Will Canadians repeat the big NeoCon mistake?
Cats: Canada, politics|Today is election day here.
Polls have indicated that Canadians are seriously flirting with the idea of giving a majority to the NeoCons who take their inspiration from their US NeoCon brethren – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Kristol, etc.
The NeoCon leader Stephen Harper has done an admirable job of keeping a lid on the socially conservative agenda of his party and politics. He hasn’t done such a great job of reading the global financial meltdown and has expressed a rather naive smugness about Canada’s place in that turmoil. He’s told bold-faced lies about fixed-date elections and broken promises to this end of the country.
With the carnage of the NeoCon mindset now before us in Iraq and on world markets, and with NeoCon governments declining in other Western democracies, some might find it a little surprising that a country such as Canada would now be seriously considering a NeoCon way of thinking and governing itself.
But Canadians will do what Canadians do.
And this time tomorrow we will all know if this country decides that the NeoCon way is to be the Canadian way.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:55 am
For your sake I hope Canadians wake up and toss Harper and his pals out.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
That would be sad irony if suddenly neo-cons forced decent-thinking Canadians to want to flee south to the liberal oasis of the US. It’s supposed to work the other way.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
He’s certainly not on MY eanie, meanie, miney, mow list…..
October 14th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Why can’t everybody just vote the way I want them to?
October 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
It is all so very exciting….. Yawwwwwwnnnnnnnnn!
October 15th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Please! You are the last fortress of the Free World! The world has turned against North America and you are our only wild card in pulling our collective name from the mire! In the past eight years America has trashed any respect we might have had in the world and no one takes Mexico too seriously. You have become the last soldier on the field who still battles for our second chance.
Even if you have to lie to me, tell me the Green Party won. All the hopes of one continent hinges on them. If they lose, all is lost. We will be written off by the rest of the world and forced to suffer the consequences. Let the voter’s experience a clarity of conscience and vote away from a system that is proven to not work.
“OBi Wan, you are our only hope”
Doc
October 15th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Dr. Monkey, thanks, but not quite
Bubs, excellent! And if the democrats win, that could be the case.
YAM, I couldn’t imagine he would be your pick
Nanc, I think it was pretty interesting last night. If they’d won a majority we’d wake up living in a very different country today.
Doc, thanks for your sweetness, but the NeoCons are on this rise here, ironically as they are on the decline everywhere else. Canada is a funny little country that way – always a little bit behind the times.
As for the Greens they won 7 percent of the popular vote, but no seats. As you say, our political system doesn’t really work for upstarts.