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Politics is not always logical but logical politics are preferable to be logical politics. When a politician does not recognize this fact it is only a matter of time until the weakness of his position is exposed. A weak position might be adopted for tactical purposes, but it just might be an example of a [...]
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Abdel Hakim Belhadj is emerging as a political power in Libya. Belhadj is a military chief, and while he claims to see no role for himself in the post-Gadaffi cabinet. That is only a comfort to those who assume that Western Liberal democracy is the natural choice for everyone. Belhadj fought with the Taliban until [...]
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I recently watched an RSA video. They’re great and I recommend them. Just search RSA on YouTube to get started. Anyway, this one was entitled “Have the Elites Failed? Lessons from the Arab Spring”. It was interesting to listen to the comments of the panel, which included a Palestinian and an Israeli parliamentarian. The idea [...]
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There is a new idea out there that Tea Party and conservative Republican legislators are economic terrorists trying to annul the 2008 election of Barack Obama. The idea seems to be that for a democracy to work there has to be compromise (with the unspoken codicil that the compromise must be a specific one and [...]
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Parliamentarians can be guilty of misrepresenting issues for partisan motives. That isn’t always good for the rest of us. Bob Rae doesn’t believe in electing senators. On Evan Solomon’s Power and Politics podcast he described it as a unilateral change to the constitution by the Prime Minister. He also made the claim that its a [...]
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I reckon that in the light of the latest election results the battlefield is exposed for the Conservative party. There are three reasons for this. First and foremost, people in Ontario have determined in high enough number that the Prime Minister and the Conservatives are not as fearsome as they appeared to be in the [...]
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Elizabeth May is the leader of the Green Party of Canada. She’s never won an election, and the Green Party has never elected an MP. On the other hand, they got about 7% of the vote in the last election, and have been recognized as an official party, and receive tax dollar funding as a [...]
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