Monday, March 17, 2008

Banishing the Elitist Snakes, Stabbing the Back of Power and the New Politics

Trying hard to wrap up a St. Patrick's Day and the Ides of March edition here, I see no better opportunity at the present then for us to note, that in Canada and Ontario, there is a new politics being created. A brand new idea that it can expand past the right and the left, into that of what is right not wrong, one that includes without full exclusion, can be principled without absolute pragmatism, this new politics of the grassroots encourages realignment, which promotes multi party views, through choice, change and chance at a better tomorrow. Quite unlike the old politics of the elites that continues to encourages polarization at its pleasure, with a taxpayers ransom in the form of a electoral kickback of $1.75 per vote gained, which forces two if not one party view, through intimidation, division and fear of what a better tomorrow may be, differing from their same old status quo known one, which has kept them in power, on top and in control of the lives of those who cannot.

Without simplifying it, old politics of the elites can be found especially in the power houses of the Liberal Party of Canada federally and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario provincially, that we see, at the current, both out of power right now is meaningless, as their replacements and others in the power blocks, that be the House and Legislatures of provincial and federal parliament, still basically toe out the same line, therefore keeping the same agenda. Recently, however, the Liberal Party of Canada federally turned on a grassroots ethnic collective to its own probable folly, one that it traditionally used for its own enjoyment, leisure and benefit, likewise the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario provincially forsook a grassroots labour collective to its possible death, all in the same manner. Both actions will have dire consequences, moreso on the federal and provincial political parties than either of those grassroots organizational collectives, however what is key is that both of those collectives now have more power in a political than either of those parties, as they now singlehandedly used that power to make sure a representative of the party they had previously supported, now opposed, wasn't elected to represent them, as a very wise member of the Ontario Landowners Association stated quite plainly "If these representatives don't know why they get the amount of our taxes in their pockets, through actions of lacking representation, then why should they represent us."

Banishing the elitist snakes can only start by stabbing the back of power they hold, to weaken its political authority, if morally it already is lacking, these federal and provincial political parties, both those powerhouses or in the power block itself, have built themselves upon the foundation of old elitist politics, they can not produce any good results because they have consumed bad policies, therefore anyone waiting for their wholesale turnaround is only fooling themselves. These organizational collectives, who see no productive qualities to the lacking representation they receive in return, are very smart indeed to banish, stab and leave those wrongful abusing powers behind like a battered wife from a brutal husband, as this is the very essense of grassroots democratic power, the new politics, which allows this thundering electoral herd to move from different multi party views, until the one that is right has been found. Leaving the old political elite's spectrum view of right versus left dichotomy, which produces that unproductive polarization, to enter a right versus wrong one, to where an electorate must consume the idea of realignment, is the last step towards bringing the new political grassroots from off the ballots and into the parliament for the betterment of society in general.