Who cares of being left or right |
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Nipawin - July 6, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis | |
leftist |
Traditionally and conventionally, economic policies have been described as being leftist or rightist. |
And as a consequence, the related political parties supporting these policies have been described | |
as leftist and rightist, and the elected representatives of the people have been sitting to the left or | |
to the right in the legislative assembly. | |
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This conceptualization of economic political policies was carried at the international, national and |
local level. So, if we refer to the immediate post World War II political setting, we had capitalism | |
versus communism at the international level, and in Canada we had the New Democratic Party | |
versus the Conservative Party at the national level, and we had these same latter parties at the local | |
level in Saskatchewan. | |
regionalized |
I find very intriguing that today, at a time of rapid technological and social changes, we still think |
in these political terms of left and right. Traditional communism has died with the breakdown of | |
the Soviet Union, our Canadian national policies have regionalized and lost their significance of | |
left and right, yet our Saskatchewan policies are identified as socialistic policies under the NDP | |
party and as right wing under the recently formed Saskatchewan Party. | |
freedom |
I mean, who cares if Romanow's policies are socialistic when we have rampant corruption in our |
textured leadership and the blame is always put on the people who do the work. For me, there is | |
no more left and right, what I care is to have our freedom back and live in a motivating and | |
democratic society. |