{"id":8672,"date":"2018-05-31T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2018-11-11T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T19:43:42","slug":"558-stone-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8672","title":{"rendered":"558 – Ontario’s Progressive Conservative identity crisis – Who’s Right and why"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the last broadcast before next week\u2019s Ontario provincial election, there is a sense of urgency in our sounding one last pre-election alarm about Ontario\u2019s very alarming state of affairs. It is a situation not unlike that in many other jurisdictions around the globe.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s at stake is freedom itself, and freedom has no voice in the Ontario legislature<\/strong>, and a very limited voice in the current Ontario election as heard only through representatives of the Freedom Party of Ontario.<\/p>\n

For those on the Right, Ontario\u2019s political crisis boils down to one of IDENTITY. If ever there was a need to place \u2018identity politics\u2019 in a valid context, it is with regard to political parties. In particular, it is the failure to properly IDENTIFY Ontario\u2019s Progressive Conservative Party as being on the Left<\/strong>, even as the party continues to be intentionally associated with values of the \u2018Right\u2019 by both the media and many \u2018conservatives\u2019 alike.<\/p>\n

This is significant, because individual freedom itself IS a value of the Right<\/strong>, but the philosophy necessary to achieve individual freedom is not being either preached or practiced by any other party besides Freedom Party<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sundry parties like Libertarian, Green, or Trillium have also been identified on the \u2018right,\u2019 when in fact they too are not so, despite the names and label associations they might ascribe to themselves. But among the worst offenders is Ontario\u2019s Progressive Conservative Party (which also has strong political and philosophical connections to the other mentioned parties).<\/p>\n

Whatever Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party represents, freedom and capitalism (the social and economic conditions that arise from doing what is actually Right) are not on the PC list. Like the Liberals and New Democrats, Progressive Conservatives are avid socialists who simply believe that they can make socialism more ‘efficient’.<\/strong> And they can and have. But It is the \u2018socialism\u2019 itself that is the cause of Ontarians\u2019 growing discontent, not merely the politicians of all parties who implement it.<\/p>\n

As we observed in 1983 (the year before Freedom Party was officially registered):<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, our political alternatives will remain in short supply as long as politicians and the public continue to share their mutual contempt toward the concepts (capitalism, free enterprise, private property) necessary to implement any real change in the direction of government. Until then, we\u2019ll have socialism, socialism, and even more socialism.\u201d (Autumn 1983, London MetroBulletin)<\/p>\n

And of course, that\u2019s exactly what has happened. No matter which of the \u2018big three\u2019 parties gets elected, Election\u201918 will only hasten, not slow, this sinister trend.<\/p>\n

Always hoping that they \u201cwon\u2019t get fooled again,\u201d Ontarians will once again be Left with a bowl of stone soup, after having been promised a gourmet meal.<\/p>\n

Sadly, most voters by their own admission will share a common frustration about having been reduced to voting for the \u2018lesser of three evils.\u2019 That\u2019s because when it comes to their options at the polling booth, most continue to suffer from the very identity crisis that blinds them to the choice that would be Just Right for them.<\/p>\n

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As the last broadcast before next week\u2019s Ontario provincial election, there is a sense of urgency in our sounding one last pre-election alarm about Ontario\u2019s very alarming state of affairs. It is a situation not unlike that in many other jurisdictions around the globe. What\u2019s at stake is freedom itself, and freedom has no voice [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51,69,596,28,165,6,3,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-conservatism","category-economics","category-ideas","category-latest","category-political-parties","category-politics","category-reality","category-taxes","issues-election-ontario-2018","issues-freedom-party-of-ontario","issues-gender-identity","issues-progressive-conservative-party-of-ontario","personalities-andrea-horwath","personalities-craig-needles","personalities-doug-ford","personalities-kathleen-wynne","category-12-id","category-51-id","category-69-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-165-id","category-6-id","category-3-id","category-607-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8679,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}