...OK. The dividing line between sanity and insanity is not clear or precise. Most insane people permanently cross that final zone between reality and massive delusion gradually. They may have at one time questioned their own rhetoric, wondered, when comparing themselves to others, if they were normal, noticed odd little differences such as others having something called a conscience. But let a borderline case sit long enough listening to nothing but the echoes of his own disturbed ideas, well, you can end up with this:
Harper was asked if Canada's reputation as a stable democracy will suffer from his prorogation of Parliament. Harper said there was "zero risk" of that. In fact, he said it's when Parliament is sitting that Canada's stability comes into question.
I know. Read it again. Take your time. I’ll wait...
That is our Prime Minister, folks. The guy who is supposed to lead our country through Parliament, the guy who is supposed to help guard our democracy and promote Canada internationally. And he is saying that Canada is more stable when the democratic process of elected representatives acting on behalf of voters is by-passed, suspended.
He of course blames the instability of a sitting Parliament on the fact that he has a minority government, and somehow, this just isn’t fair, or workable, and if it is dysfunctional, it simply isn’t his fault. We Canadians just aren’t doing our part in giving him a majority, and the opposition MPs are, well, behaving like opposition MPs.
"As soon as Parliament comes back, we're in a minority Parliament situation and the first thing that happens is a vote of confidence and there will be votes of confidence and election speculation for every single week after that for the rest of the year," he said. “That's the kind of instability I think that markets are actually worried about.”
Yes, Steve, that’s what it means to have a minority. You either work with the opposition (which collectively represents the majority of Canadians who did not vote for your party) and develop legislation accordingly, or you quit and let someone who really grasps and respects that fundamental concept of a democratic Parliament do the job.
When I read this article today, I decided that yes, Steve has finally permanently crossed that line into insanity. He finds nothing wrong with making such statements, finds them in fact so reasonable that he thinks the majority of Canadians will find them truthful, brilliant, and just the very reason to give him a majority.
It is Steve’s failure to grasp how appalling his reasoning is that shows him to be mad.
He sees nothing wrong with stating that it is better to suspend Parliament than to have to deal with the 2/3 of Parliamentarians representing 2/3 of Canadians voters. He sees nothing wrong in praising the virtues of proroguing as a means of avoiding democratic votes in the House, votes made on behalf of those we elect.
And somehow, after telling us through these crazy words that 2/3 of Canadians aren’t worth listening to, that 2/3 of Canadians’ rights don’t mean shit, he thinks those very Canadians will see the wisdom of having their rights ignored, and will give him a majority so that he can crush even more of those rights with even fewer barriers.
That’s insanity. That’s sight so turned inward that it can do nothing but invent its own version of reality in a mind so isolated from normal people that it begins to believe the craziness it has made up.
And that, Steve, is the kind of instability of mind that prevents you from convincing more Canadians to vote for you.
Steve seems to think he is Special. The Chosen One. The saviour just waiting to be anointed. There have been others like him, people who have started out with a sense of entitlement, believing that they were born special, and that rules did not apply to them. They believed they were meant to make the rules for those lesser beings, the mindless masses.
Kim Jong-il Caligula L. Ron Hubbard
Leaders who ignore the public and create their own rule of law to suit their personal objectives are not leaders. They are despots.
2 comments:
I think it is less insane and more arrogant.
The part where we have a minority situation only when Parliament is sitting drives this home. It shows disgusting contempt for those of us who either didn't vote for his party or are not represented by a CPC MP.
Section 15 has a good series of 'posters' up with this arrogance as the theme. It seems like a meme worth pushing.
thanks. I'll check that out. Good idea to focus on a main theme, and this bunch provides endless material for arrogance.
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