Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Anti-Harper crowd chase their tails

Once again, the anti-Harper crowd -- the opposition, the left-wing media in the Ottawa bubble -- are off chasing the latest shiny ball, hoping this one has more substance than glitter.

They love chasing shiny balls.

Their hatred of the Harper conservatives have had them chasing the insult of prorogation, the death of the long-form census, the so-called in-and-out scandal, the treatment of Afghan detainees, et cetera.

They might as well have been chasing their tails since Canadians obviously paid them no heed.

While no one in that anti-Harper, inside-Ottawa crowd knows anyone who voted for Harper, he was nonetheless somehow able to pull off an comfortable majority in the last election.

Must have been that latest shiny ball, his critics cry.

Must have been those robocalls.

Oh. My. God.

The election must be a fraud.

These are all media-led campaigns, of course. Neither the Liberals or the NDP have the brains to lead, so they follow the scent that the consensus media leaves as a slick.

It is getting them nowhere.

The latest Nanos poll, for example, which is post-robocall, shows national support for the Tories is still rock solid with a 35.7% approval rating, compared to 29.5% for the Liberals and 25% for the NDP.

The reason, of course, is that Canadians don't care what happens in the Ottawa bubble. They couldn't care less about the daily bullroaring in the House of Commons, or the latest shiny ball the parliamentary press gallery is chasing in its anti-Harper obsession.

Instead, Canadians care about the economy. They care about their jobs, their mortgage and their families.

They care what Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will do for them, or to them, in the March 29 budget.

They care about old age pensions -- one left-wing narrative which Harper's critics have given a bye.

Why? Too complex?

Over the weekend, Tory election campaign chairman, Guy Giorno, denied taking part in the robocall scandal, stating that suppressing a vote through robocalling was a "despicable, reprehensible practice," and that he would have known if there was a dirty trickster working under him.

He therefore had no qualms about Elections Canada's investigation.

Shiny balls are shiny balls.

Attractive yes, but hollow.

Original Article
Source: calgary sun
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