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Originally posted by Flames Draft Watcher@May 9 2005, 01:40 PM
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.
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I think you're right when you say Canadians generally don't support any kind of (small c) conservative agenda, and your post is pretty much bang on.
But you've also highlighted some of the bizarro world aspects of canadian politics.
We have virtually no philosphical stance on theft and corruption, to say nothing of being inept, but we have a philosophical attachment to who delivers free health care.
We're petrified of what parties *might* do, even when there's almost no rational basis for it, but are willing to completely forgive what the party in power actually *is* doing.
And I don't just mean federal politics. Short of our new record low of outright theft, almost any charge you can level at the federal liberals can be equally planted on provincial governments, including Alberta's.
We're so amazingly afraid of change. It's unhealthy.