Canada Votes, or Not: Harper's Triple Blind

Monday, September 8, 2008

Harper's Triple Blind

What Harper can't see is that when there was a PC leader & a Reform Party leader; when there was a PC leader & an Alliance leader, we got to listen to both on tv debates; we could see & hear that the PC's were different than Reform-Alliance; and because we got to listen to both debates we now know for certain what is lacking in the present Conservative Party: progressive thought. The unprincipled behaviour is all too human. I'd sit down with Preston Manning before I would with Harper. For the PM is also blind to what is apparent to me: Liberals & Greens are different parties; their leaders hold different views on various matters, albeit the Liberal Party has baggage as well as an unfinished Just Society to build. Both are prepared to do something with green science & taxation, they will free individual enterprise from neo-corporatism, while Harper blinds himself to science without a sound theology to sustain him. He prays the oil men, pharmaceuticals, agribusinesses, bankers & republican Bush Leaguers can keep the dark forces of his rush flowing. Layton is in danger of following suit,albeit with different demons but neither May and Dion have those kinds of temptations. That's why I trust them, there's no time for demons. Besides which, Harper needs the power rush so badly he shares it with great reluctance, while Layton, the Greens, this version of the Liberals and even the Bloc are much more collegial, they know how to share.

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A Glossary of Canadian Politics by Me

Anarchist, a libertarian who wants as little government or state as conceivable, as little corporate/industrial organization as possible, as few community institutions as necessary, essentially preferring to be left alone to the company of others, or not, as they see fit, individually.

Bureaucrats, state administrators and employees.

Collectivist, a communitarian system of state ownership in which all decisions in socio-economic matters are made by the state for the good of the whole.

Communist, essentially a communitarian system, in which rationally planned production causes capitalism to unknowingly create its own successor. The politics of communism are both pragmatic and ideological in differing degrees depending on the nation and the governing style of its leadership, the goal being to aid the emergence of post-capitalist socio-economics.

Communitarian, someone who believes that community values govern individuals and the economy.

Commonwealth, a communitarian system in which charters from the Crown are used to control private ownership of national lands in order to provide free-hold commoner-citizens equal rights as governing classes in regards to accessing bounty from common food & water lands.
Cooperative Commonwealth, a system in which
non-landed commoner-citizens also have access to the bounty of the nation.

Conservative, a communitarian traditionalist who seeks to preserve the status quo of the past, in every stage of political evolution. In economics, one who supports the power of the holders of the status quo to regulate business in the best interests of the status quo holders.

Democrat, someone who believes that political and economic freedom is achieved and maintained by egalitarian government with the aid of a responsible state.

Government, temporary overseers of a given State in charge of establishing and overseeing the implementation of policy.

Green, a social movement, more than a political one, rooted in transforming consumer/producer paradigms before we kill ourselves off. In politics, it is rooted in the essential biological reality of symbiosis, in which bio-regional-localism and planetary necessities are weighed as mutual benefits for both individuals and communities.

Liberal, a libertarian who uses government to establish equity for individuals from social groups excluded from the commonwealth. In economics, one who generally supports a mixed economy in which competing interests are balanced through regulation, with a preference for laissez-faire capitalism.

Libertarian, someone who believes that an individual's freedom should seldom be limited by a community or a political-economy.

Progressive, a believer in humanity's ability to save itself through technology. Can be liberal or conservative in practice.

Republican, a system devised by Plato in which a succession of guardian classes govern society, a succession that is necessitated by the compromised integrity of the guardians whose pursuit of private property and profit make them unfit to govern. The initial guardians are warrior philosophers who own nothing, their phase decays into a timarchy, which rules as the military and the priests, followed by the rule of oligarchs, which is an alliance of police and business; leading to consumer democracy, in which everyone is pursuing property and profit at such frenzied rates that the final stage of republicanism is reached, the rise of a popular tyrant who restores law and order with force.

Social Democrat, a communitarian who believes that responsible government is the best means of achieving social equality and economic stability.

Socialist, a communitarian who believes that the state is the best means to ensure social equality and economic stability.

State, the ongoing overseer of government administration.

Tory, from Irish history, a supporter of the divine right of Kings to rule, and by extension in modern times, a believer in the divine rights of ruling classes to rule.

Just a start.

Canada Votes, or Not

Monday, September 8, 2008

Harper's Triple Blind

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