Extremist propoganda
Posted on June 25, 2004
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I’m no fan of the Conservatives and I’d be seriously disappointed if Stephen Harper were to get elected. I don’t think the continuation of the right-wing legacies set down by the Ralph Kleins and Mike Harrises of the country is what we need. I like this continued movement towards a more accepting, tolerant, benign Canada in which we generally leave people alone to live their personal lives and plundering the environment for pure profit isn’t considered a great idea (surprisingly I didn’t mind Ernie Eves but that may be because he wasn’t around long enough to piss me off in any appreciable way and he handled the blackout really quite well).
But I don’t think Harper is quite the Satan that this hysterical propoganda piece plays him out to be: Harper Villain, but wouldn’t it be cool if he was? When you villify your opponent and simplify his motives to this degree all it means is that you no longer have to make the effort to understand him. Just point a finger, scream “Eeeeeevil!” and then try to stake him through the heart.
Extremists, liberal, conservative, left-wing, right-wing, do no one a service.
But you know what really makes this piece so unbelievable? Bush is just too lucid; the words he uses are just too big.
(Thanks Kirsten!)