Won’t be writing a lot today but have the links to previous writings about this current, and most likely continuing government, the Conservatives. And given their name, why are these Conservatives such radicals when given the reins to our blessed Canadian buggy? We’ve been trundling along nicely but now we have these folks telling us the world is going to hell, that fear is the only way to properly engage with the world, that compassion is only for the well off, and that we really should be more like those folks down south.
Its the last that really has me concerned. Not that the Americans are bad sorts, but the point that people seem to forget, (just like Canadians addicted to American shows like Law and Order are under the impression that our laws are the same), it is a different country with a different history. And they are not doing very well right now. Harper’s government is emulating only the worst of their moves, the same moves they themselves are trying to undo with little success; the ruinous war on drugs, the horrible legacy of the highest incarceration rate on the planet, and a greater rift between the will of the people and the governors. Because though the Conservatives like to state over and over again that they represent the people, on most of the issues, the people and the evidence do not support them, and yet they move ahead. And the sooner we return to our unique national path, a more humanist path than the coldhearted route being mapped out by these folks, the better, and especially now considering the very real danger of the States actually getting someone worse than Bush into the driver’s seat.
I’ll be returning to this from time to time because I have to. As I say, I’d rather be on about music and films or science but when you have the real possibility of these dangerous incompetents being returned to office you just have to say something. And I worry for my daughter who if she ends up using a little drugs like almost all of us did when we were kids, that she might have to pay a much higher price, that if she fell far and became an addict that there would be no one anymore to help her, or simply if she ended up working in the arts that she would have to survive in a culture where the funding was gone for any work outside of the mainstream or comfortable.
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Maybe the Canadian conservatives are still upset about that whole Oregon Territory? Or that the Cariboo in Kamloops get more action than them.
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