It scared me when I read in a local paper, that the Reform/Alliance now known as the Conservatives after forcing a merger with the Tories, were trying to soften their image and round out the sharp edges in preparation for the election now under way.
Why soften images? What sharp edges? Who will get injured by these sharp edges? Screw all that, just tell the truth.
It all smacks of deception to me.
How can we believe Stephen Harper when he claims to be an alternative to the ruling Liberals, if he is softening his image and rounding out sharp edges, to sell himself to voters?
Fact is, the Right is the wrong choice for the vast majority of citizens. Matter of fact, in this increasingly globalized world, the message of rightwingers offers exactly the wrong solutions in a complex world.
There may have been a time when rightwing policies made sense, if pure unadulterated greed and callous indifference to the plight of the poor and disenfranchised and unmitigated violence in defense to those policies can ever make sense. That time is long past. Never forget that those who espouse this brand of political governance, once claimed that the abolition of slavery and of forced child labour was uneconomical.
We only need look south of the border, down Americas way, to see the incredible damage rightwing policies cause.
The damage cuts through every aspect of a citizens life, from environmental damage, to the loss of life, limbs, liberty not to mention the staples of an ordinary workers life like overtime pay and of course the sheer contempt that American citizens are treated to the world over.
The neo-cons are ruling America and our neo-cons,
the Re-formed Alliance of Conservatives are in lockstep with them. Verily I say that I am scared to death of these guys ever taking power here in Canada.
Next segment; What if Conservatives actually told the truth?
And speaking of accountability, betcha old dollywolly can't write like this and he is making big bucks off of my dues!!
Thursday, May 27, 2004
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