The same old Sask NDP
What lies behind their friendly new fear ‘n smear?*
Related: If you aren’t properly alarmed by the big bad Wall, the Regina Leader Post slaps a hood on him. Following a time-honoured election tradition, we are offered not one, but two articles by Veronica Rhodes on the past and “present” Ku Klux Klan in Saskatchewan. complete with obligatory references to “conservatives”.
Which is, of course, the purpose for which they were written.
I particularly liked the “They’re inexperienced and reckless” cheap shot. Every tired old incumbent party in history seems to use a variant of this argument. If you follow the argument to its logical conclusion, no new party should ever be voted in. It’s as if the incumbent party believes that the challenger should demonstrate that they have a few years’ worth of governing experience (perhaps in a parallel universe or using that giant SimSaskatchewan game you can buy at Future Shop) before they’re to be taken seriously as a political option.
What, democracy? No thanks, we’re from Saskatchewan.
Someone once said to Winston Churchill, “you sir are a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” To which Winston replied “and you sir are a sheep in sheep’s clothing”
That may sound off topic. However why doesn’t the Saskparty turn it around. Throw it back in their faces, show them to be the fools they are.
Oh I forgot there are no politicians anymore. Just a bunch of guys running around spouting rhetoric or saying that it is “just not fair”
Are the voters of Saskatchewan so stupid that ads like this are effective? They are, in the eyes of the Provincial Government.
When any Party makes an appeal to our base emotions, in this case, fear, voters should be very suspicious of their platform, or, more likely, their lack of a platform.
The MSM loves to tell us how we have the chance to elect the “best and brightest” to political office, I see no evidence of that here.
I hope the people of Saskatchewan will react to the contempt in which they are obviously held, by this government.
HMM. Yup same old stuff, fear, greed, envy.
Relax folks, the centre four, Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, and Prince Albert will eat this stuff up. When 50 percent of the population is beholding to the government for their cheque, it is not likely to change. Has not for 50 years, don’t expect it to now.
The rural population of Saskatchewan has never supported these guys, witness the lack of support, higher taxes, poor services, and other acts of overt punishment and discrimination over the many years of NDP rule.
These guys, the NDP, know it is not about good governance, it is about power and keeping it. The returnees that have managed to slow the out migration from Saskatchewan are generally of a political mindset that felt hard done by by Alberta’s free market, subsequent success and higher standard of living. Ergo, more likely so support the status quo, no changes please.
Yup, sad but true, doling out cash, major announcements, some for the second and third time, instill fear in the sheeple, organize, corral, bus, and transport your support to the polls, the model is in place.
It has been thus forever, the movie is in its umpteenth showing, the actors haven’t really changed, and fear still sells in the backwater of Canada. Sad but true, such promise, such a waste.
Model is, after a suitable period of preamble, taxpayer funded propoganda guised as Government advertising and public information, the writ will be dropped and the fear machine will get into high gear. The mailouts and faxes will come fast and furious to all departments, public employees, Crowns, everwhere there are dependants of the current state.
It is possible that a change will take place, but don’t hold your breath. Fear, envy, greed. Stalin knew how to use it, so do the NDP of Saskatchewan. One can only be thankful the borders east and west aren’t fenced and gaurded to keep the subjects contained.
This is an actual Soviet era poster. You can find it here:
http://www.answers.com/topic/wolfinsheepsclothing-png
So you see where the NDP are getting their ideas.
For those who are interested, Giant Political Mouse has the TV commercial that goes with the pamphlet up at his site. giantpoliticalmouse dot blogspot dot com
Cheers,
lance
No doubt it’s reassuring and downright nostalgic to the NDP’s aging and shrinking (in at least two senses of the word) political base to see one of the old socialist propaganda ploys from way back wheeled out one more time for one more flogging, but to those of us who were born nearer to the end of the last century than the beginning of it, the whole thing smells like something unpleasant that was found in grandma’s basement on a hot summer day. I suppose leaving out the glorious proletarian soldier was to be expected in a modern revival, but I do note that they retained roughly the same color scheme. Evidently the future always looks the same when you’re looking at it from the past.
The Saskatchewan party is a right wing party and there are things they would do, once in power, consistent with their belief system. They are concealing much of this, putting on a “moderate” facade. That is the point and it’s a legitimate one.
I like that second picture.
It depicts a sort of the Stalinist Socialist solution. If it doesn’t agree with me. Show my true colours and threaten/intimidate it into compliance.
😀
Exile, your are eating up the talking point and spitting it back out. Tired old words that the Liberals used on the CPC and the NDP use on anyone who does not have the same socialist bent. How about this one, you could use “Better the Devil you know then the Devil you don’t know” at least that would be closer to the truth.
A couple of years ago there was a small house trailer parked in a yard about ten miles from my home. It had evidently been used in a campaign, there was a faded “NDP” sign on it which grew more ragged with the seasons. That was fairly symbolic, i thought, then beside it they parked a junked car which had obviously been in a head-on collision. I got a laugh out of that little scene every time i drove past it.
The NDP have proven to the province that they are morally bankrupt on regular basis. To the NDP Murdock Carrier is a good old boy who was just misunderstood when he grabbed women and forced himself on them. Since Lorne was too much of a coward to stand up and defend himself he had Pat Atkinson stand up in the house and say that Murdock deserved, yes deserved, a few more hundred thousand for his pumped up provincial patronage pension. It was okay to make vicious and hurtful Nazi references in the previous election. Now that they have trampled on the sensibilities of women and Jews they are taking aim at the Mennonites by trying to smear a mild manner Mennonite man who comes from a pacifist tradition. Who will you pick on after the Mennonites, Lorne?
Where there is no risk, there is little gain. If the people in Saskatchewan are happy with the status quo, then so be it – everyone else’s gain.
If Saskawanabies think that they will possibly lose their fat paying government jobs if the NDP aren’t in power, they are delusional; the NDP is all about fear-mongering because they can’t offer anything to the populace. How would Saskawanabies feel if they made $100,000 in real estate value in a year, perhaps $500,000 in five years? Maybe if Saskawanabies should stop thinking so small and jump off the horse-drawn wagon into the 21st century, their lives would make a turn for the better. Housing prices in NE Saskatchewan have already made a huge leap because the oil sands in Alberta are close to their border.
You can be sure with the NDP that whatever they say about others is what they are themselves. The NDP is the wolf in sheep’s clothing, and if Saskawanables can’t figure that out after all these years, then there is another reason why the University of Regina is rated as one of the worst in Canada – graduates actually buy into their leftard professors spewing of socialist bullcrap.
Three anti conservative stories in the Star Phoenix on Saterday, two of them the same KKK stories as the Leader Post ran. It’s a sure sign an election is on the way.
Will the Star Phoenix and Leader Post be running any stories on Tommy Douglas and eugenics? Any on sterilising the handicapped?
HMMM, interesting. Let the games begin.
Start with the media lackeys, since they have no journalistic integrity, due to almost total absence of private enterprise, who are therefore beholden to the public purse and administrators thereof for their economic survival. They survive in the backwater by blending in, not by standing out with true reflection on the lies, deception, theft, mismanagement, and other skeletons the NDP has stashed in the closet. Dollars and potential lost revenue drive this train wreck masquerading as journalism.
So, find some slant stories, a hack to front them, and strategically place them with the pond fish of so called journalists and reporters, who must not rile waters, else they recieve notices of withdrawl of government ads and reprimands for daring to affront the masters of the universe. The NDP,Crowns, and agencies thereof.
Watch for step two, the many forthcoming ads and mailouts by the illustrious Crowns, Agencies, and boards, via the media, printers, radio, TV and mail. All of course spewing forth the immense benefit and good the entity has done for you, implying that you have much to lose, should they not continue their benificient acts on your behalf. Oh the joy of central planning, it is SO efficient, and after all, they know what is best for you.
Movies is on boys and girls. Time to go for popcorn. Yup, its still in black and white.
what no comments about the kkk?
jmorrison:
OK, I’ll bite.
Abortion clinics have killed more blacks in the US than the KKK would have ever dreamed of.
Your turn.
Tommy Douglas wrote his masters thesis on genetic purity, he’d fit right in with the KKK.
We even have a new school named after him, Tommy Douglas Collegiate, otherwise known as Eugenics High.
On the subject of the wolf in sheep’s clothing, maybe we should put Murdoch Carriere’s face on the sheep, that would be closer to the truth.
Or photoshop our beady eyed premier’s face onto a rat’s body, oh wait, that wouldn’t require photoshop.
spectatortwest.
Don’t forget the beer. We must have beer with our popcorn.
Tommy Douglas and the CCF have the only proven ties to the KKK in Saskatchewan, a fact the CCF/NDP deny, but the KKK at the time did not. Tommy even had Daniel C. Grant, an open KKK member and grand wizard, running his campaign in the 1930’s. There is a mountain of evidence connecting the KKK and CCF, right down to the fact that the KKK was run by the local Baptists and Methodists, the same bible thumpers who started the CCF. The cross overs are undeniable.
The Video link posted by Lance at August 27, 2007 11:22 AM above really pisses me off. I am not sure if they are trying to paint Saskatchewan residents as sheep(I am assuming ready to be fleeced) or the NDP government as sheep. Either way a I do not want my government to see me as a sheep and the thought of being led by sheep is yet another reason to move out of the province if the tired old party stays in power.
Those who don’t remember their past are doomed to repeat it and history demonstrates that all tories are scum, so yeah, the NDP are deplorable, until one considers the right-wing alternative.
Beware the “hidden agenda”.When are people going to stop falling for that line? It seems to always pop up when a party has no ideas,so they demonize thier opponents. Also that KKK fellow is saying a lot of things that many people are thinking. It is time for tough love for our natives,big job,has to start with parents raising thier children and making sure they get an education.
Beware the “hidden agenda”.When are people going to stop falling for that line? It seems to always pop up when a party has no ideas,so they demonize thier opponents. Also that KKK fellow is saying a lot of things that many people are thinking. It is time for tough love for our natives,big job,has to start with parents raising thier children and making sure they get an education.
The NDP claims to stand up for the middle class and working people. I guess only the Rich get to be politicians. How come the only rich we have left in Sask are the same old buggers who sit under the NDP banner? Corrupt, mis-guided, and its time for the NDP to go.
Back a few years ago John Neilson then the Minister of Health raised rates all seniors pay when living in NURSING homes. This was right after an election. He raised them so high that little old ladies whose husbands where in long term care facilities faced going on welfare or starving just to pay the outrageous price demanded by a good NDP Health minister. IS THIS A HIDDEN AGENDA? You may ask how could a NDP Health minister demand money for medical care? Lorne Calvert will go down as the worst Premier in Sask. history.
As much as we laugh at the NDP for their bungling attempts to govern, don’t forget they are very effective and ruthless at campaigning.
Volunteer, donate, talk politics to your non political friends, and don’t give the NDP an inch.
Let’s not blow this.
As soon as I saw the original ‘Wolf in sheep’s clothing’ post I got onto the Sask Party’s website and donated $50 to them. I feel nothing but total contempt for the NDP at this moment. We’ve all had enough of the mediscare crap every election, and enough of them scaring the blue haired grannies into voting for them. As for the “hidden agenda”, it begs the question, if it is hidden how does the NDP know about it? Total fabrication and outright lying on their part would be the most likely possibility.
The NDP always claims its for the “little guy” and are levelling the playing field.
They level the playing field alright to the lowest common denominator………..they do nothing but spread misery to all.
I think you guys would like the POK.
Does this mean that there are Marxists within the ranks of the Sask. NDP? I thought Douglas had purged the CCF of the Communists back in the 1940s?