Well.
Bob Rae is out on tour. As he describes it, he is conducting "political therapy" for the Liberal Party, travelling the country listening to party members, trying to come to grips with why the Liberal party has been relegated to "third party status" for the first time since 1867.
Well, Bob, as a former Liberal Party member, now turned committed conservative, I can explain the problem to you quite easily.
You and your party have become the party of fat Asian cross dressers.
Well, not exactly.
That would be in insult to fat Asian cross dressers, making an assumption that every fat Asian cross dresser should, by definition, vote the same.
And therein lies the problem for the Liberal party.
You see, for all their talk about being the "progressive" party, in fact, their assumptions are racist, sexist, and discriminatory towards homosexuals.
You heard me.
They adopt stereotypes of what women want.
The adopt stereotypes of what homosexuals want.
They have become a party of narrow-minded zealots. They have tried and failed to be the party of special interests, ignoring the reality that there are fiscally conservative gay Canadians who don't, particularly, buy into David Suzuki's brand of environmental hysteria.
They have blithely treated all women as being the same - again, ignoring the reality that there are many Canadian mothers who DON'T think it's a good idea for the state to encourage everyone to put their kids in daycare on the public dime.
Even as they bristle at what they describe as Stephen Harper's "arrogance" in suggesting that traditional Liberal politics of exclusion is dead, they ignore the reality of his new majority government.
As reported in the Vancouver Sun:
As Harper put it, boastfully but quite accurately: "Our 166 members of Parliament represent every province and two out of three territories. We have representation in urban, suburban, rural and remote ridings. We have more women in our Conservative caucus than ever before. We have the largest aboriginal caucus ever. And we have the most culturally diverse caucus in parliamentary history.
They need to acknowledge that women are people. They need to acknowledge that visible minorities are people. That the disabled, the aboriginals, the gays and lesbians, and, yes, the fat Asian cross dressers, are people.
Just people.
People who don't necessarily trust government to screw with their lives.
People who would rather pay less taxes, not more.
People who, by and large, want to be given the ability to assert their own best interests and stand up on their own two feet - who want hand-ups, not hand-outs. People.
Like you and me.
Stephen Harper gets it, and Bob Rae doesn't.
But, then, it's always been difficult teaching a bigot to recognize his own intolerance.
2 comments:
Well the pic was a little disconcerting - but I get your point - political parties that take their voters for granted end up in "Liberal LaLa Land". Cheers.
Sorry for the shock, FS.. but my point is even broader than that.
If you craft policy to appeal to special interest groups, you not only alienate anyone who isn't in the group you're targeting - but you are also disrespecting the group being targeted.
Policy, really, needs to be broadly approached to answer the needs of ALL Canadians, not the "flavor of the day" loudmouths.
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