2. Cons will flog the recession talk in unison everywhere to get people to believe it. They’ll cite myths and anecdotes about families barely making it (some aren’t doing well as is true in any economy).
3. Cons scare monger about debt,deficits as though GDP doesn’t matter. They misinform people by emphasizing large macro numbers and using the language of personal debt to confuse people into thinking the only good gov =0 debt/deficit to prime people to accept austerity.
4. Canada has never been at 0 debt and it would be utterly irresponsible if they were. Millions would suffer to get there. Running and managing debt, deficits are the responsibility of all govs. Serving the needs of citizens is gov’s job!
5. Providing programs for public health, environmental health, education, welfare of the people, infrastructure, justice, police, defence, political stability are the responsibility of gov - these are what make a place attractive for investment and encourage entrepreneurs.
6. Cons believe in trickle-down, austerity, cutting taxes and cutting “red tape” (which really means cutting regulations designed to keep businesses accountable and to protect citizens from harm). Cons’ interest is in subsidizing their patrons’ campaign donations thru schemes.
7.Cons get people to accept reduced services, to accept ‘paying one’s own way’ to accept job losses and financial suffering for The Others so we can fix the mythical ‘damage’ the non-Con govs are blamed for. Providing programs for public health, education, etc are ‘unaffordable’.
8. Cons gut gov revenues by giving massive tax cuts to their favourite businesses to reward them for Con support as their answer to the people that this is necessary to get biz to save jobs. Cons cripple gov services then sell those off for a buck to their fav private interests.
9. Cons siphon nation’s wealth into pockets of biz which shows up in E-suite compensation, bonuses.
10. Cons distract by offering baubles (crumbs) with much fanfare to specific interests such as hockey fans, beer drinkers, homeschoolers, etc. who they call ‘everyday Canadians’ or “hard working families”. This is how they trick supporters into believing Cons are there for them.
11. At the same time they cut supports to those who won’t vote for them such as minorities, immigrants, single women, etc. They also deride those groups as undeserving of all but the greatest derision & disgust - as anti-Canadian, lazy, special interests who want hand outs
12. They divide by encouraging hatred against all who want (and as human beings, are fully entitled to) equality and want to insist on their human rights.
This divide is fostered in order to separate people from their money while blaming The Others as the cause for their personal hardships.
The divide is meant to separate citizens from their gov., to diminish citizenship in favour of consumers or taxpayers where your only value is your tribal interest & capacity to pay. It’s meant to halo corporate interests, knighting them as do-gooder saviours as they exploit you
Those corporate interests are big donors, supporters of Cons more than any others. Corporations are autocratic, anti-democratic. They favour autocratic parties to further their interests and those interests are not citizens.
Cons and big biz are busy redefining “economy” to mean growth in corporate capital and nothing more. This means their interest is in getting citizens to vote against The Others - to see equality as an existential threat to their own personal prosperity vote against it -
Biz & Cons want you to vote for a widening of inequality - to vote for a wider gap between The Deserving (rich & those who believe they should be) and The Undeserving Others (poor & those who don’t deserve to get ahead of The Deserving).
Con supporters see themselves as, the ‘hard workers who just can’t get ahead’. They see themselves as The Deserving who believe The Undeserving Others are stealing from them.
No matter how well a Deserving Con is doing, as long as there is an Undeserving doing as well or better than a Con, the Con believes they are suffering. They HATE equality. They want a divide between them and The (Undeserving) Others. They want a crevasse between rich and poor.
Corporate funded & staffed Conservative parties want to be rich and their citizen supporters are misled by shared ideologies as part of The Deserving tribe, that they will become rich too if they can help the rich businesses and plutocrats punish & defeat the Undeserving Others.
All the while, the corporate-funded Conservative parties in power are dismantling the very gov services and supports that make life better and reduce suffering in order to download costs to individuals what were once covered by public programs.
Cons increase suffering and deplete personal wealth. They feed their base some red meat narratives to keep them hooked and occasionally sprinkle economic crumbs to keep them from turning against the Con party. But eventually they do turn.
Red Tape is code for gutting gov programs &services, reducing transparency &eliminating citizen voices from regulatory approvals processes. It’s to cut the citizens out of ‘business’ decisions, to hand the people’s government over to private interests, to disempower citizens.
Cons are in service to their corporate benefactors to commodify and extract profit from citizens and the commons. They want to control our commons and charge the citizens a fee for access or deny access altogether.
