Having witnessed the political party machinations in Canada on both the provincial and federal level, it should not be surprising that there have been calls to reduce the influence of political parties.
Operating on the principles of a British parliamentary system, Ontario’s Doug Ford, after having won a two-week February snap election called on a whim, has since made an utter fool of himself attempting to beat US president Donald Trump in a tariff war. Meanwhile, Mark Carney, now Canada’s Prime Minister, was never elected to office and is an open advocate of globalism and an opponent of Canadian sovereignty.
With only 19% of Ontario’s eligible voters giving Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party a majority government, and with zero voters on the federal level having elected Mark Carney, some might be asking whatever happened to the ‘democratic’ principle of ‘we the people’?
In Canada, there is one federal party that has addressed this question head-on in its very name: the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) under the leadership of Maxime Bernier.
Unfortunately, there are those who incorrectly believe that political parties are ‘democratic institutions’ in and of themselves, and that the direction of a party should be determined by some kind of voting process. One such person is past PPC candidate Frank Vaughan, whose complete misunderstanding about the nature of political parties has infected him with what can only be called a ‘Bernier Derangement Syndrome’. Even though having been predominantly a voice on the Right, his ‘deranged’ understanding of the political process has blinded him to those who should be allies.
This is not unlike the severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome suffered by none other than the Ayn Rand Institute’s Yaron Brook, another voice associated with the Right – and with Objectivism itself. Condemning Trump solely on the grounds that he “can’t think of anyone with a lower character,” his ad hominem ranting against Trump, never offering any evidence to support his judgment, is yet another example of someone associated with the Right blinded to someone who should be an ally – and blinded even to the nature of politics.
As supposed advocates of freedom and capitalism, Brook and Vaughan have both distanced themselves from their best means to those ends.
Unavoidably, political parties are the natural and correct modes of association through which the average individual can get a voice in government. Unfortunately, when it comes to political parties, the Left has created a myriad of choices; the Right usually has none or, at best, one.
This reality is lost to most on the Right, who mistakenly identify many Leftist parties as being ‘right wing’ – especially when mislabeled ‘Conservative’ or ‘Republican.’ Then, noticing that the party they have identified as such is doing exactly the same things as the parties on the Left, they conclude that ‘Left and Right’ no longer are distinguishable – that there is no longer a political polarity, and all that remains is a ‘Uniparty.’
If those on the Right truly want a political option, they must establish one, or at least support a party on the true Right that already exists. It must be understood that political parties themselves are not ‘mini-democracies.’ They are private associations of people with a like mind or objective who participate in the democratic process during elections. In this sense, political parties are no more ‘democratic associations’ than any voter is a ‘democratic individual.’
The reason that some believe political parties should have their influence reduced is because they’re objecting to the Leftist parties in power. But reducing the influence of political parties in general is self-defeating. What is needed are political parties with increased influence coming from the Right.
Leftist ideology has effectively merged numerous political parties into a Uniparty. So to the Right, the question must be asked: Where’s the party?
Sadly, most electoral jurisdictions still don’t have one. Happily, it is still possible for concerned individuals to establish or support such a party.
All that is necessary is to ensure that such a party is founded on principles that are Just Right for freedom and thus, pointed in the Right direction, the political storms of the Leftist zeitgeist can at last be resisted and defeated.
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