small dead animals: One Simple Question the Liberals Need to Ask Themselves
What follows is an inside-baseball discussion of Canadian political demographics. Me? I’d have them ask themselves a slightly different question:
Why, the more thoroughly that Marxism is implemented, the more it fails even at achieving its own stated goals?
About Bill Quick
I am a small-l libertarian with conservative leanings on most issues, except on many traditionally conservative social issues, where my stance would be regarded as hopelessly liberal by most social conservatives. My primary concern is to increase individual liberty as much as possible in the face of statist efforts to restrict it from both the right and the left. If I had to sum up my beliefs as concisely as possible, I would say, "Stay out of my wallet and my bedroom," "your liberty stops at my nose," and "don't tread on me." I will believe that things are taking a turn for the better in America when married gays are able to, and do, maintain large arsenals of automatic weapons, and tax collectors are, and do, not.
Conservatives in Canada went through this in the 90′s. It took until the early 00′s to get some real results, with the rise a new conservative party (Western Reform, later just Reform, in the early 90′s) merging with the tattered remnants of the old Progressive Conservative party (which STRONGLY presaged the current U.S. RINO “party”, except we called ‘em Red Tories here. Or at least I did).
Leaving Harper as the leader of the then-new Conservative Party of Canada almost 10 years ago. (Harper came from Reform)
CERDIP, although The Reform Party of Canada arose in Western Canada, it was never called The Western Reform Party. The Western Reform Party was a party in British Columbia. Involved in provincial politics, it was not affiliated with The Reform Party.
Derp. Therein lies the power of the media. I remember hearing them referred to “the western Reform Party”, that I assumed I was hearing the party name.
When I first voted for them in the late-90′s, it said “Reform Party of Canada” on the candidate’s ballot, so at that point I guess I assumed they had changed/morphed their name.