"Some 41 per cent of American voters identify themselves as conservative," claims John Micklethwaite, U.S. editor of The Economist — a figure he says points to a deeper rightward shift in American culture and politics.
Micklethwaite and an Economist colleague, Adrian Wooldridge, have just published a book with the double-entendre title of The Right Nation. At a recent Carnegie Institute panel in New York they claimed that the Republican victory in the 2000 U.S. presidential election consolidated what was already a pronounced decline in the influence of progressive "liberals" who have dominated American domestic and foreign policy for decades.
Stumble It!
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RickW
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If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan
When will it ever sink in that the extreme right would like to drown babies at birth if they haven't got a silver spoon in their mouth, or at least the potential of becoming wealthy.
I'm not quite sure how the right knows this in advance, but they try to tell us that they know what is best for our country, the poor be damned !!
The poor, I am sure, didn't plan it this way.
Any wealthy person that tells you that they became wealthy on their own is a liar.
Or, they inherited a bunch of companies and money in the bank.
I still think of the brain-dead Paris Hilton when it comes to inheritances. What a waste !!
It takes a little luck, a little knowledge, and a lot of contacts.
How was it that Martin leveraged a huge loan to buy CSL, not counting that Maurice Strong was in his corner.
We should all be so lucky !!!
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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca
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Dave Ruston
The article posted here is generally about the US, which has the distinction among industrial nations of having its political centre on the right, instead of in the centre.
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If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan
As a prime example, I hear constantly in the media from conservatives statements that Canada needs to lower our taxes to stimulate our economy. Unfortunately, I have yet to see any kind of analysis from cons that shows any kind of comparison between Canada's taxes and other OECD countries (the US in particular). On the other hand, I read things from the CCAP (www.policyalternatives.ca), Mel Hurtig's books, or Linda McQuaig's books and I get detailed analysis that actually deals in numbers instead of just blank statements that everyone is expected to believe out of hand.
I find the right doing the same thing with the whole healthcare and private delivery debate. During the last big debate in Alberta about this, Klein stood up in the legislature with a report from the fraser institute claiming he had a report that found that private delivery was better. One problem though, the report didn't contain facts or figures to back their claims; again, just blank statements that people are supposed to accept on faith.
to reply. Neoliberalism in the 90s was the shift in
Canada and Glen Clark represents it as much as
Martin. Today the so-called Conservatives have little to
do with conservativism per se beyond the term used for
their moral majority reactionary social conservatism.
The last election was heartening in that it did show
Canadians were not buying War on Terror
Neconservatism. The degree to which we are still
buying into authoritarian government directed by global
corporate interests is however something many
Canadians don't seem to register as of yet.
Mike
What other fairy tales do you have up your sleeve ?
Where do you get your info ??
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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca