Apparently the Harper Conservatives are going to unveil a platform - in the final week before the election. They're the government. They called the election, it wasn't triggered by the opposition. And they've dummied up until they were safely past the debates. It's just plain creepy.
Stephen Harper is shrewd. He's undemocratic, authoritarian, hyper secretive, cynical, manipulative, and more than a tad creepy himself - but he's shrewd.
Last time around Harpo fed Canadians a bagful of lies about how he'd govern on principles. Why he'd turn things around. There'd be accountability and transparency and a bunch of little trinkets like fixed election dates - and anyone who believed him must wonder what's that taste in their mouths today. Here's the answer - he fed you a load of shit and you swallowed it. And he's getting fixed to feed you another load of the same this time.
The fundamentals of the economy are strong. That's crap straight from the prime ministerial horses ass himself. Here, help yourself to a shovelful if you can get another one down.
In that grotesque parody of a newspaper we call the National Post, Don Martin writes that it makes sense for Harper not to release his platform because, after all, that would only give the other parties the opportunity to attack it. And, yeah, it also gives Harpo the chance to tweak it up (as in make it up) at the last minute. Yes, Don, and it also gives Canadians next to zero chance to evaluate it and look through it and figure out they're being hoodwinked by the same Con artist who got'em last time.
The height of Don Martin's cynical apologia for Harper came in this final line of his piece: "If voters really knew what a government was planning, they would never vote for them, confessed one candid politician whose identity I cannot find in Google (although I'm thinking former finance minister John Crosbie)." Right Don, thanks.
Stephen Harper is shrewd. He's undemocratic, authoritarian, hyper secretive, cynical, manipulative, and more than a tad creepy himself - but he's shrewd.
Last time around Harpo fed Canadians a bagful of lies about how he'd govern on principles. Why he'd turn things around. There'd be accountability and transparency and a bunch of little trinkets like fixed election dates - and anyone who believed him must wonder what's that taste in their mouths today. Here's the answer - he fed you a load of shit and you swallowed it. And he's getting fixed to feed you another load of the same this time.
The fundamentals of the economy are strong. That's crap straight from the prime ministerial horses ass himself. Here, help yourself to a shovelful if you can get another one down.
In that grotesque parody of a newspaper we call the National Post, Don Martin writes that it makes sense for Harper not to release his platform because, after all, that would only give the other parties the opportunity to attack it. And, yeah, it also gives Harpo the chance to tweak it up (as in make it up) at the last minute. Yes, Don, and it also gives Canadians next to zero chance to evaluate it and look through it and figure out they're being hoodwinked by the same Con artist who got'em last time.
The height of Don Martin's cynical apologia for Harper came in this final line of his piece: "If voters really knew what a government was planning, they would never vote for them, confessed one candid politician whose identity I cannot find in Google (although I'm thinking former finance minister John Crosbie)." Right Don, thanks.
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Hi Mound...that was a good one. It made me laugh...and despair at the same time. I'm not one to see an ideological bias behind every story. But I can't forget the our IDIOT media was largely responsible for electing Harper in the first place. And now they seem determined to see it as just a horse race. They seem unable to see the larger picture.Mediocrity will be the death of all of us....
Hi Simon, thanks. Unfortunately there's not much that comes out of the National Post that isn't laced with ideological bias. My faith in the wisdom of the electorate still hasn't recovered from Bush's second election win. Maybe the dumbing down of our societies is nearly complete.
True that there has been a strong effort to dumb down our society, especially by the media who have tried to create a society that can't handle more than a sound bite for every news item.
But I listen to people on the street, and those who call in to radio stations like CBC 1, and it strikes me that there are still many people who do take government seriously and almost innately understand what they value and that Harper is the anti-thesis to this. How they know is perhaps thanks to CPAC and the internet because the corporate media sure isn't helping educate the masses.
Unfortunately, they are for the most part not armed with the facts or details. I overheard people complaining about the waste of paper of those flyers (CPC ones I imagine) as an aside to a discussion about the debate. The impression I got from their general discussion is that they knew the names of candidates, who they liked, but nothing about the parties or what they stood for. I guess Harper's tactic worked in that sense. He has managed to create a disconnect overall.
Anyway, I am hoping that we are proven wrong in our predictions. I am hoping there is an untapped (by pollsters) youth movement that proves the media and pundits wrong.
...the dumbing down of society....
...the idiotic media...
WOW!! So...did all this happen over the last 3 years?? 13 years of Liberal majority's were because of the intelligent society and the brainy media?? Is there a large room out there filled with kidnapped newspeople and 5 million Canadians? Honestly...I gotta ask..do you actually think that only Liberals should rule?? Are you guys that arrogant?? Do you feel so much contempt for your fellow Canadians who dont vote Liberal that you call them "dumbed down"..?? I'm guessing your idea of Canadian democracy are elections that decide who sits in the oppostion bench. Re-read your post..then re-read the comments about your post...then go read Warren Kinsella today...if, after reading all of that you think WK is wrong, and you think I'm wrong, and you think the 40% of Canadians who'll vote Con are wrong, then, be prepared to fight off the NDP every election for 2nd place!! Your choice...
billg
No, Bill, this all happened when people like you decided to embrace an authoritarian, secretive, undemocratic, one-man rule by a guy who breaks his very own law to call an election for no good reason. If he had a reason, Bill, he would have made that clear in the first month of his six week campaign. It's not me who treats the Canadian people with contempt, Bill, it's Harper and the people who think it's fine for him to gag our civil and armed services, rule by fiat and not even present a platform until it's late enough that voters have no means to evaluate it. And, yes Bill, it takes a pretty dumbed down electorate to vote for a guy like that. if the shoe fits...
You belong with this "new" Liberal party...and unless attitude's change your going to be a very bitter man for a long time. There are so many points to debate in your rant, but, why bother, your idea of debate is to put your point across and then belittle and insult the people who dare disagree with you. Your comment is a snapshot of the "new" Liberal party...arrogance and self righteousness with a little better-then-thou attitude mixed in. Now, go back to hating people who dont think the way you do...isnt there a word for that? billg
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Bill,I think you're flat wrong. Listening to you reminds me of hearing the same thing from Tories when Mulroney came in to wreck the place.
There's nothing holier-than-thou in despising a government that gags the civil and armed services and operates in secrecy, violating even its own laws as it chooses.
The very idea of having to get critical information filtered and manipulated through the PMO is abhorrent to me and should be to any Canadian.
That sort of undemocratic chicanery plainly doesn't bother you. If you find that observation belittling or insulting, get over it.
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