I said some things over the Christmas holidays, in trying to dissect the weird Liberal Party, about what was at the root of their misdeeds and scandals and corruption. I said:
I’ve often mused (or shuddered) here before about what liberals say in private, given the sometimes eye-poppingly ignorant and arrogant things we know they say in public. I’ve said before that liberals speak as though everyone in the room agrees with them, and their ability to do this is among the minerals at the root of their arrogance.
I’d really concluded that conservatives were as much to blame as the liberals themselves because we let them get away with it all the time.
Today Lorne Gunter (a really good writer at the National Post) takes a poke at it as well (hat tip Ross M. and Charles Adler):
Major scandals by the Liberals may grab most of the headlines, but their minor arrogances, their small conceits, probably tell Canadians as much or more about the internal mentality of Canada’s governing party. Indeed, the big scandals are probably products of this smaller mindset.
If true, the latest scandal surrounding the Liberals—the question of whether insiders leaked confidential financial information to Bay Street traders in advance of that information being made public—is very likely an offshoot of a thousand smaller smugnesses: We alone are fit to govern. Only we are capable of defending Canadian values. Our opponents (and most Canadians) are nowhere near as clever as we. Not only does this grant us the divine right to rule, it also ensures we are too smart to be caught by mere mortals if—nudge, nudge; wink, wink—we are occasionally guilty of, um, ethical lapses and cronyism.
[…]Like Adscam and Shawinigate, the trust scandal has the potential to dominate news coverage for months. Still, it is the smaller outrages that may be even more indicative of Liberal vanity.
[…] The flashy scandals may grab all the attention, but these small conceits provide a window on the Liberal consciousness.
You could write a book about the arrogance and psychoses of the Liberal Party and liberals in general. Several have actually.
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