Via Will, who is much terser, this analysis.
It must also be counted as for the good that Stephen Harper has resigned the leadership of the Conservative Party following his defeat. The party had been in need of a new leader for some time now. Without denying the good that has been accomplished on his watch, such as the abolition of the long-gun registry and the restoration of the “Royal” designation of our Navy and Air Force, the greatest achievement of the Conservative government, the scrapping of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, was brought about by a private member’s bill without Harper’s support and overall he has been a disappointment as a Conservative leader. His courting of the votes of social conservatives while refusing to do anything to halt or reverse the social and moral decay of the country is one example, his Yankee style neoconservative approach to foreign policy coupled with his ludicrous inversion of Teddy Roosevelt’s proverb “speak softly and carry a big stick”, is another. His government’s countless attempts to police Canadians thoughts and words on the internet, culminating in this year’s Bill C-51 was the last straw for me as far as ever voting for the party again while it remained under his leadership was concerned.
Worst of all, however, was his cuckservatism. If you are not familiar with that expression, is has recently become popular in altright, neoreactionary, and other right-wing movements outside of established mainstream conservatism to refer to the tendency, within the latter, to embrace multiculturalism, Third World immigration, political correctness, feminism, and basically the left-wing “rainbow strategy” of appealing to the interests of everyone except whites, Christians, heterosexuals, males and especially all of these combined. Stephen Harper was and is the quintessential Canadian cuckservative, despite the ridiculous efforts of the left-wing parties and media to portray him as a rabid, xenophobic, racist, bigot.
From the comments, in the same post, the best description of what is one’s duty that I have seen. If you substitute New Zealand, I could easily co-sign it.
The left and the cucks want to say being a Kiwi or a Canuck is something to do with ideology. It is deeper than that: it is a land with your ancestors buried in it and family blood spilt for it. You can love your country and hate the government. The great advantage of the Parliamentary system is the symbol of our loyalty is not the current Prime Minister or Government (The Trudeaus please take note) but the Queen: not a constitution but a person: not legalism but mercy and justice.
I do not hate Canada. I assume that you are familiar with Enoch Powell. Apart from his famous immigration speech (interestingly, given on the same day Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada), he was noted for speaking out against proposed reforms to the House of Lords that would lessen hereditary privilege, for defending the free market and other libertarian concepts against the “post-war consensus” as a Tory backbencher decades before the rise of Thatcherism, and as the Euroskeptic nationalist who so opposed entry to the Common Market that he told people to vote against his own party over it. In the early 1980s,a discussion took place between Powell and Margaret Thatcher, in which the latter talked about the need for high tech weapons to fight for “our values”, and Powell told her that it is not values we fight for and that he would fight for Britain even if she had a Communist government. Powell’s was, in every way, the more authentic conservative vision.
Canada is my country, and I refuse to hate Canada just because I despise the present government (in the sense of Prime Minister and Cabinet) and object to the high amount of taxes we pay.
We need true reform and true conservatism, not those who worry about being seen as uncouth or unwanted. To quote one of the few magazines still worth buying…. and in this case, Australia, where Turnbull is being encouraged to go full Cuckservative…
Freedom of expression and religious freedom are cornerstones of Australian democracy and understandably governments are loath to curb either. But the government had no trouble banning Christian anti-abortionist, Troy Newman, on the flimsiest of pretexts even though there is little evidence that Newman was inciting violence. John Stuart Mill argued that there should be the fullest liberty of expression to push arguments to their logical limits rather than the limits of social embarrassment.
‘The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.’
We do the opposite. Political correctness silences a debate about Islamism, which allows Islamists wolves to prey on Muslim flocks. There is abundant evidence that Islamist hate speech inspires violent crimes.
Yet it is we who are cowed into silence, not the friends of Hamas.
Do not be silent. Treat their censors with scorn. Do not be like them, lest you, too, be cuckolded.
Interesting. I never would have guessed that you would start throwing the “cuck” term around.
Welcome to the world of the “non-respectable” right. Respectability is overrated. There is nothing better than watching a cuck or a shitlib squeal at the mean things you say besides watching them not know what to do when you refuse to back down.