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- From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Anthony Wallis)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.202155.25456@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University
- References: <murphy.722262986@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:21:55 GMT
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- Daniel A. Murphy in the US wonders:
- > Can someone give me a good idea what the Reform Party stands for and how
- > it differs from the Conservatives?
-
- Simple.
- The Reform Party is a half-baked attempt to be a conservative party in
- the traditional sense of the word. The closest thing we have to a
- "religious right" party. Its ideology is much in tune with the
- theology of the Judeo-Christian deity that has been dominant in the
- West until fairly recently. (Which is the real reason it is hated in
- certain quarters.)
- The "Conservative" (full name "Progressive Conservative" - whatever
- that means) party, and the other two mainline parties, named the
- "Liberals" and the "New Social Democratic Activist Party" (NSDAP),
- or something, all believe in taxes, appeasement of special interest
- groups, and offering taxpayers' money as propitiation to angry modern
- secular gods.
-
- * Names of currently fashionable Canadian secular deities :
- Anti-Racism, Pay-Equity, Affirmative-Action, etc.
- (You know, the same pantheon you have in the States.)
-
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- tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada
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