Friday, April 29, 2011

A New Deal For Liberal Stalwarts

This completely surprising surge in the polls for the NDP has caused me to reconsider one of my hopes for Canadian politics.

I've long argued that the Liberals representing the mushy middle of Canadian politics could not stand the strains of the inevitable breakdown of late-capitalism. I always thought (hoped) that the Liberal Party of Canada would die, so that the battle could be between the superstitious cromagnons of the Conservative Party and that the party that resisted that would be the NDP (which at least acknowledges that capitalism is flawed to some degree).

The worst thing in the world would be for the battle to be between the Conservatives (behaving very much like US Repugnican slime-balls, religious freaks, morons, and psychopaths) and the Liberals (pretending to oppose most of the extremist corporate-imperialist agenda, but only acting like more mature, technocratic enforcers of the same anti-human agenda, like the USA's Democrats).

But here's the deal Liberals. (By that I mean: those Liberals whose activism is based on careerism; those Liberals like the guy at Eugene Forsey Liberal who has principled disagreements with the NDP (some good, some not-so-good); and those people who genuinely believe that the harpercons are freaks and that Jack Layton is a lefty-extremist [?!?], even though they like medicare, the CPP, and etc.,) If you find yourself in third-party status, and harper has a minority, there's still a way to salvage something from the wreckage.

Join up with the NDP to form a majority, and use it to destroy harper and the harpercons. Let's haul harper and assorted minions up on war crimes charges. Let's expose the assaults on democracy the harpercons indulged themselves with and heap them with opprobrium. Let's formally legislate safeguards for Canada's parliamentary system which harper abused because they were only customs and conventions, and let's explain to Canadians in minute detail why this is important and why harper was so bad to have broken these trusts.

In short, join with the NDP in enforcing accountability, even if only to destroy the harpercons as a political force so that you, the Liberals can move into their place.

Maybe, if this happens, it could be a sign of the superiority of our political culture to the entirely-debased-by-capitalist-hubris USian political system.

Whaddaya say?

5 comments:

wondering said...

wh00t! Boy howdy, would I ever like to see the Conservative (extreme) right and have the centerist-right Liberals becoming the right-most party.

Send the soc-cons off to the Christian Heritage party where they belong. (Non-Christian soc-cons of course may feel free to form their own parties.)

wondering said...

CRAP! That should say "see the Conservative (extreme) right DIE..."

Anonymous said...

I agree. One of the very first things Prime Minister Layton would need to do is appoint an investigator for the war crimes allegations.

thwap said...

wondering,

I`m thinking about taking a break from blogging anything big for a while. I`ve been skipping words, forgetting to end sentences, etc., for a while. Distracted, hurried. Ah well.

But yeah, now that i think about it, having the Libs take over the Canadian right-wing rather than have the harpercons do their vile Repugnican impression would really be a credit to our country.

Troy,

If harper doesn`t win, let`s make war crimes charges for him and all the other suspects the first order of business.

Atlanta Roofing said...

Truthfully, I'd like to see the NDP get a crack as the official opposition. I'm curious to see how and where they would make concessions on their ideologies, as is necessary when applying ideals to practical situations. I'm not especially hopeful, but I am curious.