I don’t quote myself very much but I was searching for something and stumbled upon one of my own columns and thought I’d share part of it with you.
I want you to think of this every time you hear, see, or talk to an NDPer.
[…] I keep comparing the NDP socialists with socialism in the former Soviet Union, and people keep emailing me and calling me an “extreme right wing nut”. I wonder if they have the slightest clue what “conservatives” stand for if they don’t even know what they themselves stand for.
“Russia and the U.S.S.R. was Communist!”, the brilliant ones angrily tell me in emails, as if apparently uneducated people (“who built this country”) feel they need to educate me (who, as I understand it, not being a “working person”, “don’t do nuthin’”, or if I do, it’s “on the backs of” the likes of them. People like me just can’t win!). They have no clue that the letters “U.S.S.R.” stand for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but they’re sure they know what they stand for which is whatever their union or their mommy the NDP says they stand for; and whatever that is, it involves lots of words like: “working people”, “unions”, “struggles”, “rights”, “victim” (as in “you, me and every darn one of us are victims of sumthin’, damn it”), “strike”, “protest rally”, and so on; but never includes the likes of: “self-sufficient”, “initiative”, “profit”, “innovation”, “smaller government”, “lower taxes”, “private”, “efficient”, or “personal responsibility”.
The NDP are so cute. They love to sound like they stand for you.
Here are some official policy quotes I found off the web:
- “We remain in the forefront of the people’s struggles : for labour rights, social justice and the environment; defending the rights of minorities, women, gays and lesbians; fighting for youth and students.”
- “The struggle of the Canadian people for democracy, sovereignty, peace and social advance is essentially a political struggle against big business and its control of the Canadian State. The interests of the vast majority of Canadians are in conflict with the anti-democratic, neoliberal policies of the transnationals and the banks.”
- “…offering a clear and consistent vision of a socialist Canada, where the priority is people’s needs, not corporate greed”
Actually I should have mentioned that I got those quotes from the official policies platform of the Communists Party on the Communist Party of Canada website, not the NDP’s web site. Oops.
Lest you think I’m being one-sided about the socialists, here’s a last quote from Mein Kampf, as written by the ever-so-Hussein-like Adolf Hitler, since “Hitler” or “Nazi” is what many lefties (liberals and NDP) love to call conservatives, moments after they realize that we’re making sense.
“Hence the movement must adopt a positive attitude towards the trade-unionist idea. But it must go further than this. For the enormous number of members and followers of the trade-unionist movement it must provide a practical education which will meet the exigencies of the coming National Socialist State.”
And yet I’m a nefarious “extreme right winger”—I’m the danger. Oh yeah, and of course “Saddam Hussein was not a threat”.
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