Notes on Commandant Harper II
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Corruption at the founding convention of the Conservative party eh? I love the stench so early in summer.
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And what’s with shaking his kids’ hands as they leave for school?
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Liberals! Staring at your shoes because they tripped you up with the extension in Afganistan? Because their accountability law might make it too costly for enough delegates to come to your convention? Snap out of it! They're just trying to rattle you because they know you're still dangerous. Try lobbing some grenades yourself. Be it resolved this House affirms a woman’s right to chose. See the Tories stammer their way out of that one.
But my constituents might not like that. In the short run perhaps but in fact you’ll be upholding deeper values of theirs than affect that one issue. And this is war and you must realize that. You know what Harper wants. Look at his moves so far: the law saving poor horny fifteen-year-olds from the rapists, an ascetic accountability act, a cynical GST cut, a bunkered administration, siege language, the braying over the Supreme Court and Senate, the canceling of day care, the disdain for the media, the tarring of all things that don’t conform as liberal and so corrupt and decadent, and now the second gay marriage vote. Populism for some and a laying of early foundations signaling the supplicants he’s readying to thrust into the heart of liberalism, which yet feeds him, to leave this country rawer and more tribal. Canadians will be more self-sufficient in enclaves perhaps but less free and less aware and more pliable for ministers and marketers as we squabble over the moralities of our own private lots. You need to proudly defend values people forget they share starting with respecting our differences and protecting one another from needless suffering. This is a centre-left country that doesn’t want to admit it. Cheer us on.
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What is the corporatist neo-conservative ethic except greedy and undemocratic? Doesn't it publicly prize conformity over everything else? Doesn't it theorize if democracy actually worked we would descend into nihilism? This hasn’t happened so far so what does it want now? It’s power but to what end? And where in its perfections does it help those who are left behind?
Corruption at the founding convention of the Conservative party eh? I love the stench so early in summer.
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And what’s with shaking his kids’ hands as they leave for school?
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Liberals! Staring at your shoes because they tripped you up with the extension in Afganistan? Because their accountability law might make it too costly for enough delegates to come to your convention? Snap out of it! They're just trying to rattle you because they know you're still dangerous. Try lobbing some grenades yourself. Be it resolved this House affirms a woman’s right to chose. See the Tories stammer their way out of that one.
But my constituents might not like that. In the short run perhaps but in fact you’ll be upholding deeper values of theirs than affect that one issue. And this is war and you must realize that. You know what Harper wants. Look at his moves so far: the law saving poor horny fifteen-year-olds from the rapists, an ascetic accountability act, a cynical GST cut, a bunkered administration, siege language, the braying over the Supreme Court and Senate, the canceling of day care, the disdain for the media, the tarring of all things that don’t conform as liberal and so corrupt and decadent, and now the second gay marriage vote. Populism for some and a laying of early foundations signaling the supplicants he’s readying to thrust into the heart of liberalism, which yet feeds him, to leave this country rawer and more tribal. Canadians will be more self-sufficient in enclaves perhaps but less free and less aware and more pliable for ministers and marketers as we squabble over the moralities of our own private lots. You need to proudly defend values people forget they share starting with respecting our differences and protecting one another from needless suffering. This is a centre-left country that doesn’t want to admit it. Cheer us on.
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What is the corporatist neo-conservative ethic except greedy and undemocratic? Doesn't it publicly prize conformity over everything else? Doesn't it theorize if democracy actually worked we would descend into nihilism? This hasn’t happened so far so what does it want now? It’s power but to what end? And where in its perfections does it help those who are left behind?
posted by The Bitchy Poet at 9:00 p.m.
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And a great cheer went up from the masses (though it was a mild, suppressed cheer, as we are Canadian, after all)!
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