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<blockquote data-quote="Nik" data-source="post: 256982" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>As an economic migrant that spent a fair amount of time in Eastern & Western Europe during Communist and post-Communist times I can echo that Canada is definitely <strong><em>very </em></strong>far from making Karl Marx proud and attaining Socialist and Communist ideologies and autocratic rule so it's pretty amusing to see these terms being thrown loosely around by people who definitely have not experienced this first hand.</p><p></p><p>Countries may have 'socialist' sounding party names, some policies and norms and maybe socialist instruments (US owns USPS, France owns the railways, China owns some production) but that's as far <em>socialist</em> as things get in simple terms. Now autocracies, plenty of those around the world, Canada is very far from that and no we're not slipping into autocratic rule.</p><p></p><p>The majority parties in Canada are overall pretty centrist comparatively speaking in my opinion. They all tread on each others' toes on many issues (traditionally labelled left or right).</p><p></p><p>Now those that think the Liberals have a stranglehold on politics I want to remind you that you are still talking about a minority Government that had a shaky and misjudged re-election which gained them absolutely nothing politically and will likely hurt them in the future. It was not a rejection but definitely a slap in the proverbial face. Governments have changed in the past and will change again in the future - there's no doubt about this.</p><p></p><p>Political theory and naming conventions aside I definitely agree that there's deep distrust and malaise that has been sewn into politics and that will need to be addressed. Also remember social fabric and spectrum is changing, we're getting older and better looking, new generation that you and I may not agree with is mobilizing. At least I hope they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nik, post: 256982, member: 1"] As an economic migrant that spent a fair amount of time in Eastern & Western Europe during Communist and post-Communist times I can echo that Canada is definitely [B][I]very [/I][/B]far from making Karl Marx proud and attaining Socialist and Communist ideologies and autocratic rule so it's pretty amusing to see these terms being thrown loosely around by people who definitely have not experienced this first hand. Countries may have 'socialist' sounding party names, some policies and norms and maybe socialist instruments (US owns USPS, France owns the railways, China owns some production) but that's as far [I]socialist[/I] as things get in simple terms. Now autocracies, plenty of those around the world, Canada is very far from that and no we're not slipping into autocratic rule. The majority parties in Canada are overall pretty centrist comparatively speaking in my opinion. They all tread on each others' toes on many issues (traditionally labelled left or right). Now those that think the Liberals have a stranglehold on politics I want to remind you that you are still talking about a minority Government that had a shaky and misjudged re-election which gained them absolutely nothing politically and will likely hurt them in the future. It was not a rejection but definitely a slap in the proverbial face. Governments have changed in the past and will change again in the future - there's no doubt about this. Political theory and naming conventions aside I definitely agree that there's deep distrust and malaise that has been sewn into politics and that will need to be addressed. Also remember social fabric and spectrum is changing, we're getting older and better looking, new generation that you and I may not agree with is mobilizing. At least I hope they are. [/QUOTE]
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