Canadians might have once again demonstrated this H. L. Mencken observation about Canadian politics.
Canada is Canada, not Alabama. This is the place that practically invented gay marriage, legalized dope smoking, gun control, criminalizing opposition to racial diversity and homosexuality, and nationalized health care.
Yet, for Canadian voters to swing away from left-wing parties toward an extremely moderate conservative solution, with the Calgarian Stephen Harper as its leading face, means that there is something amiss north of the border.
Mr. Harper did not promise to end abortion, criminalize marijuana, or rescind national health care; as far as I can tell, all he promised is to enact nuanced reforms in many of these, and perhaps try to re-criminalize gay marriage, but even that is not a given. Still, some dynamic behind the curtains was at work for even a moderate conservative party to win as many new converts as it did. Sometimes, politics works that way. Don’t forget, Jerry Springer was once mayor of Cincinnati at a time when that city still had a lot of conservative white voters.
Consider all of the pieces to the puzzle: One, there was a significant vote swing from liberal parties to Mr. Harper’s Conservative Party. Two, the MSM here is barely saying anything about it. Three, the Canadian MSM isn’t much more helpful.
The Council of Conservative Citizens is blessed to have someone on its Board of Directors who is a Canadian, and perhaps, from him, we will find out the truth, but my instincts right now, knowing what little I know, leads me to believe that Mr. Harper made veiled appeals to white Canadian voters based on racial and immigration issues. Obviously, neither our MSM or the Canadian MSM will be sure to let us know that, because if they did, it would send the message that you win white voters by being pro-white. What a concept.
Canadians by-and-large, white or otherwise, are not fond of American military prowess, and do not have much of their own. To wit: You St. Louisans remember the Illinois Air National Guard member who was court-martialed for his accidental bombing-deaths of several Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002. Those were Canada’s first combat deaths in their Armed Forces since the Korean War.
Mr. Harper was dogged by his friendliness toward the Bush administration and his tacit approval of the Iraq War, but still won enough swing votes in anti-war, anti-military Canada. Perhaps the reason for that is that Mr. Harper linked the American War on Terror to a Global Race War on Arabs/Muslims, and then pointed the finger at increasingly Arabic/Muslim Toronto. Once again, that is just my theory. Only time, and a conversation with a certain Canadian, will tell.