Seriously guys (guys being those elected to opposition), harper has shown us that all oppositions parties can't afford the luxury of individually deciding and waiting for when the best time is to take down this harper government.
harper has shown us all over and over that his word means nothing, that he has contempt- absolute contempt - for parties that actually back off and negotiate with him. Anyone with an IQ over 60 (and isn't a rabid wingnut-which is pretty much the same thing) knows that fat boy steve will say anything, promise anything to get re-elected.
You also must realize by now that any deal he agrees to with you is geared to give him an edge to gaining more power.
harper is something we've never seen in Canada: a politician who believes absolutely in his innate greatness and that belief, linked to a lack of moral consequence and responsibility - allows him to justify to himself and those who blindly follow him that any means, no matter how corrupt, undemocratic, and unethical justify the end. And the end is his unshakable certainty that he knows better than the collective electorate what is good for Canada.
Add to that the harper truth that what's good for Canada is his own warped vision of a country where profits to a few far outweighs individual rights, equal access to basic needs, free speech, women's rights, children's rights, and the rights of minorities and you have an inflexible, power hungry megalomaniac whipping any elected opposition into submission because they just don't get what they are dealing with.
Elizabeth May has been saying that voting for the lesser evil (voting harper out) is not what Canadians should be reduced to. Survival changes the rules, Beth. In a healthy democracy where all parties respect legislation, voters, human rights and the law, then sure, you don't vote for the lesser evil, you campaign for the best rep.
But when that evil threatens not only this generation but others to come by undermining democracy, education, free press, free speech, then wake the fuck up and realize that those words will mean nothing because they encourage the very divisive attitude that harper counts on. The left is badly divided, and this keeps the malignant narcissist in power. And all of you in opposition let him play on your quest for more seats while trading off the rights of Canadians in the hopes that a better time for an election will come along and you will gain just a few more ridings.
Meanwhile, the malignant narcissist chuckles away as he changes the rules, stacking them in his favour.
harper and the harpercons are a new beast. They don't follow what's good for the herd. They don't respect what the herd wants. With lions, when you get such a pack leader, the pack combines its forces and gets rid of the bastard before anything else. They understand on whatever level their species is capable of such understanding, that there will be no pack left if they allow an insane alpha to rule them. Then they go back to the ways of the pack and select a new alpha.
harper is the rogue lion more focused on his fucked-up vision and blind thirst for power than he is on survival of the pack. Get rid of the rogue, then you can go back to what's good for Canada based on decades of carefully constructed legislation.
So set aside your own differences and ambitions and those of your parties and oust the dysfunctional rogue.
Then we can all work at making the lives of Canadians better through the laws and legislation that exist and the opportunity to freely challenge such legislation.
Coalition, informal agreement, cease-fire among the opposition...I don't care. But for all our sakes, get rid of the creature who has such contempt for us that he has the audacity to rename our government after himself.
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The problem with asking the Opposition parties to set aside their differences is that they would also have to set aside their self-interest.... and I don't see that happening.
then it really is up to us, but I don't know if enough people can be woken up
You're right about that... more is the great and woeful pity
You should try facebook. As sad as it is, people are more interested in the latest facebook news than that of any paper and broadcasting.
The only way to try and wake up the majority of Canadians, is to play into their idiocracy and make it "cool" to make a stand.
Like other fads it will pass but most people long for a sense of purpose, which is why they turn to facebook, they arent fufilled until someone comments on their daily activities. Make them part of your daily activities, create a group and befrend college and university groups, form there, let the appeal spread.
I agree that facebook can mobilize and reach more people - short term, at least. Maybe it's a good place to build from.
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