tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441291629468823379.post767023919501223224..comments2023-10-22T07:20:59.255-06:00Comments on If Necessary Blogging But Not Necessarily Blogging: Harper’s Message Event Proposals reveal ‘hyper-extreme’ political controlConstant Vigilancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03839753866104400007noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441291629468823379.post-9760342165523443582010-06-06T17:57:11.242-06:002010-06-06T17:57:11.242-06:00You hit the nail on the head there! That is exactl...You hit the nail on the head there! That is exactly why Steve owns the center now and a center that is shifting to the right. It is indeed because of the message.<br /><br />A very powerful thing media.<br /><br />One recent example were the 9/12 tea-bagger hit parade; the Glenn Beck extravaganza. I saw various videos of journalists and reporters asking various tea-baggers questions. Many of them said in such panic stricken tones, that "they're being taxed like crazy!" "or they're taxes went up", when in reality, at that time when this shindig was being held, Obama didn't raise taxes, in fact, some even had their taxes lowered. <br /><br />Remember the media used to say that Steve's evangelical buddies were scary and the voters agreed with that. Then, most news outlets endorsed the Harper campaign in 2006 and again in 2008. They convinced the public he wasn't that scary that he would be just like a small c conservative; like the old progressive conservatives and nothing more. <br /><br />All the while, Steve practices slow frog cooking politics. Little by little, he implements more and more GW Bush policies and bills that he's always dreamed of.<br /><br />Now, Marci McDonald comes out with her book at the same time Steve cuts funding to all those women's groups and we see favourites like Lorrie Goldstein telling Canadians that social conservatism is good and social justice is very very bad. Again, since Jane and Joe who hang out at Timmy's refuse to think for themselves and are content to swallow that Harpercon kool-aid, they embrace it.<br /><br />Of course, it becomes easier when media releases statsCan figures saying that in 2031, white people will be the minority. That makes a lot of folks antsy and would want to stop the trend. How do they do that? Well, criminalize abortions that's how. <br /><br />At that last pro-life rally, that guy said that "we need each everyone of those babies if our society is to survive".<br /><br />It's why I'm slowly giving up and have started slowly looking into possibilities for my husband and myself to move overseas.<br /><br />Honestly, an election is coming this fall and the only that can save us from a Harpercon majority is not a coalition but a brand new Liberal leader (not Bob Rae).ckhttp://sistersagesmusings.canoreply@blogger.com