Canadian Conservatives Win. Lefties Lick Wounds

The shell-shocked ramblings of Canadian leftists in the wake of a new majority government of political conservatives is amusing to see. The recognition of impressive gains by the socialist New Democratic Party has done little to numb the pain, since lefties will have less power than when they worked under a minority regime.

While I've been on the right side of the political continuum for some years, I still count among my friends a number of honorable lefty Canucks, several of whom contribute to The Propagandist. Notably, several of these progressive chums do not identify with the NDP; they like the part of the NDP that sticks up for workers and families, but hate the prominent anti-imperialist wing that thinks its OK to abandon poor victims of the Taliban or Hugo Chavez, so long as it upsets the USA and NATO. Socialist unity and support for universal human rights isn't supposed to end at the borders of the world's most developed nations.

If I gloat a little, it is at the expense of the self-serving twits who the true progressives of The Propagandist wouldn't be caught dead with.

First up, a bit of poetry from the Rabble by Trish Hennessey, in which she flirts with political apathy (the cozy cottage of the rejected):

Resisting the lure.

This temptation (affliction?) to disengage. Unplug. Take a pass.

To leave the messiness of democracy to the others.

Then we have a sad philosophical piece by Montreal Simon:

And the next moment I realized. I wasn't in Canada anymore... 

Cutting to a YouTube clip of a singing Hitler Youth. Subtle.

Finally, we have Dr. Dawg.

So Stephen Harper is now ruling the country, with a mandate from 24% of the adult citizenry of Canada. He triumphed last night, but democracy didn’t.

Naturally, because it's only a real parliamentary democracy if your side wins.

Jonathon Narvey is the Editor of The Propagandist