A Four-Part Series
Part One of Four
Politics in the province of British Columbia and much of Canada is so easy to understand. Let me explain it:
The electorate—including many elected and hope-to-be-elected politicians—is largely unsophisticated politically, bereft of even a rather basic understanding of general political philosophy, and of the specific philosophies of political parties.
For example, many don’t know that the NDP is a socialist party, and then many don’t have a clue what “socialism” means. And those who do think it’s a positive thing, Canada’s world-wide joke of a health care system—among the most expensive and least efficient in the world—and the huge state-run media behemoth the CBC which nobody watches, among other nudges, all notwithstanding.
Similarly, many have been (easily) mislead by both the media and academia to a misunderstanding (or even an unmitigated lie) about what politically “conservative” means, and many honestly think of “Conservatives” as a very bad thing.
And furthermore, nearly nobody understands the political back-room in this province, and most are clueless as to the degree to which the NDP is owned and operated by socialist or Marxist labor unions, and how the NDP’s financial backbone is labor unions and the individual union members. Nor do they appreciate how leader Carole James is in bed with big labor unions who by the way also got her elected as leader of the NDP.
The BC public is blissfully unaware that through both the NDP and the labor union’s use of a deceptive slight-of-hand, support is funneled through individual union members to the NDP coffers so as to make it look as though it’s not really “big unions” who are supporting them but rather “individuals”. That way they can claim that they are supported by “grass-roots individuals”—“common folk”; and the other side is being supported by “big business”, who obviously couldn’t use that same technique even if they were as dishonest and deceptive as the labor unions and the NDP, which they aren’t.
People are also unaware that the labor unions are guaranteed 25 percent of the vote at policy and leadership conventions, and even NDP members themselves are embarrassed and/or very secretive about this dirty little NDP secret, which is outlined in their own party constitution, but mercifully for them, it refers to these big labor unions as “affiliates” to take the edge off it.
Yet almost nobody sees a conflict-of-interest between the NDP and labor unions.
BC is a population taught mostly by socialist teachers who belong to a militant socialist union bent on promoting socialism, or even Marxism. For BC’s May 2005 provincial elections, they already have a $5 MILLION war chest ready to spend on advertising to defeat the BC Liberals and get the NDP elected. I suspect the NDP has less than that to get themselves elected. It’s an interesting use of money which was ultimately derived from the taxpayer to start with, but nobody questions it.
Meanwhile, the taxpayer-paid teachers are instructed by their union to spread bad-talk about the BC Liberals, and to even put up posters at all public schools, which by their very definition are owned by all of the public, saying disparaging things about and denigrating the BC Liberals. They are also told to bring up the nasty BC Liberals during parent-teacher conferences.
During their actual “teaching” time they teach that socialism is the norm, and is the basis upon which all parties are compared. It is nuanced as the “center to center-left” of the political spectrum in BC and Canada. That way, BC kids grow up to be good little socialists, and join “Stop Harper” protests in front of the Art Gallery, while knowing not a whit about art, Stephen Harper, conservatism, nor how to write three paragraphs using their/there/they’re properly even once unless by pure chance.
The liberal-left media, which dominates BC and all of Canada, is the other educator of record in BC. People in BC think that the CBC is fair and balanced, and that CTV and Global are “right-wing” simply because they’re not state-owned. That’s how left-wing and uninformed the population is. If it ain’t owned by the state, then it’s “right-wing”. The media went along with Carole James and the NDP as well as the labor unions who all lamented and decried the “privatization” of BC Ferries recently. That’s what they call the government keeping 100 percent ownership but simply separating its operation from direct cabinet direction and soviet-style central planning. That’s what “privatization” is to the liberal-left including the media. The Vancouver Sun—and this was in a news article, not an editorial—referred to Fox News Channel (the one that’s banned in Canada by the liberal state-run CRTC) as “the ultra-right-wing champion of George W. Bush, big tax cuts and the war in Iraq”.
There is, according to the media, no “left-wing” in BC, merely “left-of-center”. The socialist NDP is hilariously described as “left-of-center” or “center-left”, as is the civic political party COPE, which was founded by local communists (no, I’m not using hyperbole: communists). There is at least one member of the COPE School Board in Vancouver who is an active supporter of the Communist Party of Canada, and likely others who, not surprisingly, don’t make it widely known. I would personally describe COPE more accurately as “neo-communist” and the NDP as Fabian Socialists. In fact I would describe many liberals in Canada, big and small L, as Fabian Socialists.
But the population doesn’t see it, so bathed are they in liberalism. Ask a fish “How’s the water?”, and the fish replies “What water?”
The best-known, most visible, and most-read political columnist is the Vancouver Sun’s Vaughn Palmer. He describes the BC Liberals as “right-wing”, betraying just how left-wing he obviously is. The BC Liberals he describes this way are the same BC Liberals who are named “BC Liberals”—again: “Liberals”—and is the party that after being elected in a huge majority chose to endorse and maintain the state-run liquor stores; also to maintain the peddling of mandatory, monopoly state-owned car insurance schemes (with optional towing package!); and many other state-run enterprises which compete against its own citizens for business and remove private business and investment incentive and opportunities; it’s also the party which continues to pay for state-funded abortions at any time in a pregnancy—on demand, without question, at any hospital, and if the “patient” wants one done at 8 months in, they’ll pay for it to be done in Washington State because doctors mercifully won’t do optional late-term abortions in BC; and it’s the party which allows the unelected BC Supreme Court to dictate that gay marriages are perfectly fine without question in BC.
That’s what Palmer calls “right-wing”.
Imagine what a free-market social conservative would be called in BC. Well, we don’t need to imagine. Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell, the bloated ignoramus COPE neo-communist, called Conservatives “barbarians” during the last federal election. Vancouver Sun columnist (and former CBC reporter) Barbara Yaffe called them “scary”. Another columnist, The Province’s James McNulty, ended his election eve anti-conservative rant and voting advisory with the requisite pack of lies that all of the liberal-left media unconsciously agreed to promote: “They want symbiosis with the U.S., more police, more prisoners, no gun registry—and Harper would have taken us to war in Iraq… Is Canada really cranky enough to embrace the Republican agenda of George W. Bush? YIKES!”
Sounds like the 14-year-old’s prattle that I deleted off the ProudToBeCanadian.ca boards some time ago because it was too immature and baseless. But that’s what the media teaches us dumb lugnuts who live in BC.
So let’s review: Conservatives are “barbarians”, “scary”, and “yikes!”; the Liberals are “right-wing”; and COPE (and the NDP which own and run them) are “center-left”. Presumably, the political moniker “left-wing” is reserved for something as yet undiscovered—something too delicious for the teachers and the media to even imagine.
More in Part Two of this series
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