The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Friday, June 17, 2005
MSD Wisdom II
Walsingham started a tradition on this blog to re-post from time to time comments made by MSD, intelligent political observations that we call "MSD Wisdom". That first summary of wisdom described "the Liberal method", the incredibly successful political method the Liberal Party of Canada uses to perpetually hold onto power; the way they deliberately nurture a culture of dependency amongst the citizenry and then devilishly cast the contenders as a threat to Liberal government spoils. The most recent array of comments by MSD over the past two weeks follow along the lines of a separate though related theme on how the Liberals keep doing it: by casting their opponents as unCanadian and shamelessly wrapping their political values in the Canadian flag.
"CANADIAN VALUES"
One of the most salient features of modern-day liberalism is its intellectual laziness. Once characterized by original and avant-garde ideas, liberalism has unwittingly turned its back on its animating principles and morphed into its own antithesis.
The Liberal Party of Canada and a good chunk of the Canadian electorate reflects this laziness. In a world where the virtues of "change" are paid a lot of lip service, Canadian politics are all about avoiding change, seemingly at any cost to our liberty. The status quo has become sacrosanct.
That is what I believe is behind the aversion to Harper. He represents the possibility of change which the Liberal faithful are so evidently afraid of. Seemingly the only way to assuage the suspicion of Harper and the CPC in the east is to make the party as close a copy of the Liberals as possible. Which of course amounts to eliminating the need to make a real choice and thus defeats the whole point of democracy.
The obvious, and most shocking, conclusion is that Canadians (or at least enough of them to keep the Liberals in power) are no longer interested in democracy, which is all about making choices as free citizens. So lazy have we become that we've simply wrapped ourselves in the comfortable old cloak of "Canadian values" and turned our backs on the world.
Canadians have become what we've always smugly accused the Americans of being: selfish and insular. We have accepted the Trudeaupian fantasy as the best that we can be and simply can't be bothered to entertain the notion that maybe we could have even a teensy-weensy bit wrong.
In representing an alternative view, even the pale and watered down one it is, Harper is a reminder that there are other paths that Canada might take in the future, some of which might run counter to our received Trudeaupian wisdom.
Frankly, I don't think a lot of Canadians are up to the challenge of facing the twenty-first century. They would rather sleep and let the Liberals continue to look after us forever, to protect us from "scary people" with dangerous new ideas, and above all never ever ask us to think or make any hard decisions.
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It's a curious aspect of human nature that those who most vehemently champion a virtue are the least likely to exhibit that virtue themselves. Likewise, those who most strongly deplore a weakness are themselves the most likely to be susceptible to it themselves.
Hence, the objection of the Canadian government, Papa Jean Chretien in particular, to Conrad Black's peerage. Our rulers would have us believe, once again, that such a distinction is incompatible with "Canadian values" and therefore must be denied.
Yet the Liberal Party, especially Chretien and Martin, is all about power and prestige, influence and advantage. They certainly aren't driven by conviction or principle. It's all about naked ambition, about getting power and keeping it, no matter what the cost.
It is the ultimate outrage that such hollow men should see it as their place to block the awarding of a peerage, or any other title of distinction, to a (supposedly) free citizen of a (supposedly) free country.
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I am also convinced that the Liberals and their cheerleaders in the media have done a masterful job at equating the Liberal party with "Canadian values" in the minds of many Canadians. The media directs the propaganda by incessantly repeating the "values" mantra and by deviously discrediting the opposition. The Liberal Party itself channels public funds in support of those "values", thus creating and nurturing dependency on many levels.
Finally, Canada's dysfunctional system of federal government allows the whole Liberal juggernaut to maintain its choke hold on power with the support of a mere thirty-eight per cent, effectively disenfranchizing the majority 62%, as the Monarchist correctly points out.
This is what makes the status quo so unjust and ultimately unsustainable. It is what will, if uncorrected, drive Alberta and possibly Quebec from the Canadian fold. It may also cause the contorted and overstressed Canadian pipe to break in other ways, as yet unforeseen.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:43 p.m. | LINKS |
Walsingham started a tradition on this blog to re-post from time to time comments made by MSD, intelligent political observations that we call "MSD Wisdom". That first summary of wisdom described "the Liberal method", the incredibly successful political method the Liberal Party of Canada uses to perpetually hold onto power; the way they deliberately nurture a culture of dependency amongst the citizenry and then devilishly cast the contenders as a threat to Liberal government spoils. The most recent array of comments by MSD over the past two weeks follow along the lines of a separate though related theme on how the Liberals keep doing it: by casting their opponents as unCanadian and shamelessly wrapping their political values in the Canadian flag.
"CANADIAN VALUES"
One of the most salient features of modern-day liberalism is its intellectual laziness. Once characterized by original and avant-garde ideas, liberalism has unwittingly turned its back on its animating principles and morphed into its own antithesis.
The Liberal Party of Canada and a good chunk of the Canadian electorate reflects this laziness. In a world where the virtues of "change" are paid a lot of lip service, Canadian politics are all about avoiding change, seemingly at any cost to our liberty. The status quo has become sacrosanct.
That is what I believe is behind the aversion to Harper. He represents the possibility of change which the Liberal faithful are so evidently afraid of. Seemingly the only way to assuage the suspicion of Harper and the CPC in the east is to make the party as close a copy of the Liberals as possible. Which of course amounts to eliminating the need to make a real choice and thus defeats the whole point of democracy.
The obvious, and most shocking, conclusion is that Canadians (or at least enough of them to keep the Liberals in power) are no longer interested in democracy, which is all about making choices as free citizens. So lazy have we become that we've simply wrapped ourselves in the comfortable old cloak of "Canadian values" and turned our backs on the world.
Canadians have become what we've always smugly accused the Americans of being: selfish and insular. We have accepted the Trudeaupian fantasy as the best that we can be and simply can't be bothered to entertain the notion that maybe we could have even a teensy-weensy bit wrong.
In representing an alternative view, even the pale and watered down one it is, Harper is a reminder that there are other paths that Canada might take in the future, some of which might run counter to our received Trudeaupian wisdom.
Frankly, I don't think a lot of Canadians are up to the challenge of facing the twenty-first century. They would rather sleep and let the Liberals continue to look after us forever, to protect us from "scary people" with dangerous new ideas, and above all never ever ask us to think or make any hard decisions.
-----
It's a curious aspect of human nature that those who most vehemently champion a virtue are the least likely to exhibit that virtue themselves. Likewise, those who most strongly deplore a weakness are themselves the most likely to be susceptible to it themselves.
Hence, the objection of the Canadian government, Papa Jean Chretien in particular, to Conrad Black's peerage. Our rulers would have us believe, once again, that such a distinction is incompatible with "Canadian values" and therefore must be denied.
Yet the Liberal Party, especially Chretien and Martin, is all about power and prestige, influence and advantage. They certainly aren't driven by conviction or principle. It's all about naked ambition, about getting power and keeping it, no matter what the cost.
It is the ultimate outrage that such hollow men should see it as their place to block the awarding of a peerage, or any other title of distinction, to a (supposedly) free citizen of a (supposedly) free country.
-----
I am also convinced that the Liberals and their cheerleaders in the media have done a masterful job at equating the Liberal party with "Canadian values" in the minds of many Canadians. The media directs the propaganda by incessantly repeating the "values" mantra and by deviously discrediting the opposition. The Liberal Party itself channels public funds in support of those "values", thus creating and nurturing dependency on many levels.
Finally, Canada's dysfunctional system of federal government allows the whole Liberal juggernaut to maintain its choke hold on power with the support of a mere thirty-eight per cent, effectively disenfranchizing the majority 62%, as the Monarchist correctly points out.
This is what makes the status quo so unjust and ultimately unsustainable. It is what will, if uncorrected, drive Alberta and possibly Quebec from the Canadian fold. It may also cause the contorted and overstressed Canadian pipe to break in other ways, as yet unforeseen.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:43 p.m. | LINKS |
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