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- From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.225314.3104@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
- References: <murphy.722262986@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Nov22.202155.25456@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 22:53:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.202155.25456@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Anthony Wallis) writes:
- >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.
-
- A party that's based on religious teachings is one that's doomed to
- fail in North American society. For a recent example, look at how
- repulsed Americans are at the latest incarnation of the Republican
- party. For a well documented example in the past, watch Malcolm X, the
- movie. If the PC ever got close to adopting the religious fervor
- evident in the Reform party's rhetoric, they would lose the Quebec vote
- completely, and that's no small potatoes.
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- Michael MY Hui ~{╨φ├≈╢≈~} myhui@bnr.ca Ottawa Canada
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