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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Here's one of Raj Sherman's tweets:
In his defence though, he was trying to paint BOTH Wildrose and PC as scary.
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Not much of a defense, and yeah that definitely qualifies as that kind of message, and I agree that's a terrible thing to tweet.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I think that if you want to see where Canadian politics went off the rails, go back to when the federal Liberals began running attack ads against the mysterious hidden agenda of the federal Conservatives. They changed their focus from attacking policy and record to attacking hidden demons that only they could see. And that has continued almost with out break for many years now. Soldiers... with guns... in our streets.
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Were they the first? There's been attack ads going both ways for as long as I can remember (though much much less than in the US).
Even if they were the first, I don't think it's an ideological thing that being liberal requires one to run attack ads, so I don't think it's fair to blame it on the left.. better to blame it on the ones who did it, not on what side of the political spectrum they happen to be on.
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For some, it has gotten to the point of zealotry - e.g.: Bridget Depape. People who are so utterly convinced that the problem with the federal Conservatives, and now Wildrose, isn't that their policy is bad, but that they are, simply, evil. That, frankly, is ridiculous and damaging to Canadian politics.
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Totally agree on the zealotry, Canada isn't nearly as bad as the US but I did see it this election, from both sides. I listened to QR77 this morning a bit and the reactions from some people you'd think that Alberta had just converted to communism or something.
In the US at a high level the fanaticism even makes it harder for the government to govern!
I think it's a bigger problem with society though, not just politics.