The Conservatives appeal to the basest of our emotions and instincts. It's absolutely brilliant, and absolutely terrifying to anyone who can see past it.
Unfortunately, because of this appeal, they are bulletproof. Harper could rescind the Charter, make Christianity the state religion, and even put "soldiers with guns...in our cities", and they would still get a majority.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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