A Rather Frightening And Silly, Unrealistic Comment, Questions & Realities

A few days ago, a commenter dropped by my place with some worry that I found to be rather trivial. A progressive, but one in the highly “I hate Iggy and the Liberals brigade”. No, he’s not a blogger, at least, I’ve never caught Hopeful Joe around Prog Bloggers. This particular commenter to me sounded so off reality that I could almost compare him to a kissing cousin of the Blogging SupposiTories. The left wing of the Blogging SupposiTories if you will.  Yes, I’m very well aware of  what an oxy moron that sounds like.

Let’s start with a particular quote that left chills down my spine, but would warm the hearts (if they had any) of the blogging SupposiTories.

I truly believe that the Canadian electorate needs the wake-up call of a Harper majority to remind them to pay attention, participate and vote. It’s going to be a painful four year and it will likely take us 10 years to rebuild all that Harper destroys. Disaster wakes people from their slumber and from it, real leaders are born.

I don’t have to construct a list of what’s really wrong with the above paragraph, do I? However, this is the first who is supposedly “progressive” who actually seems to embrace the idea of a Harpercon majority for reasons that seem to border on typical Harpercon sadism to me. Hell, it begs the question  if he would even vote for Stevie  in the next election

My question is, how many progressives actually share his views and actually embrace a Harpercon regime?

When I read and hear the lament of how the opposition, namely the Liberals as they had swallowed most of  Stevie spiteful’s packed poison pills (even though, if they hadn’t, I would be curious to know how often the NDP would have jumped in.  NDP have the luxury of hammering the Liberals as we’ll never have the answer to that question),  never voted down the Harpercons, I have to ask, is the decimation of the opposition and a Harpercon regime really worth it?

I understand the frustration of this opposition seeing no option but to go along with the Harpercons, even though I understood why it had to be done.  With the media in lockstep with Stevie Spiteful for the most part, shoving the majority center to the right and the dismal polling numbers for both the LIberals and the NDP, what choice was there? With Liberals polling at only the mid-twenties up until now and the NDP never really deviating from between 15% – 20%; the Greens and the Bloc always hovering around 10% and less, the Harpercons were well primed for a majority.  Discount the polling numbers as having come from con shills all you like, but those  numbers are all those parties have to work with and it is those numbers pundits and columnists are spinning to the Timmy Hortons crowd. Why would anyone risk a Harpercon majority? To say that would never have happened was and is to be in denial.

This brings me back to my question for the many progressives who are determined to hate Iggy and the Liberals to the bitter end, or who hold pie-in-the-sky-pipe dreams for what will never be, is it worth a Harpercon majority for more hideous bills and legislations and policies just to see the Liberals vote against them?  Do you agree with Hopeful Joe’s comment above?

Already, things are starting to get ugly. The Liberals have come off this bus tour more confidant and expressing an aspiration to be more oppositional and already the pundits are chastising them, Harpercon cheerleaders, as are the Bloggging SupposiTories are accusing them of being too arrogant (apparently, like Mary T, they don’t like any opposition parties, getting, well oppositional)  and the progressive “I hate Iggy brigade” have turned up the heat full throttle.  

This leads me to my next question, if Jack Layton decided to whip his caucus to vote against Mullet-head Hoeppner, and cooperated with the Liberals toward the common goal of keeping Canadians safe,  would NDP supporters have as much animosity toward the Liberals as to keep a closed mind where they’re concerned?

I would be curious what the answers to these question would be.

It would be really nice folks, if we can all get Stevie spiteful out of office before he ruins us beyond repair. You think he’s bad with a minority.  You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!