mr-trudo

Unless Iggy becomes PM

Seriously, you'd have to be an anarchist or a terrorist to say you don't support the troops. Yet, this simple slogan repetition wrapped up in patroitism scares me as it seems to have a mind numbing effect. The real debates ends, passion takes over reason and a self-censored debate begins. The debate becomes support our troops, our troops always agree and follow the government, you don't agree with our government, you are against our troops and you become the enemy of our beloved troops and our nation. And in comes Anne Coulter with death threats and FOX News proclaiming the government should silence you. This was a tactic adopted by the US Conservatives in "War on Terror" and Canadian Conservatives are now adopting it with Lowell Green replacing Anne Coulter and so on. A side note, notice many support the troops stickers became more passionate, replacing "the" with "our" and are now adopting US flags and Blue, the colour of the Conservative party. As a previous poster mentioned strong "support our troops" people in Ottawa, which is easily the most Conservative major city in Canada after Calgary. It just further backs my point. The Canadian Conservatives are merely followers of the American Conservatives who believe in one big global American Conservative empire, as drawn out in the Project for a New American Century. It angers me to see the Conservatives hijack people's patroitism and respect for public servants who regularly risk their lives for the public good for their own agenda. When you get people so passionate thinking only in simple slogans and mindless patroitism, they follow the government blindly and when that has happened, it is because people wouldn't follow the government otherwise. My reaction to the latest poll is one of relief that so many people are still thinking and seeing a couple bumperstickers and red shirt fridays is nothing but a psychological trick and Tory propaganda stunt that everyone is following their government and their policies. Or are they? the actual party polls don't reflect it. But sooner or later, the new Liberal minority government will end the combat as they respond to public opinion as everyone can agree, the Liberals are either centrist, opportunistic, or both.