tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post4414900718940490298..comments2023-08-01T04:17:03.628-04:00Comments on Liberal Arts and Minds: Me, Myself and AyeKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291881352139075405noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-7696141559602096422011-05-22T19:11:16.787-04:002011-05-22T19:11:16.787-04:00Thanks Brian. I think it's pretty entrenched, ...Thanks Brian. I think it's pretty entrenched, but agree with you, we should learn how to counter.<br /><br />I'm not as convinced that they will stop using it. What I've noticed in Cda is that it is a credo of sorts. It is in the US too, but they have lived by that divide for a very long time. Here, it's new, novel. There is a giddiness to speaking out and being selfish. See SunTV, listen to talk radio in TO post the Ford election. They give license to this behaviour.<br /><br />We do need to fight/counter it and it will take some time to change it.<br /><br />Interestingly, I happen to think most ppl do not think this way, but don't have the time to think it through.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291881352139075405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-36160952332079148052011-05-22T14:00:23.481-04:002011-05-22T14:00:23.481-04:00Good Post! One of the side effects of this kind o...Good Post! One of the side effects of this kind of politics is that poeople begin to demand that all policy is related to them. "I don't have kids, so why should I care about education funding," etc. It promotes un-healthy selfisheness, and promotes division over unity.<br /><br />The problem is that it is a strategy developed to counter old style campaigning. Until the LPC figures out the counter strategy to this type of campaigning (and the counter is well known and documented, it's how Obama won), we will continue to lose to this pathetic strategy. Once we prove we know how to beat them at this game, they will stop using it.Brian G. Ricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18022250772435998812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-43958278759791074122011-05-18T23:01:29.419-04:002011-05-18T23:01:29.419-04:00Yes... please do (just give me credit... lol...).Yes... please do (just give me credit... lol...).WesternGrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658358114507615351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-74030570138844622052011-05-18T15:34:44.417-04:002011-05-18T15:34:44.417-04:00"Walmart" of Canadian politics.
Can I ...<i>"Walmart" of Canadian politics. </i><br /><br />Can I borrow that line? <br /><br />:)sassyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10423260743909863283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-45005842010218464022011-05-17T19:14:08.239-04:002011-05-17T19:14:08.239-04:00WILLY I'm not sure we disagree. I think there ...WILLY I'm not sure we disagree. I think there has been an era of consulting ridings, taking the laments and on both sides expecting the higher up's to solve the problem.<br /><br />In more recent times, the lower power has said, no, don't just listen and solve, take our solutions. We can do this together.<br /><br />Listening is good, discussion and collaboration is much more contemporary and better in my view.<br /><br />You don't think the leadership of the party (many of whom I respect btw) has told us how we will go forward, what we will present?Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291881352139075405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-12630145549194439722011-05-17T19:01:50.083-04:002011-05-17T19:01:50.083-04:00Sorry the damn iPad caused me to post too soon ;)
...Sorry the damn iPad caused me to post too soon ;)<br /><br />What I was rambling towards was this...<br /><br />I think there will be an opportunity after 4 years of Harper for the Liberals to regain many voters from both the right & the left, if you all get your act together.WILLYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507295892199741837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-31218414968422236372011-05-17T18:58:53.238-04:002011-05-17T18:58:53.238-04:00I was with you right up until you said "give ...I was with you right up until you said "give them the solution" because it is never just one solution. As much as the liberal party has been ridiculed as being the mushy middle, neither right nor left that was for me what made it appealing. The single solution is more like the brand marketing of Harper, Layton and Walmart.<br /><br />There is a lot a talk about the rebuilding of the Liberal party and how it must stand for something, policies that hopefully are important to Canadians. In the end you are trying to get their vote. But I hope that there is some recognition that many voters and non voters are tiring of theWILLYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507295892199741837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-65651171266206521502011-05-17T18:52:16.418-04:002011-05-17T18:52:16.418-04:00deBeauxOs Many thanks! I appreciate your comments ...deBeauxOs Many thanks! I appreciate your comments because I really think we should be having this discussion and would love to involve more people.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291881352139075405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-44196759459024267822011-05-17T18:46:21.499-04:002011-05-17T18:46:21.499-04:00Had Susan Delacourte not tweeted your excellent an...Had Susan Delacourte not tweeted your excellent and timely blogpost, I might have missed it.<br /><br />No votes at ProgBlogs!?!?!<br /><br />What's wrong with you?!?!?<br /><br />Go vote for your post. It's worth it . I just did.deBeauxOshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08331662556005876488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-83464493193249266082011-05-17T18:16:58.993-04:002011-05-17T18:16:58.993-04:00Indeed. There is a lot out there on this subject a...Indeed. There is a lot out there on this subject and I think it's an important part of moving forward.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291881352139075405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-86023654183485830422011-05-17T17:42:57.129-04:002011-05-17T17:42:57.129-04:00Indeed... the Conservative Party is the "Walm...Indeed... the Conservative Party is the "Walmart" of Canadian politics. Selling cheap ideas to unwitting subscribers, often empty of substance - and certainly not better for the greater community.<br /><br />We now just need to find the bookend answer to this brand of retail politics. Think of what you don't like about Walmart, and how your local store is better.WesternGrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658358114507615351noreply@blogger.com