A report from yesterday’s Wildrose Alliance convention in Alberta.
Including photos!
“I think he’s been listening to the CBC a bit too much.”
A report from yesterday’s Wildrose Alliance convention in Alberta.
Including photos!
“I think he’s been listening to the CBC a bit too much.”
knight 88, I’m pretty sure he meant to spell HATE with the Christian cross …
shel, push those buttons, push those buttons… good on you.
OK, I’m confused.
What’s his beef with the state of Washington?
Is it because Microsoft is out there?
“Libertarian – the term Danielle has used to describe her political philosophy – is also the one that Stephen Harper uses for himself”
Gordon, Be careful with the labels. Danielle wears the “libertarian” label and Harper doesn’t, but they are both big tent Conservatives opposed to the agenda of the corporatist Left that seizes the means to choose AND then piles on with it’s own thought police.
Whenever a pure theocon or a pure libertarian takes a shot at Harper they pretty much validate that the right is much bigger than its extremes, but that balance is more easily lived provincially without worrying about the extremes. Just ask Danielle Smith and Link Byfield.
harper (civitas 2003):
A “economic conservatism” does indeed come from classical liberalism. Its primary value is individual freedom, and to that end it stresses private enterprise, free trade, religious toleration, limited government and the rule of law.
The other philosophy is Burkean conservatism. Its primary value is social order. It stresses respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal self-restraint reinforced by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.
…In the 20th century, these opposing forces came together as a result of two different forces: resistance to a common enemy, and commitment to ideas widely shared.
…The truth is that strong economic and social conservatives are more often than not the same people, and not without reason. Except at the extremes of libertarianism and theocracy, the philosophical fusion has become deep and widespread.
…The real enemy is no longer socialism… but the social agenda of the modern Left. Its system of moral relativism, moral neutrality and moral equivalency is beginning to dominate its intellectual debate and public-policy objectives.