party's contrary crusade actually works, it should make his next election campaign the most interesting one in Canadian history, as we move from “Rock the Vote” to “Mock the Vote.”