Comments on: They Call It Democracy – Part 6

By: Stuart Hertzog

Stuart Hertzog — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:34:50 +0000

Yes, I’ve noticed a degree of mental instability in some of the comments that have been submitted to this site, especially regarding my stand in Saanich-Gulf Islands. It seems that when it comes to politics, people allow themselves to foam at the mouth, yet they point to the behaviour of politicians as reprehensible and beyond civility. Perhaps politics is an outlet for people’s repressed rage, a social safety valve? But I wonder why these people have such repressed rage in the first place.

By: GPC Observer

GPC Observer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:13:51 +0000

A trouncing so complete that the mentally unstable will think it’s a victory. I think Stuart knows something about that!

By: Sebastian Ronin

Sebastian Ronin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:48:27 +0000

Yes, but relative to the my trouncing last week, courtesy the membership of the GPNS, they are not even prepared to seriously entertain politically the entry onto post-ecological tipping point…never mind Post-Peak Oil. The mantra remains the same: smooth transition to some nebulous Green nirvana with inhabitants dressed in hemp clothing. One has to hand it to Stuart Parker: the “tie-dye mafia” retains its stranglehold…right to the last. Will it dawn on them that their own stranglehold has turned on them?

As for any kind of “glory” it is light years removed from a comfortable night’s sleep inside my skin, enveloped within the grace of a clear political conscience.

(BTW, my “trouncing” was so complete as to paradoxically flip itself into a significant victory.)

By: Stuart Hertzog

Stuart Hertzog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:51 +0000

Thanks, Sebastian. It hasn’t been a total waste of time: the human race has managed to increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere significantly in the interim. There’s glory for you!

By: Stuart Hertzog

Stuart Hertzog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:58:43 +0000

I hear that there are similar strains within the NDP. A change of party may be just the joy of change. As for fools and idiots, see below.

By: Sebastian Ronin

Sebastian Ronin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:17:20 +0000

Stuart, thank you for the time and effort you have invested in not only your campaign, but in this series of articles as a sort of post-analysis and de-brief. Will your message and concerns fall on deaf ears and blind eyes within the GPC community? Likely. If they did not, then it would not be the status quo GPC community, yes?

IMO, your conclusion that “…the Green Party is condemned to being a useless participant in a pathological and predatory industrial culture,” is spot on as applies to the federalists. As a tangent to your classification of “useless participant” what comes to mind is the complimentary classification of “useful idiot.” The only hope left for realistic eco-politics is at the provincial/regional levels, where “Green” politics was meant to be applied all along. The current global crisis, with its myriad of sub-layers, rejuvenates to an entirely new degree this onus for re-localization.

As for the May Party? For it to go down and disintegrate in righteous flames along with its leader when she gets trounced in SGI will be both tactical and strategic boosts to the re-empowerment of provincial parties. The federalist useful idiots can decry their loss till the cows come home. It will all be for naught.

Twenty-five years! Such a waste of political time and energy.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:32:00 +0000

So are you ready to come to the NDP? There’s definitely more party politics in play, but we actually have a progressive stance and have the chance to affect change for the better.