Lee Dale

Conservative politics in North America has a clear mantra: power before people.

Matt offers some salient points about our current crop of conservatives now further entrenched in parliament, the most important being the greatest myth conservative governments of North America have sold to the people: that they’re fiscally responsible.

For all my years this has been easy to see as a false assertion. From Reagan on up in the US and Mulroney through Harper in our homeland, conservative spending has been disastrous for the United States and Canada. It’s unfortunate that a generation of behaviour can be ignored by the voting public. To be ~~generous~~ fair, I suppose it’s hard to shake a brand that’s been fed to you since you were born.

The definition of conservative is not tight with money, it’s fight the people. They do this with tax breaks for the rich, military spending, increased policing and incarceration, all while diminishing social support and safety nets. This inevitably leads to a paranoid and damaged society where the middle class gets poorer, the poor fight against their own interests, and the extreme minority rich own everything (see our neighbours to the south for a reference point of where we could end up).

Let’s not forget this a week from now when our frustration dies down. This conversation needs to continue over the next 4 years so everyone, country wide, can be focused on electing a candidate that actually meets their needs.

Source: blog.emenel.ca