Harper’s Real Motives

I won’t pretend to be aware of all the details of this governmental clusterfuck du jour but I don’t doubt one thing and that is that Stephen Harper is a political genius despite that I disagree with his politics and ideological leanings.  It’s why he keeps winning. He’s the superior opponent and this is exactly what this latest crisis is about. It’s not about the budget or the global financial crisis or about ideological differences. It’s about power.

It was clear from the onset of this crisis that Harper and merry band of understudies, the Conservatives, had one goal in mind. When the three parties went up in arms it was about party funding, which would mostly run them into the ground. Harper was spraying bullets at everyone in sight but only to hide his intended target, his already weakened adversary, the Liberal party. This is what it’s all about; Harper is only positioning his peons. And he’s an aggressive psychotic chess player who will sacrifice his queen and his rooks in order to strike a fatal blow to his opponent.

Harper’s prima causa for this funding stunt can only serve one purpose, to pounce and obliterate his only viable adversary in future elections while they are already hemorrhaging following a disastrous election and finish them off once and for all. Sounds too dramatic? Maybe, but as vicious as we’ve seen Harper behave in question period, could you consider anything else? He’s ready to divide the country between the French vs. English issue again in order to retain power. Mere distractions to further his plan.

What better time to finally achieve his precious majority rule than to kill off a party while they have an extremely weak leader like Dion who can’t deliver a prerecorded videotape on time – and then it’s an amateur video disaster of monumental proportions that had most people hiding behind pillows as if they were watching a horror movie. It was sad. Sending a poodle to fight a pitbull is futile and desperate and will only weaken the party even more. The mighty Reds weakened and beaten by shoddy video production values, yes it’s that simple when fighting a manipulative duplicitous but brilliant adversary like Harper.

When will the opposing parties learn that conservative minded politicians win by one method alone – the mastery of language? They can redefine words, they can re-educate people with a “new truth” by repeating the same line over and over again. And they use the same dirty tactics the republicans use in the USA. Such as screaming that the coalition was signed with absence of a Canadian flag – which was untrue – but would have repeated it until everyone would have believed it and calling on a false sense of patriotism – which cheapens patriotism by dividing  people on questions of lapel pins. And of course he displays his mastery of language by saying one thing in English and another in French and even if being called on it, he’ll never admit to it.

The only thing that backfired on him was the coalition. I don’t think he believed it would come together. The liberals have a leader on borrowed time and they have to team up with a sovereignist party (and the NDP) to slap the Tories around? Who would have thought? But as the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So now we have a prorogued parliament thanks to a Governor General who has no balls.  It would have been interesting to see Her Excellency The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean simply turn her back to Harper and teach him a lesson in good manners. Time to face the music Stevie.

Now we once again have a non-functioning government – how many years going now? And we have once again the looming threat of elections in the spring and I for one am suffering from election fatigue. Could we please kick those Tories to the curb? Because if anyone thought that last few days were bad wait until the Tories have a majority government and then we will see their true agenda surface and come to fruition. And we will all pay the price.