tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post3719658811308965761..comments2024-03-27T07:47:11.168-07:00Comments on LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: My Planet, My PartyEUGENE PLAWIUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-37545437751987457692007-04-15T12:01:00.000-07:002007-04-15T12:01:00.000-07:00And I just wanted to say Jan that is really connec...And I just wanted to say Jan that is really connecting the dots between two disparate blog items, though you know it makes sense.....EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-75935135330683570402007-04-15T11:33:00.000-07:002007-04-15T11:33:00.000-07:00Or to put it another way Proportional Representati...Or to put it another way Proportional Representation and democratic reform that could actually allow the Greens or other smaller parties get elected thus widening the voices in Parliament have given way to Liberal Green Strategic voting.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-8788128533954764402007-04-15T11:25:00.000-07:002007-04-15T11:25:00.000-07:00Eugine, I want to connect some dots here with your...Eugine, I want to connect some dots here with your previous post neoconservatism and two elites essentially saying that we must limit individual choice to save the collective.<BR/>Similarly, Dion and May believe in the common principle "that the needs of the state (Canada and the planet)supersede the rights of the individual."<BR/>As you mentioned, "Strauss did not think that it matters which religion is embraced. A people needs its moral and legal code, and religion is something to base that on. Its "truth" need not be the real truth, since the little people are not capable of handling the real truth. The real truth is for the paternalistic elite, who will spin myths for the common people to believe in to keep them in line." The new religion is the saving the environment, the planet, and the little people needed to have less democracy by these elites working behind the scenes together as they know what's best.<BR/>You go in your previous post, to state that "The elite uses the preservation of western civilization as an excuse to create a sense of crisis and to aggrandize its own power at the expense of moral limits."<BR/>But really caught my eye was when you said this:"In cooked-up crises they cry gloom and doom, or take advantage in the cases of real crises, then claim problems are curable by the end of liberalism." Liberalism in this sense is the freedom to choose who one wants to vote for in this riding, thus the limiting of individual freedom.<BR/>Thus backroom deals as justification of a means to an ends, no matter if it limits citizen choices, supersides party constitutions or policies, as they have decided that the crisis of climate change means that any means justifies ends. <BR/>Funny, how just months ago, Dion sure didn't have that crisis as his mantra, or he would have doggedly been working at cleaning up the clean air act, May wouldn't have been wishing outloud that the clean air act committe failed, or that May wouldn't have supported Dion's first idea of intensity targets as great for the environment. I mean our planet is in crisis and how either of them a few short months ago could have accepted those environmental policies knowing the end is near. <BR/>But now it is all different. Pretty hard for me to believe all this sincerity now, and sure reminds of me of 1993 Cretien book 'Straight from the Heart' and how he was going to save Canada. Oh yah, I am a believer.susansmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02573558646874765432noreply@blogger.com