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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@May 9 2005, 08:04 PM
Ok, however I'm curious on why its so easy for the Liberals to sell the fact that the Conservatives are basically racist (KKK comments), don't have the best interests of Canadian's in mind (they're selling out health care) etc etc. And people buy it, I guess I'm wondering why the Liberals have so much credibility, and the Conservatives don't, especially basing this on the fact that this isn't the Conservatives of the 80's.
I'm just trying to straighten out in my mind, why Ontario finds the Conservatives to be such a threat.
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In the platform as stated I can see why people would disagree with some of the points.
In regards to health care...
"Maintain the Canada Health Act's guarantee of public funding for necessary services, but favour private delivery of some medicare services"
There are a lot of people that don't like the trend towards privatization no matter how small the steps are. There are people that are ideologically and philosophically opposed. The Conservatives have privatization of some health care services right in the material you provided. Some see it as a slippery slope.
I think their stance on "traditional marriage" shows people that they are catering to religious groups instead of striving for equality, tolerance, etc. That's a scary agenda to some. Suggests that they haven't struck the proper balance of separation between state and church. Suggests that perhaps in future issues they'll take the Christian side of a debate.
Some don't see pot smoking as any more significant than alcohol. Those people obviously wouldn't support the Tories stance on decriminalization.
Not as highlighted in this version of their platform is their idea about how we should respond to the US's demands on Missile Defense and things like that. I know a lot of people that don't agree with the US priorities and these people would not be in favour of basically bending over to American policy on some of these matters. This may be a matter of perception but it seems that in the past the Conservatives have promoted this issue. They have talked about sending troops to help the US in their wars which I think a lot of Canadians would very much disagree with.
I think there's a lot of "open" agendas here that a lot (probably the majority) of Canadians would disagree with. And their stance on some of these issues makes people wonder what their stance might be on future issue that have yet to be raised.
It's not all about the Liberal party brainwashing us or the credibility of the crooks. A lot of it boils down to people taking the opposite stance on issues than the Conservatives have taken. Sometimes Conservative supporters just don't seem to grasp that.
What's the problem with the Conservatives? I think it boils down to the fact that they aren't liberal enough for this fairly liberal country. The current version of the Conservatives is still too right wing to gain majority support IMO.