The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
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[+] 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)
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Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
The Triangulation of Power
The national disposition of today’s Canada is essentially a convergence of three prevailing cultural phenomena: the British character, the French character and the modern Liberal character. Though the latter one is only a federal political party per se, and not a distinctive monocultural force in the traditional sense, its brute (predominantly urban and regionally central) electoral success – particularly over the last forty years – has been such as to allow it to gradually cultivate a new national identity and remake the country in its own image. Be it the 1965 adopted maple leaf flag; Pearsonian peacekeeping and universal public healthcare; 1970s bilingualism and multiculturalism of the Trudeau era; the 1982 Constitution and Charter; the 1990s killing of the nation’s once proud military and slathering affection for the UN; the final unhinging of Canada from its historical role as a reliable transatlantic ally post 9-11; federally imposed gun control and now federally imposed same-sex marriage: have all been controversially accumulated under successive Liberal governments to transformative effect to the country at large. Apart from our remaining independent monarch, “Liberal” and “Canada” are now virtually synonymous to the point where attacking the values of the former is frequently rebuffed as an affront to the values and patriotism of the latter. Canada has for all intents and purposes degenerated from a bi-cultural nation-state into a nationally emblematic political party.
Thankfully, it can't last. As with any top-down elitist approach, citizens eventually become disconnected from the country they love if they don’t personally identify themselves with the agenda and providence of the powerful. The fact that Liberals have been able to single-handedly transform the country with only 38% popular support means it lacks the accepted legitimacy and authenticity required for permanence. The game is up once the permanently disenfranchised majorities in the regions outside Ontario wake from their sleeper and start asserting their regional authority. The seeming invincibility of the Liberal Party has always been based on their ruthless perfection of a game called political triangulation – not just right, centre and left triangulation; but regional and cultural triangulation. On advancing social policy for example, they have used socially liberal Quebecers in alliance with an English Canadian minority to foist a “progressive” agenda on an otherwise more conservative population outside of Quebec. Whether it is homosexual marriage, gun control, welfare statism, national bilingualism, foreign pacificism…the “unholy alliance” between Liberal federalists and Quebec separatists has perpetually disenfranchised the majority of English Canadians who hold fundamentally different cultural attitudes and values. Paradoxically, this appeasement of Quebec and French speaking Canadians more generally was intended to make them more comfortable and keep them in the country. Hugely unfortunate for Liberals, the strategy is not working.
For Quebecers are a profoundly nationalistic and patriotic people. Prior to their quest for independence, they dreamed of a reformed united Canada based on the concept of equality between two-founding peoples, rather than a confederation of ten equal provinces. Unlike the timidity of English-speaking Canadians, they have always resisted the triangulation juggernaut when used against them. Multiculturalism after all, was an English Canadian-Liberal invention that immediately failed everywhere in Quebec except in the Anglophone and immigrant ridings of Montreal. During the 1980 and 1995 referendums, Liberal Canada prevailed only with the total support and resources of a united effort outside of French-speaking Quebec. Hugely unfortunate for Liberals, they will not be able to count on the same support next time around.
The awful neglected truth of the matter for Liberals is that triangulation in theory can work just as well against you as it can for you. The disenfranchised Conservative West has never been comfortable forming an alliance with French Quebec against Liberal Canada because they know that it is politically suicide to their chances of forming a federal government. But what happens to that equation when hundreds of thousands of Westerners reach their tipping point? What happens when a whole region finally realizes that it will never equitably share power in a national government? What happens when they throw in the towel? Hugely unfortunate for Liberals, the triangulation of political power comes crashing to an end.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:51 p.m. | LINKS |
The national disposition of today’s Canada is essentially a convergence of three prevailing cultural phenomena: the British character, the French character and the modern Liberal character. Though the latter one is only a federal political party per se, and not a distinctive monocultural force in the traditional sense, its brute (predominantly urban and regionally central) electoral success – particularly over the last forty years – has been such as to allow it to gradually cultivate a new national identity and remake the country in its own image. Be it the 1965 adopted maple leaf flag; Pearsonian peacekeeping and universal public healthcare; 1970s bilingualism and multiculturalism of the Trudeau era; the 1982 Constitution and Charter; the 1990s killing of the nation’s once proud military and slathering affection for the UN; the final unhinging of Canada from its historical role as a reliable transatlantic ally post 9-11; federally imposed gun control and now federally imposed same-sex marriage: have all been controversially accumulated under successive Liberal governments to transformative effect to the country at large. Apart from our remaining independent monarch, “Liberal” and “Canada” are now virtually synonymous to the point where attacking the values of the former is frequently rebuffed as an affront to the values and patriotism of the latter. Canada has for all intents and purposes degenerated from a bi-cultural nation-state into a nationally emblematic political party.
Thankfully, it can't last. As with any top-down elitist approach, citizens eventually become disconnected from the country they love if they don’t personally identify themselves with the agenda and providence of the powerful. The fact that Liberals have been able to single-handedly transform the country with only 38% popular support means it lacks the accepted legitimacy and authenticity required for permanence. The game is up once the permanently disenfranchised majorities in the regions outside Ontario wake from their sleeper and start asserting their regional authority. The seeming invincibility of the Liberal Party has always been based on their ruthless perfection of a game called political triangulation – not just right, centre and left triangulation; but regional and cultural triangulation. On advancing social policy for example, they have used socially liberal Quebecers in alliance with an English Canadian minority to foist a “progressive” agenda on an otherwise more conservative population outside of Quebec. Whether it is homosexual marriage, gun control, welfare statism, national bilingualism, foreign pacificism…the “unholy alliance” between Liberal federalists and Quebec separatists has perpetually disenfranchised the majority of English Canadians who hold fundamentally different cultural attitudes and values. Paradoxically, this appeasement of Quebec and French speaking Canadians more generally was intended to make them more comfortable and keep them in the country. Hugely unfortunate for Liberals, the strategy is not working.
For Quebecers are a profoundly nationalistic and patriotic people. Prior to their quest for independence, they dreamed of a reformed united Canada based on the concept of equality between two-founding peoples, rather than a confederation of ten equal provinces. Unlike the timidity of English-speaking Canadians, they have always resisted the triangulation juggernaut when used against them. Multiculturalism after all, was an English Canadian-Liberal invention that immediately failed everywhere in Quebec except in the Anglophone and immigrant ridings of Montreal. During the 1980 and 1995 referendums, Liberal Canada prevailed only with the total support and resources of a united effort outside of French-speaking Quebec. Hugely unfortunate for Liberals, they will not be able to count on the same support next time around.
The awful neglected truth of the matter for Liberals is that triangulation in theory can work just as well against you as it can for you. The disenfranchised Conservative West has never been comfortable forming an alliance with French Quebec against Liberal Canada because they know that it is politically suicide to their chances of forming a federal government. But what happens to that equation when hundreds of thousands of Westerners reach their tipping point? What happens when a whole region finally realizes that it will never equitably share power in a national government? What happens when they throw in the towel? Hugely unfortunate for Liberals, the triangulation of political power comes crashing to an end.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:51 p.m. | LINKS |
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