" ... What is the issue in this election? Why, the same as in all elections, my libertarian self exclaims. In the last 45 years, the only question has been whether the government implementing the NDP's policies will be Liberal or Conservative. ...
The NDP may do abysmally in federal elections, but the NDP's ideas flourish. ...
Canada is governed from the middle, yes, but the middle is on the left. The politicians who form our next government will be statist -- socialists in all but name -- because there are no other kinds running. Our statists may vary in degree, but not in kind. Since the 1960s, classical liberals or conservatives either haven't entered the arena or changed their policies afterwards. They wouldn't have had a chance otherwise.Here's the irony, though: If socialists called themselves socialists, they wouldn't stand a chance either. Canadians are funny that way. They'll buy nothing but socialist policies and practices, but never from socialists. Calling things what they are isn't politically polite in Canada.
In the tradition of Orwell's Newspeak, in Canadian English the word "free" denotes a prohibition, as in "smoke-free environment." Canadians call laws and institutions that deny people fundamental freedoms of conscience, expression, and association "human rights" laws and commissions. In this eccentric world, going to the polls is like skeet-shooting in a stiff breeze: A vote for Stephen is a vote for Michael. ..."
http://www.georgejonas.ca/recent_writing.cfm?id=967
Hmmm, an empire pretending to be a federation, a quasi-pseudo-semi-elected dictatorship pretending its not ... yes, George, the Empire of the Canadians is quite the "eccentric world", where little or nothing is as advertized.
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Jonas is the absolute best in my books. Did you read his latest on ex-patriot Hungarians? I had no idea just how many of them made the big time, excellent article.
I haven't seen that one yet, Larry but thanks for the tip, I'll make a point of getting my hands on it.
Coincidentally, I've just finished Bill Buckley's "Fall of the Berlin Wall" (better titled rise and fall imho, but anyway) and was reminded of the Hungarian exodus.
I still get the National Review, but it is not quite the same without its founder; It doesn't have the humour it once had, I really miss the guy. Apparently you can get disks with his T.V. program, Firing Line, but they aren't cheap, and they are becoming pretty dated. Still, so am I.
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