Few things frustrate me more than how conservatives in Canada still fail to grasp that it takes each of them, individually as well as part of a team, to make it “happen” in this country. Have liberals so successfully created a dependency and entitlement attitude in this country, that even conservatives now feel as though they’re “owed” a chance to govern? It’s “their turn”, they figure. “Chances are,” they think, “other Canadians will agree and rally”. “It’s only fair”.
It’s that horrible Canadian Idol mentality, in which the contestants, who are self-satisfied and have been constantly and wrongly validated and rewarded for achieving exactly nothing and are then constantly re-validated throughout their lives by liberal parents and teachers and a liberal all-embracing “inclusive” nobody-can-do-wrong community. And in a little snit they say defiantly to the judges who just rejected their hideously bad performance, “Well I liked it and I really want this, and I deserve this and that’s all that matters”, as they walk off utterly missing the entire point of not just the competition, but probably of life itself.
At Christmas parties and around the water cooler at work, liberals will spout off, as they constantly do, as if everyone in the room agrees with them. That’s what liberals do. And conservatives will say nothing.
The media constantly deride conservatives, mock them, ignore them, cast them in a bad light; while they boost liberals and the left generally, advertise their policies in a great light even when they’re horrid policies, toe their line no matter how destructive it is; and conservative Canadians will rarely do a thing about it. I don’t need to prove that to you—proof is all around you.
Go to a blog web site named somethingGrit.com (or Gritsomething.com—whatever) and you’ll find that the blogger made a inane blog entry, and it got 38 comments. Come here and I’ll make a blog entry that took an hour and a half to make, and it gets exactly zero comments. And there are countless other examples I could give you.
Which “movement” do you think will take off in Canada?
As I said yesterday, the point of folks making comments to blog entries here isn’t to “validate” me personally or validate what I’m saying specifically or to massage my ego even though yes, it does have that effect. But no, let’s get real. If I wanted to enrich myself in any way (my ego, my income, my pension plan, calming my nerves, getting more spare time, growing my standing in the community, making and keeping friends…), believe me people, the very last thing I would do would be to start a Canadian conservative web site.
I’m about trying to help stir-up a conservative movement in my country, because I know it’s right —it’s absolutely right, and it’s extremely important to me.
But unless it looks as if there’s a good level of support here, then those who are wondering if there is, will simply think there isn’t And I did use the word “simply” advisedly here, sorry to say.
It does matter how it looks when people come to a place like this. It’s not just conservatives but liberals and potential new columnists and advertisers and politicians and media and just about everybody who comes here every day in the (low) thousands. They need to see that we’re on to something—or it will literally look like we’re not.
Unfortunately people judge these things—blogs in particular—by how many comments and that sort of activity is happening (other things too—but that’s the easiest thing to see for novices). Our discussion forum activity looks pathetic despite the unbelieveably great work by the usual participants there. It looks dead! Like nobody agrees!
You have to imagine the mindset of the liberal-left and their media division who (weekly at least) conduct popularity polls, and then another and then another (with the liberal media blaring the results in huge articles as if it’s an astounding piece of news). It’s not necessarily because they need to test the waters in the most public way possible in order to see how they’re doing—they know how they’re doing because they do internal polls constantly. Often, they’re simply trying to show YOU how well they’re doing. It’s all about showing you that there is a groundswell of support in their favor. People like that. Why do you think so many people vote Liberal in spite of everything that has happened?
I thank everyone who bothered to comment at yesterday’s “blog entry of frustration” —especially those of you who came out of the woodwork for the first time—and even those who instead of dropping a little comment, chose to email me a note (!).
I made a couple of tiny changes as some people suggested, in order to make making comments an easier or more welcome thing to do. I’m certainly open to more suggestions.
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