tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post3608469209659961208..comments2024-03-28T22:02:16.520-04:00Comments on Politics and its Discontents: Parsing Conservative LiesLornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-33157938601350388462017-08-02T09:33:30.858-04:002017-08-02T09:33:30.858-04:00Your commentary serves to amplify a key fact of to...Your commentary serves to amplify a key fact of today's politics, Sal, which is the that it is largely the promotion of self-interest, whether on an individual or corporate level, at the very high cost of sacrificing public interests and the common good. I have no ideas about how to change any of that, but it must surely start with an engaged and enraged electorate who show that they are not to be trifled with so egregiously.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-57288011789424235122017-08-02T08:50:46.133-04:002017-08-02T08:50:46.133-04:00.. what occurs to me, more and more.. is how littl..... what occurs to me, more and more.. is how little information or oversight.. or actual 'control' voters aka the electorate & citizenry of Canada really have about political parties. In particular the so called Conservatives, Liberals & NDP.<br /><br />They seem like original six or expansion hockey teams. Of course the fans don't know what the brain trust of scouts, management, coaches etc have in mind.. aside from trying to collect the best talent, or value for the dollar & put an effective entertaining product on the ice.. go deep into the playoffs & ideally hoist the cup. But we loyally cheer for our team, bemoan their losses, buy the merchandise, pay thru the nose to actually attend a game.<br /><br />In the case of 'politics' we are presented with the three main teams to cheer for or hate. The 'players' chosen are arranged via secret meetings or witchcraft at the local minor league level ie riding associations and get the support or blessing from the major league level ie a Trudeau or Scheer or some mysterious 'war room' cabal of say a mercenary like Kouvalis, a Jenni Byrne and various bagmen. How else to explain a complete loser like Rob Anders winning or losing the nomination.<br /><br />Party memberships are now like hockey cards.. collect all three! Just look at what is happening in Alberta.. an attempt by Jason Kenney, the eternal political opportunist to power grab the Premiership. Partisan mainstream media is in up its pointy ears in politics today. I say politics you'll note, not public service. Yet who eventually gets elected is purportedly.. a public servant. Not a whipped partisan jackass or evangel mouthpiece or big energy sellout.<br /><br />We're seeing the end times of the madness or disease.. the GOP were beaten down & embraced, all at the same time by Donald Trump, the Russians, the Koch brothers & Mercers et al, the big energy corporatist lobbyists and sheer ignorance & greed. Of course the GOP is all those entities at once. A huge - vast holier than thou consortium of entrenched, vested self interests.<br /><br />In Canada we have a party that celebrates such a monstrosity. Dr Kellie Leitch cleared that up quickly, declaring how exiting Trump's win was! Conservatives would kill to be on air with Sean Hannity or Alex Jones. Its simply phenomenal watching where political parties are headed. Its disasterville for concerned voters but Disneyworld for ignorant partisansthe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-16565375598889821962017-08-01T13:22:33.127-04:002017-08-01T13:22:33.127-04:00Every time Scheer and his ilk open their mouths, M...Every time Scheer and his ilk open their mouths, Mound, they demonstrate their absolute unfitness for public office.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-7279089961698549472017-08-01T12:20:02.454-04:002017-08-01T12:20:02.454-04:00I despair for our country, Lorne, that political d...I despair for our country, Lorne, that political discourse has fallen to this level. Scheer cannot seem to set the bar low enough for his purposes.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.com