Hilarious letter from a Conservative former Conservative supporter to the Prime Minister over at Garth Turner’s blog.
First, the Tory bloggers, or blogging Tories, as they officially group themselves on the world wide web. Seriously – have you looked at the hateful spite spewing out of these internet sites? It’s like graffiti you’d find in the washroom of a home for angry old men. They hate everyone. They loathe any woman on television. They detest people who live in cities, perhaps even anyone with indoor plumbing. They scream at anyone who doesn’t think like they do. Do yourself a favour, Mr. Harper: never look at the Small Dead Animals site. Stephen King should be suing these folks for plagiarism. They talk like the evil townsfolk in his horror novels.
I understand you ultimately have no control over these people. So let’s move a little closer to home.
ar arr arrrr! small dead animals is the Canadian Little Green Footballs. Nah. That’s being unfair to LGF. Somebody has to be the equivalent of verbal road kill and be proud of it. It is so far out there they get a lot of traffic just because we mediocre types are dazzled by the spectacular on the internet tubes.
If you want to read a good Tory blog, and I do mean a good one, may I recommend The Prairie Wrangler? He can write and think at the same time and he has a sense of humour, a rare trait in today’s political climate on that side of the isle. Back to the letter writer.
I thought that when Conservatives finally came to office, there might be some joy in the land. I thought the people in government might look like they’re having a good time. But everyone in your world looks a little haunted; cowering or glowering in fear. Good-natured MPs and long-time Conservative pundits, like Monte Solberg or James Moore or Jeff Norquay, don’t look very comfortable spouting vitriol on TV. Can’t you make them stop?
Monty Solberg used to blog. I liked wandering over. He closed up shop, (can’t find his blog in the Internet Wayback Machine) when he went into Cabinet, toeing the line and being a proper MP and all that. Our loss.
Good letter. A bit more joy in the land would be grand.
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Ever read Erik Hoffer’s views on True Believers?
Whooee! Oh, won’t it be joyful joyful, joyful…
Guess not. The Cons can’t be joyful on accounta they ain’t got the 40% support they need to run Canada as if they had 100% support. They’d rather campaign for a majority than work for the interests of Canajuns.
An’ yer right as rain wrt SDA. I disagree that Harp shouldn’t go there, though. I think he should be aware of what his strongest supporters believe. As bad as he is, I can’t accept the idea that he’d endorse the reactionary views expressed by his champions.
JimBobby
You sir (or mam, I couldn’t find any gender identification on your About page, so I’m playing the odds), are too kind. Just to correct a slight inaccuracy in your post - I certainly do not write and think at the same time. I wish! Normally, I write a post, take a break to chew a piece of gum, and then, if I have time, think about what is said. Then I stop thinking, write again, and hope that the post more closely reflects my thoughts. Then I read it, and think about it, and when I’m done thinking, try to write again. It usually takes between 15 and 30 drafts before my posts are sufficiently close to my thoughts to be presented to the public. Occassionally, you will read a string of sustained idiocy, which is usually the result of laziness for which I apologise. Anyways, glad you enjoy the site, and I hope you comment when you’re so inclined - I appreciate nothing more than a thoughtful centrist.
See, that’s one reason why I like your blog so much, you even chew gum thoughtfully, I’m sitting here chewing madly and posting.:^)
Blog on!
I haven’t Joe, just looked it up. Looks like a book to settle down with on a snowy weekend. Thank you.
From wiki: re: True Believers “They also include seemingly benign mass movements which are neither political nor religious. A core principle in the book is Hoffer’s insight that mass movements are interchangeable; he notes fanatical Nazis later becoming fanatical Communists, fanatical Communists later becoming fanatical anti-Communists, and Saul, persecutor of Christians, becoming Paul, a fanatical Christian himself. For the true believer the substance of the mass movement isn’t so important as that he or she is part of that movement.”
Marvin Olasky of World Magazine immediately springs to mind unbidden. I’m reading Chris Hedges latest book at the moment, interesting he is touching on similar themes.