The Invisible Counterpoint

Re: There is a way. It will be painful and you have already suffered much for the cause. It is possible if we can get a movement going, to retake the BC Liberal party back from the fascista and send them packing off to the welcoming arms of Wilf Hurd over at BC's Neocon central. The party itself is very weak with almost no attendance at constituency meetings and almost no grassroots fund raising. It is ripe for a progressive counterattack. Tell your Green friends that now is the time to rally and gain control of the ruling political machine. It is very easy for determined special interest groups to hijack political party's in Canada because the electorate is so disinterested. For inspiration look at David Orchard a far left progressive who almost beat Joe Clark for Conservative party leader. Look at how Harper and Stockwell Day and the religious right were able to hijack the ReformaTories. Look at how the Gordo and his media wing was able to wipe out Gordon Wilson who was...

Articles like this one do continue to prop up the idea that if only the centre-left would get a fair hearing, the Canadian populace would receive them well. Most of the left, it seems, still believe that the only way you could have an economic/political system exist which produces a country of haves-and-have-nots, which wastes enormous resources and destroys the lives of countless in wars -- and which does much the same with the environment -- which works against the best interest of those who vote for those who continue the system's existence, is because people have been misinformed or left uninformed, by the evil powers of the misanthropic status-quo. I don't believe this is the case, and instead think that the reason progressives are only so well received in this country, is not because the wrong books/papers/arguments have been put before the populace, not because other viewpoints have been stigmatized or hidden, but because too many Cdns are not raised with sufficient ...

Articles like this one do continue to prop-up the idea that if only the centre-left would get a fair hearing, the Canadian populace would receive them well. Most of the left, it seems, still believe that the only way you could have an economic/political system exist which produces a country of haves-and-have-nots, which wastes enormous resources and destroys the lives of countless in wars -- and which does much the same with the environment -- which works against the best interest of those who vote for those who continue the system's existence, is because people have been misinformed or left uninformed, by the evil powers of the misanthropic status-quo. I don't believe this is the case, and instead think that the reason progressives are only so well received in this country is not because the wrong books/papers/arguments have been put before the populace, not because other viewpoints have been stigmatized or hidden, but because too many Cdns are not raised with sufficient n...