On April 03 2012 01:29 Lexpar wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2012 00:47 Torte de Lini wrote:On April 02 2012 22:12 Lexpar wrote:On April 02 2012 05:23 Torte de Lini wrote:On April 01 2012 04:00 Lexpar wrote:On April 01 2012 03:17 nttea wrote:
I'm pretty sure i saw you have like 1-2k posts once... then i blinked
Yup I remember being at posting parity with Torte. Then he just exploded way ahead of me, and now theres no chance for me to catch up :p
IT's not about the numbers, but about what you say.
Were you at yesterday's event?
The White-Ra thing? No unfortunately
. I've been bunkered down studying for a politics test all weekend. Go ahead and ask me
anything about the liberal party.
1. Sorry to hear that D:
2. How does contemporary Liberal parties differ from the origianl Liberal ideology. We can see there is quite a distance with modern Conservative views to the more capitalistic-centered ideas of conservatism.
I don't think the modern liberal party has diverged tremendously from liberal ideals, or at least not more than everyone else has. Classical liberalism embraces a pretty harsh sink or swim capitalistic system with no government intervention, which nearly everyone agrees is a bad idea now. Obviously the government has become quite large, but again, every liberal government in the world saw its government grow substantially over the 20th century.
Over the last 100 years, the liberal party forcefully dragged the conservative party to the left. Universal healthcare, pensions, bilingualism, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: these are all really good ideas that the Liberals implemented, that Canadians have become attached to. Conservatives have no choice but to support these leftist policies, because they've proved to be so popular with Canadians.
Its hard for me to say exactly how today's liberal party compares. Last election was weird as heck. I don't expect to see the same NDP support in 2015, but it remains to be seen what the Liberal's party platform will look like by then, and who will be leading them.
Hopefully that answers that a little bit? I was mostly studying Laurier's policies, so maybe I shouldnt have said "ask me anything". :p
EPT
(Torte is female and therefore used with the "die" article)
