Campbell's Liberals have brought democracy to heel
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Updated: October 22, 2009 11:29 AM
Editor, The Record:
Adding to the anger directed at the Gordon Campbell Liberals after the last election was the feeling that they weren’t listening to the people.
Actually they weren’t and if you read the new book, Not a Conspiracy Theory by Donald Gutstein, you’ll know exactly why they don’t listen, as their allegiance is not to us.
What you and I might want has become more and more irrelevant as it’s not what the business and political elites want.
They only listen to the conservative think-tanks like the Fraser Institute who are a part of a long-term and well funded campaign of terror against our traditional democracy.
We all must wake up to the reality that the corporations have decided it’s the free market and not democracy which leads to freedom. The corporations have decided, in the words of Nelson Rockerfeller, there’s an excess of democracy in society. Can anyone really argue that Mr. Campbell hasn’t done a fine job of bringing democracy to heel?
The list of the backers of the think-tanks reads like a Fortune 500 list, full of wealthy conservative, often religious, right wing elitists who are united in the belief that they alone should shape our world: and what a mess they’ve made of the planet in the process.
Just look at the issue of global warming and how the media giants – owned by the anti-democratic elites – have parroted the falsehoods of the anti-Kyoto groups.
How false claims of ‘junk science’ and ‘scare literature’ have been effectively used to frustrate action on climate change.
When deny, delay, and divide public opinion doesn’t work, they move the factories overseas.
So what if the middle-class is destroyed, we can always feel good about those box stores that tout “environmental greenwash” while selling you overseas junk. Look behind the corporate propaganda agenda and see how we’ve been taken for fools.
Also realize that the corporations and think-tanks have taken a long view of changing society and see it for what it is: a complete hijacking of society.
In this Steven Harper is a poster boy for the ultra-right. His personality isn’t one that Canadians trust so he’s now playing the piano and singing just to show he’s one of us when he most assuredly is not. He’s simply being re-imaged in a purely propaganda way to sell him to an increasing distrustful population.
Is this what Canadians want, to become Republicans?
And this is from a person who has never voted NDP in his life.
Robert T. Rock
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