Witnessing the current state of affairs in our great neighbour to the south, the word polarization leaps to the tongue. In a previous post I suggested what we call polarization is really the right-wing of the conservative movement running off the rails into extremism. The current behaviour of the Republicans
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Views from the Beltline: What polarization?
Do conservatives like democracy? That may seem like an unfair question. And for many conservatives it may be. Bur it seems there are many who don’t, and they are very much in the news these days. As the premier example, I offer those American Republicans that have rejected the 2024
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: A Letter to my Conservative-voting Neighbour: A Guest Post by Lloyd Lovatt
Lately Ms Soapbox has been thinking about how to talk to her conservative friends without falling even further down the rabbit hole of polarization. Then a friend sent me this letter which acknowledges the sadness a Lougheed conservative must feel at the loss of their party and suggests we reach
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Poisoning The Wells In Canadian Politics
By now, we’re probably all sick of hearing about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and everything to do with him. However, it’s worth considering just how he got elected in the first place, how things got so bad, and what its larger implications are for Canada. Even before Ford became mayor,
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Let’s Just Say It: When It Comes to Science, The Right is the Problem
polar_House_Means.jpg This weekend in The Washington Post, two deans of the Washington establishment, the Brookings Institution’s Thomas Mann and the American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein, finally stated what has been increasingly obvious: The problem with U.S. politics is coming from the right, not from “both sides.” In their piece, provocatively
Continue readingPample the Moose: A polarized Canada
Several weeks ago, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette called me up for a conversation about a feature she was writing about the increasingly polarized nature of Canadian politics. We talked for about an hour, and a fair bit of what I had to say appeared in this story which
Continue readingPample the Moose: A polarized Canada
Several weeks ago, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette called me up for a conversation about a feature she was writing about the increasingly polarized nature of Canadian politics. We talked for about an hour, and a fair bit of what I had to say ap…
Continue readingPample the Moose: A polarized Canada
Several weeks ago, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette called me up for a conversation about a feature she was writing about the increasingly polarized nature of Canadian politics. We talked for about an hour, and a fair bit of what I had to say appeared in this story which
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Why The Abortion Debate Is Polarized
The abortion debate will be polarized no matter what, and if the politicians like Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth don’t ensure that, the media will. On March 14 Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth talked with reporters about his private members’ motion asking for a public discussion on when life begins. Though his
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Superpowers Have Super-partisanship
When you concentrate the world’s politics in one superpower, extreme polarization is inevitable. The vitriolic partisanship that has only reached record levels in the United States has increased because the country’s influence has. George Washington hated political parties, he warned they could destroy the nation. In his farewell address in
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Tough Choice…
Who to despise more – the callow attendees of the Conservative Youth Conference lapping up wisdom “from senior staff from the winning 2011 federal campaign” or the reckless bunch of would-be anarchists affiliated with the so-called Anti-Capitalist Convergence protesting outside the event this past weekend? Sex Pistols… Really? That is
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Canada, we have a problem!
Canada, we have a problem! We have a problem and its name is the Conservative Party of Canada. Sovereignty not the boogeyman it once was. Really, it’s not. If you think it is, then you don’t understand what happened during the last election and why Québec voted the way it
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