While right-of-centre North Americans have legitimate reasons to be concerned with the policies of Trudeau and Obama, one must remember that there are different degrees of Leftism, ranging from centre-left to far-left to … something verging on insanity. The latter seems to be in play amongst Britain’s Labour Party these days.
Janet Daley reports on the recent hiring of Seumas Milne, a militantly left rich boy with apparent daddy issues:
Mr Milne’s views are way, way beyond what is regarded as Left-wing in the North London circles where endless hours are spent talking half-baked anti-capitalist rubbish. He is a supporter of terrorist organisations, an undaunted apologist for the defunct Soviet system and a declared enemy of governments that support free markets.
Unlike the unwavering sycophants of the Left in Canada, some Labour supporting intellectuals are beginning to speak out against the very dangerous course Corbyn is taking his party and trying to take his country:
Kate Godfrey: “I wrote something. Not an article, so much as a raggedly little statement of feeling that just happened to be shared by thousands. A statement of disappointment and of anger that Jeremy Corbyn has appointed as his key adviser a one-time Stalinist called Seumas Milne. And I stand by it. I hold no brief for Milne. It kills me that Labour does. I think Milne is an apologist for terror, and will always be an apologist for terror. I think that he never met a truth he didn’t dismiss as an orthodoxy and that nowhere in his far-Left polemic are actual people represented.”
Martin Amis: “In general his intellectual CV gives an impression of slow-minded rigidity; and he seems essentially incurious about anything beyond his immediate sphere.”
Still, British Tories should not rest on their laurels. We are living in a very strange time in history where facts and proven performance don’t seem to matter to more than 50% of the population. For them it’s all about good feelings, combined with whatever bobbles a politician can dangle in front of them. Do you honestly think this diatribe wouldn’t appeal to vast swath of Liberal, NDP, and Democrat voters?!?
Perhaps one day research scientists will do a study on who is brighter, the average housecat or a low-information voter. My money’s on the feline.
I have a long time friend who spouts the same crap, the US is evil, capitalism is evil (of course, while enjoying all its benefits), corporations are all evil and nothing he sees or is told changes his mantra.
Anti-Capitalist spew from a 1%er – could the hypocrisy get any thicker. It takes a true zombie to drink from that cup – but no doubt there are a percentage of masochistic fools who will.
Another prime example as to why we have to rethink who is allowed to vote and who is allowed to run for public office.
Wait until the day Castro dies, and our boy Justin offers up a glowing eulogy to this “great friend of the family” and “great friend of Canada”, without mentioning the thousands that Castro killed for the crime of being a dissident. Then, e-mail every journalist who wrote about Trudeau better reflecting “Canadian values” than did Harper, and ask them just what values are on display now.
Is suspect some cannibalism is going to be happening in the NDP soon. I’m sure the Marxist branch of the party thinks that a switch to the middle by Mulcair led to the meltdown.
watched a documentary somewhat recently; seems when you contradict a person’s belief system with provable factual information, the logical portion of their brain shuts down and the emotional portion spikes in activity.
Im going to have to revisit this phenomenon. it explains a great deal of the bizarre conversations Ive had with leftist ever since my days in university.
yup, and it also applies to the religious zealots. Humans are “believers”, it’s not who believes, it’s what who believes, behavioural psychology 101
This reminds me of the Labour Party during Margaret Thatcher’s first term. Only worse, which I didn’t think was possible.
For the Corbynites in the Labour Party, it’s all about “Back to the Future” and the date their time machine* is permanently set to is 3 MAY 1979.
Yep, that’s the day before Margaret Thatcher became PM.
* Though not based on a DeLorean chassis; more like something awful from British Leyland, a late-model Triumph Dolomite perhaps.
“I suspect some cannibalism is going to be happening in the NDP soon. I’m sure the Marxist branch of the party thinks that a switch to the middle by Mulcair led to the meltdown.”
That sort of odd leftie logic-skewing is amusing, isn’t it? I’m convinced going even harder left could only have led to complete marginalization, leaving the NDP even worse off.
I think Mulcair and his strategists were probably sound in their tactics: they knew that, as a result of their Laytonian sweep in 2011, they now had to somehow try to carve out a bigger home for themselves closer to the centre of the political spectrum.
And hey, it might even have worked – had the Liberals been fronted by any other leader (say, a Dionne or an Ignatieff). But since it all came down to the cult of personality in the end, Mulcair and the NDP didn’t have a hope.
As I’ve stated before, yes, the Tories certainly lost hands down, but they weren’t the ones crushed here (they still hold 99 seats, not the two the PCs were left with in 1993). The popular vote makes it clear the NDP was the big loser.
I can confirm this observation. When I talk politics to my two lieberal daughters they refuse to believe the facts and present and instead get really emotional and loud. Maybe that is why they unfriended me on facebook?
Felines, of course. Canines too. Name any bird or animal: crows, ravens, bears, skunks, walruses. None of them commit suicide en masse, which is what the liv’s are doing. Unfortunately they are taking the rest of us down with them. Now may a good time for conservatives to show up to riot.
If I may. I suspect that their “back to the future” ideology goes back even further to October 1917.
Jack Layton’s “legacy” in Toronto can be perfectly summed up with this ideology. He has none. Nothing. As a local politician for many years he accomplished exactly nothing.
What he would do is ride around on his bike looking for a TV camera so he could spout off about why this or that should not be done. And the usual schtick about workers and families of course. It all sounded like music to the ‘educated’ ears of liberal idiots, but he didn’t mean any of it. All that bike riding entitled him to massages from underage illegal immigrant girls though, that’s what was important to him, disgusting pig that he was.
This is a great subject. For decades I have maintained that the American
left is a collection of radical elements with disparate and often competing
aims. An example of this would be labor unions and the tree-huggers.
I always believed if one or two of these groups bailed on the Democrat party,
they might be finished as a national party. Now, I am beginning to think
that even if they emerged as a one party governing body, they would in
almost a heartbeat be reduced to bickering factions that would make
the Balkans look stable.
If one could eliminate every Jew on the planet, the Muslim sects and tribes
would start going at each others throats. In the end, the liberal left
would indeed eat their own until only one pressure group remained. If it is
the gays, everything would be “fabulous.” If it is the tree-huggers, they
will all “communne with nature” until they become bear crap!