Political Staples

Modern “progressives” come cut from a neo-Marxist cloth. They hate anything “other” than them and only believe themselves fit for power. They confuse Marxism with democracy and democracy with facism. Most modern progressives also do not understand complex political mechanizations and merely only believe that their own views are correct at any cost.

I fear this coalition will succeed and Canada will pay a dear, dear price. We already have for forfeiting civics education in our schools for marxist oppression theory, queer theory and gender identity politics.

Kill the pig! Bash his head! Kill the pig! I`m sorry, you were saying.

Im not 100% convinced yet that were headed for a coalition government. I still think there’s a very good chance that Harper will withdraw the fiscal update completely and table a budget on Friday that will knock the steam out of the coalition plans.

I have had a lot of response from non-partisan “progressives”, but not through the blogosphere. I find that bloggers tend to be pretty one-sided on most things, moreso than the average voter. Most “progressive” bloggers are likely not much more than anti-conservatives or partisans.

I support the coalition, but I do have misgivings. Although not not NOT because “the Canadian people did not vote for a coalition government”—that’s just silly. The Canadian people din’t vote for ANY government, they each voted in their individual ridings for their respective MPs. In fact, by that argument, more of us “voted for” the proposed government than voted for the one we have now. Think about it, man. That one won’t stand up to more than thirty seconds of scrutiny.

No, my misgivings are about stability, mostly. I’m really not crazy about the fact that the first coalition in the “my god, we have to start forming coalitions” era is going to be a minority one. And in fact, this will be an even weaker minority government than the current Conservative one. Any strife within the coalition (and remember that Canadian partisan politicians have NO IDEA how to play nice with people in other parties—they’re just not used to it), any seats lost, and it could get even weaker.

But I still support it. Not because I’m a “progressive”—in fact, not for partisan or even policy reasons at all. I support it because Harper has proven once and for all that he is simply incapable of running a minority government like a minority government. And if some other combination of parliamentarians is pledging to do just that, and there’s a chance they’ll actually be able to, I think it’s important that we let them try.

I don’t have any illusions that the new coalition will save the world and make hot cocoa for everyone, but I’m pretty confident that they’ll end up governing more cooperatively than the Conservatives have done.

The Conservatives were not duly elected. Don’t forget that we don’t elect governments, here, we elect parliaments. No Canadians cast any ballot for the prime minister, save for the 308 members of parliament that we elected to represent our views, riding by riding, and Stephen Harper failed to secure the support of the majority of those MPs.

Those remaining MPs are entirely in their rights to respect the views of those voters who voted them into office to decide that somebody else should sit in the prime minister’s chair. It’s legal, constitutional and, quite frankly, moral and ethical.

I support the coalition for one reason only, to get rid of Stephen Harper. If the Tories tossed him overboard and put Jim Prentice in his place and Prentice promised to run things differently, I think the steam would go out of the coalition movement. This whole thing is about Harper and his lack of judgment and leadership.

Agreed. If Harper were to prorogue and then resign as leader of the Conservatives, possibly handing power to Prentice, it would be the closest thing the Conservatives would have to a reset button.