Michael Grant wrote to Kevin Fisher:
MG> Hello Kevin.
MG> 
MG> 13 Jan 06 16:02, you wrote to All:
MG> 
MG>  KF> Oh well.  What bothers me most is the way the Canadian voter works.
MG>  KF> Reactionary.  Canadians vote against that which pisses them off the
MG>  KF> most. No history, no "learning what the issues
are", no trying to see
MG>  KF> what the people they are voting for are REALLY about--just
MG>  KF> reactionary, spur of the moment anger.
MG> 
MG> Sitting here in the middle of Toryland, it really astounds me how 
MG> blatently ignorant some voters are. I try to tell someone that I think 
MG> Martin is the only one who will not royally screw up the economy, and I am 

MG> instantly labelled a Liberal. Yet when I point out that when Chretien was 
MG> running, I voted for the Reform Party, then they are baffled. They can't 
MG> grasp the concept of someone who doesn't blindly follow party lines, and 
MG> actually carefully examines the issues and party policies.
MG> 
MG> When I point out that the Reform Party had far different policies than the 

MG> current Conservatives do, and were far more fiscally responsible, their 
MG> heads start spinning like the girl from "The Exorcist".
They see only Tory 

MG> blue, and they think that all Tories are "Good Tories"...
MG>

Indeed.  And the "Conservatives" are not the TORIES.  When the media
immediately started calling them the "Tories" after they swallowed what was
left of the PC party I groaned.  And too many people bought it.  This is NOT
the Tories of old.

What bothers me most is the "hidden agenda" of this party.  And I'm not
quoting Martin with this either...they DO have a hidden agenda.  Even Kim
Campbell and Joe Clark have mentioned how unpalatable the new Conservative
Party's "social conservativism" is.  I won't be so politically
correct about
it...I call it what it is:  religious fundamentalism.  THAT bothers me. 
They really tried to stuff Stockwell Day back in the closed when he let his
nutty religious flag fly, but they've kept Harper on a short leash.  But
that doesn't mean it's still there.

I've been studying the Dominionist movement in the States for a few years,
and this same movement is here in Canada.  Harper is rumoured to be one, and
Day definitely is.  And as usual, most Canadians are bloody ignorant about
what it means (but to be fair, so are most Americans--although they are
starting to wake up, albeit too late).

Mix one part Leo Strauss with one part R.J. Rushdooney and what do you get? 
Stephen Harper's Conservatives.

 
MG>  KF> Look at Ontario.  Oh yeah we were angry at Peterson, the bloody
MG>  KF> Mulroney lickspittle.  Who's on the opposite side of the fence?
MG>  KF> VOTE
MG>  KF> FOR HIM!  Enter Rae.  4 years later:  "Oh that incompetant Rae!  
MG> Let's
MG>  KF> vote for the opposite...HARRIS!"  And so it goes, over and over 
MG> again.
MG> 
MG> Harris was a Mulroney clone. Harper is a Mulroney clone as well. Their 
MG> priorities are large corporate tax cuts, closer ties and integration with 
MG> the USA, and huge program cuts. They have no qualms whatsoever over 
MG> running huge deficits and racking up an enormous national debt, so long as 

MG> their supporters are taken care of.
MG> 


Harris is not gone.  He pulled a Mulroney and "retired" before the voters
here could beat his ass, but he didn't cut and run...he ascended to a far
more damaging position at the Fraser Institute, and is very much a "policy
guy" behind Harper.  Only now, Harris can't be "voted out."

Sadly, in Ontario, the only word of the Fraser Institute we get here is that
stupid "Tax Freedom Day" they like to promote to make themselves look all
nice and shiney.  Most Ontarians have NO CLUE about what they're really
about...even though Harris' damned "Common Sense Revolution" was taken page
for page from Fraser doctrines.


MG> Change just for change's sake is always a bad thing to do. Better the 
MG> devil you know than the one you don't, because most voters simply don't 
MG> see the true nature of the beast until it's far too late.
MG>

I agree.  I admit, I'm pretty damned angry at Martin.  Once again his party
has the RCMP looking into things, and this time right in the middle of an
election.  What a nice present for Stephen Harper...but I'd rather have
Martin, the devil I know, instead of Harper.  I'd take Bozo the Clown over
Harper at this point, or that transvestite "Enza" from Toronto
(the one that
ran for city hall a few years back along with Tooker Gomberg).
 
MG> Yet when the interest rates go through the roof and the economy goes into 
MG> the toilet, oh how they will whine...


Yeah, and when their sons get shipped off to Iraq (and probably Iran)...
Here in Ontario it usually takes "personal inconvenience" coming
home to the
goddamned 905-ers before any political change happens.  The 905-ers were
happier-n-shit about Harris until his Fraserite dogma started cutting into
their SUV-driven personal lives.  And the 905-ers always seem to hold the
bulk of the votes here, overriding every other part of Ontario.


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