Stephen Harper, Insane in a Sane Country
Okay. I didn't want to post this before Christmas, but then I thought, "Christmas?! What the hell do I care about Christmas?!", so here goes: I think the bizarro reaction from Stephen Harper about the mess the economy is in (as in, how does an economist Prime Minister of Canada not see a Depression coming until it actually hits his country smack in the resource sector?) is because the New Conservative Government of Canada deliberately made all those double jeopardy moves it did to ENSURE there would be a Canadian Depression.
"But why?!, Sooey", you ask. Well, because Stephen Harper is an ideologue who believes that the federal government is THE problem, that Canada would be a better country if it wasn't. But because most Canadians stubbornly cling to the notion of nationhood, it became up to its government to destroy the country from within.
I mean, I don't think he did it for us, or anything - I think he did it because his belief system compels him to behave in a way that, well, if he wasn't such a good politician - we'd think was kind of insane - for a Prime Minister of Canada, anyway.
On the other hand, it wasn't hard for him to get the deed done, was it? Which should tell us something about the sell-outs that preceded him. But at least we could count on the Liberals wanting power so they could have it. It looks to me (through my bi-focals, at least) that Stephen Harper wanted power to give it up.
