From the top down...
It really gets to me when certain individuals interested in our party say that they will wait to see if we, "pick up momentum". There are many people that currently hold memberships with the Conservative party that are not happy with the direction the party is taking, but are far too removed from the Liberal Party to join with them.
It is sad that the right-of-centre alternative (that is Progressive Conservative) is still available, under the new Progressive Canadian banner, but still many of our potential members feel that they are better to sit with the CPC instead of working with us to rebuild the centrist alternative.
We are a socially progressive and fiscally conservative party. The new Conservative Party is not socially progressive.
However, if history is of any use, it will be that a party that does not respond to it's membership and a party where most decisions come from the top down, is destined to fail. I patiently await the self-destruction of Harper's Conservatives. Just as the Canadian Alliance/Reform party eventually led the takeover of the Progressive Conservative Party, we will eventually take the centrist membership from the CPC.
Slowly, surely, and patiently, we will rebuild the Progressive Conservative alternative.
It really gets to me when certain individuals interested in our party say that they will wait to see if we, "pick up momentum". There are many people that currently hold memberships with the Conservative party that are not happy with the direction the party is taking, but are far too removed from the Liberal Party to join with them.
It is sad that the right-of-centre alternative (that is Progressive Conservative) is still available, under the new Progressive Canadian banner, but still many of our potential members feel that they are better to sit with the CPC instead of working with us to rebuild the centrist alternative.
We are a socially progressive and fiscally conservative party. The new Conservative Party is not socially progressive.
However, if history is of any use, it will be that a party that does not respond to it's membership and a party where most decisions come from the top down, is destined to fail. I patiently await the self-destruction of Harper's Conservatives. Just as the Canadian Alliance/Reform party eventually led the takeover of the Progressive Conservative Party, we will eventually take the centrist membership from the CPC.
Slowly, surely, and patiently, we will rebuild the Progressive Conservative alternative.
posted by TB at 10:17 AM
1 Comments:
Just discovered your post on my blog from Waaaaaaaaaaaaay back. Thanks for posting.
I have some sympaties for the politics of the older Conservatives (eg Joe Clark, who I think may have been the most viciously and pointlessly maligned PM/politician in our history) and very little with the Reform/Alliance/Nu-Cons.
I am left wing but would probably vote for an old style Tory party just to try and turn the tide against the Harperites.
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