For over seventy years now, conservatives have been working hard to turn back the clock. And, lately, they have been achieving what they see as victories. The latest evidence comes from Alberta. Justin Giovannetti reports in the Globe and Mail that:
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has promised a “summer of repeal” as his United Conservatives prepare to enter the legislature for the first time as government with an agenda to quickly cut taxes and spark economic growth.
After four years of New Democrat government in Alberta, Mr. Kenney’s UCP plans to take aim at former premier Rachel Notley’s legacy by swiftly tabling a dozen bills that will roll back the province’s climate plan, cut corporate taxes and repeal toughened labour rules. The legislative session, which comes after a Speech from the Throne on Wednesday, could stretch into the dog days of summer after the Calgary Stampede.
In Ontario, Doug Ford has repealed Kathleen Wynne's cap and trade plan and gone to war against the federal carbon tax, while nixing the Liberals' Guaranteed Annual Income experiment in three cities.
In Alabama and Georgia, conservatives are hell bent on repealing Roe vs. Wade, forbidding all abortions. The procedures will now go underground and into the back allies -- as they did seventy years ago.
And Mr. Trump has repealed President Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal, setting the Middle East on a knife's edge. He's still trying to repeal Obama's health care program.
Throughout North America, conservatives are marching, proclaiming their belief in "That Old Time Religion." Certain that God is on their side, they march blindly into the past.
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12 comments:
Clearly, Owen, they are all singing from the same hymn book, and like the fundamentalists they are, cannot countenance complexity or nuance.
.. perhaps perhaps.. but its likely dangerous to think so. Nothing I see (and I see and read a lot) makes me belief there's. a shred of innocence where they are going. I say 'they' - meaning the highly visible core driving or riding the so called 'christian' wave. 'They' appear to be greedy, first and formost + selfish. They are crudely dogmatic, obstructive, secretive, devious, angry.. I cannot believe that the whole kit n kaboodle are not also - just plain ignorant ! Yes, 'dumb' as many would call it. Stupid, fat-headed.. did I mention sleazy & deceitful ? Smarmy meets holier than thou.. Its so obvious
True enough we see it in Canada eh .. We have the faux christians packing the CPC riding associations to ensure 'their' candidates are selected - thus WE in Canada get smoked by their bitter ideology when some of those candidates are elected. Of course they support ignoring climate change, expanding GHG's, stripping the earth, despoiling the land air and waters.. and hey ! How about allowing tailings ponds to be 'vented' into major waterways.. holy hell !
Thats what I see when I look at Kenney, Scheer, Ford et al.. the new kristyun political parasites. Like Sam Oosterhoff, Peter Kent, Tony Clement, Look south to bible country - what do you see ? I see phony political zeolats riding to wealth on a disturbed froth.. a froth that Trump rides, the same froth that rascism thrives on and white supremacy. I see cowards & creeps - like Sean Hannity, or Stephen Miller, Paul Ryan. We need to get these faux evangelicals out of politics.. and they're so obvious, so strident, confrontational, bullying too .. Politics was never meant to be riddled with religion and money.. that's bad medicine
These are people who don't like change. They can barely tolerate the present. They fantasize about a dream-world in the past (that never existed in reality) and which they imagine was fueled by "free markets" and "free men." (White men free to spew racism, misogyny, and free to pollute and [for the extremists] enslave.)
Not being grounded in reality, their policies generally fail. For that they blame feminists, Muslims, or whatever other group is pissing them off at the moment.
Simple answers and certitude, Lorne. It's a dangerous combination.
Religion and money is also a dangerous combination, sal. In Christ's day, they were called "Pharisees."
Is it not a bit strange that these "religious" people care about the first heart beat of a fetus, yet in less than a heart beat, they will send their children off to be slaughtered in useless wars? They learned nothing from Vietnam and worse yet Iraq! salamander summed it up, pure craziness.
When Belief becomes unmoored from Reason, Mac, you get Insanity.
They need scapegoats, thwap. And they always find them. But they don't possess the ability to engaage in strong and thorough self analysis.
I try very hard to not be blindly partisan and give those I disagree with the benefit of the doubt whenever possible but that is getting increasing hard with the Ford Regime, all I can say is I agree with Sal .... Nothing I see makes me belief there's. a shred of innocence where they are going. I say 'they' - meaning the highly visible core driving or riding the so called 'christian' wave. 'They' appear to be greedy, first and formost + selfish. They are crudely dogmatic, obstructive, secretive, devious, angry.. " Exactly...
From where I sit, Rural, they appear to be completely devoid of compassion. They are driven by our darker angels.
nice to see thwap.. we agree on little yet agree on most.. he's a fine 'from the gut' Canadian.. always read, always appreciated
It's good to have him commenting again, sal.
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