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Originally Posted by MarchHare
You just don't get it, do you?
When university-affiliated politicos make left-wing policy suggestions, they're pointy-headed ivory tower intellectuals who think they're better than everyone else. When university-affiliated politicos make right-wing policy suggestions, they're common-sense conservatives standing up for the little guy and telling it like it is.
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One of the great successes of the conservative movement over the last 20 years has been to change the way people and ideas are framed. For example intellectual = elite = liberal, common people = hard-working ordinary Canadians = conservative, liberal = socialist = tax and spend, conservative = common sense = financially responsible.
The fact that Tom Flanagan is nothing if not an intellectual; oil company executives are nothing if not elites; unionized workers are nothing if not hard-working ordinary Canadians; the Harper government is one of the more profligate in recent memory, etc. doesn't seem to come across as irony.
Another good one is the constant complaining about the 'liberal media'. Apart from the Toronto Star and at times the CBC it's pretty hard to find a major media outlert that isn't solidly behind a financially conservative corporate agenda. [edit] not that there's anything wrong with a financially conservative agenda, just spare me the complaints about the liberal lamestream media.