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?