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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
lol, you wish.
American style attack ads were a staple of the Liberal campaigns in 2000, 2004 and 2006.
Actually, given some of the ads the Liberals produced, it would be an insult to American politics to compare them.
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So.... what you're saying is "two wrongs make a right."
In that case, my rejoinder is: "I'm rubber and you're glue."
How about this instead: let's all demand that our political culture reflect that we are different from Americans. Let's reject attack ads regardless of their source, by refusing to fall for their weak arguments. Let's think critically instead of like partisans.
Instead of asking our leaders where they came from, let's ask them
what they're going to do for us. Instead of asking how many stamps are in their passport, let's ask them probing questions about their platform.
Look: no-one is claiming that the Liberals are perfect (at least, I'm not). Nor that Harper is evil, though I do think he's a little out of his depth. But maybe we can dispense with the stupid nativism, the ad hominem fallacies, the attack ads, the blind partisanship and the regional bullheadedness... and then we can lay claim to a more mature and developed political culture than our friends to the South.
It's my fervent hope that we can do this, but when people actually trot out the nonsense from Harper's summer attack campaign as though it were a genuine political argument, I start to lose faith a little bit.