I’ve been accused of partisanship. It’s an odd accusation from my perspective. So let me try to dispell a bit of it here.
IdiocracyWatch is largely about relentlessly holding politicians to two standards: honesty, and transparency. I consider these two standards to be embedded somewhere in the cornerstone of good democratic discourse. Unfortunately we have a government that disagrees with the maintenance of these standards. They (the Current crop of Conservatives in government) consider party politics and power the appropriate standards with which to shape the democratic discourse in Canada.
We recently caught a glimpse of an attitude that many Liberals thought had been sufficiently purged from the party. They were wrong. Here is a good explanation of the event and an example of the discourse it prompted. It is a case of honest and open discussion of a Liberal decision that, on the face of it, smells like Conservative spirit.
Compare the tone of that article with the mindless regurgitation of party lines contained in this popular Canadian Conservative blog.
The two couldn’t be more dissimilar in tone. We (Conservatives, Liberals, etc.) need more Stratosphear and less Stephen Taylor in our political discourse. We most certainly need less Stephen Harper. Whether or not we need an Iggy, well that remains to be seen. The mistake would be giving the Iggys and Harpers in the world a free ride on the basis of party politics alone. We need to demand more of our politicians. We need good ideas, good explanations, good transparency, good accountability and honesty–things that have been conspicuously absent in the dominant political discourse of late.
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