Using tax-law, budget cuts, and
funding threats , Harper has tried to muzzle artists, scientists,
environmentalists, opposition groups, and cripple Canadian NGOs that don’t walk
in lock-step with his narrow ideology. He is destroying Canada’s ability to
contribute to the world as a positive force. Judge the tree by its fruit. He
has done nothing positive. Unlike our traditional Tory right, he is an
extremist bent on imposing his narrow view on us all. His neoliberal,
neoconservative policies will increase the inequality, and thus the
misery, in our country to the benefit of a few corporations. The so called
"Free Trade" agreements he and his ilk have forced upon us do nothing
for the common people but drive down living standards and erode rights, while
removing regulatory safeguards and privatizing as many essential services as
they can get away with. That way, corporations can hold us hostage for profit
and degrade the service quality and equity. The market is Harper's true god and
he believes it to be all powerful, all-knowing and rewarding to those who
deserve it.
Unfortunately for democracy, you have to have money to be part of the
market and the more money you have the more of the market you control. The
market has no ethics, just supply and demand and the manipulation of the two.
The market monetizes everything, considering humans a cost rather than an
asset, thus it encourages reduction of that cost to increase profit. As long as
a few have most of the money, the market only cares about them. The rest of us
can’t participate. This is what our governments have become, corporations,
extensions of the market that are replacing democracy and imperilling us all.
We have to get the market out of government and start governing the market. The
unregulated market generates chaos and misery as the strong exploit the weak.
Democracy bears good fruit, like peace and stability and dignity.
Harper's fruit is hard to stomach and is making the whole nation ill.
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