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082704 0825 Political leanings I am a conservative. If I was an American, it would mean that I was Republican – which I would be – that I do not like big government, that I believe in a strong foreign policy - AND A STRONG MILITARY, and that I believe in traditional family values. Saying that here in Canada means a great deal more, because in this country, which is left of the US, we are a dying breed.
Most Canadians hate being compared to the US – they spend their lives showing how different they are. Canadians are so insecure about their identity that they identify themselves more as something they are NOT rather than as something they ARE. They hate the US because they don’t want to BE the US.
I am a realist. And though I love being a Canadian and I love my country, I know that my culture and values are more similar to the US than any other in the world. While I love the things that make me Canadian – and, thus, different from the US – I am proud to say I love America. America is like Canada’s big brother. And if my brother was threatened by some punk or got into a fight in the schoolyard, I would run up to fight alongside him. Because I know he would do the same for me. But most of all, because he’s my brother, and the others aren’t. I love my country, but I am not afraid to say I also love the US.
Like an American, I say that I am a Canadian, period. I’m not a Chinese Canadian, a Canadian Chinese, Asian Canadian, CBC, or whatever else the Canadian cultural mosaic says I am. I hate the cultural mosaic. My grandparents came to Canada because they wanted to be Canadian. They believed that Canada was better than where they were, and being a Canadian is better than being a Chinese national. I am Canadian because it is where I was born, where I was raised, where my values are from, and where my loyalties lie. I do not support Chinese athletes in the Olympics, and IF it ever came to a war involving Canada and China, I would fight every Chinese national to keep my country safe.
The cultural mosaic produces people like the Khadr family: who were encouraged to keep their culture. They were encouraged so much that after we let the father raise funds for Al-Qaeda, after the brothers trained for jihad against the west in Al-Qaeda camps, and after the brothers were captured in a battle that killed Canadian allies in a war Canada was fighting, we let them back into the country. We let them back in and allowed them to benefit again from society’s institutions and protections. We let them back in and as a reward for killing our allies, I, as a taxpayer, am paying for the terrorist’s medical bills. This is while our own pensioners and veterans - people who spent their whole life giving to CANADIAN society - don't have enough money to buy their meds AND eat, so choose between the two. That’s fucked up.
As our society leans further and further to the left, I find that liberal values are becoming less and less compatible with my own. However, I do respect the Liberal party and the work the Liberal government did to get social spending and our deficit under control (that is a very conservative aspect of our government). And I do respect our country as a democracy and if the majority of Canadians THAT VOTED wants our country to continue down the liberal path – I respect that as well. I do not respect those who do not vote. Oh, and I hate socialists. Better dead than red.
Also, I hate people that form uneducated opinions. They believe something because somebody else tells them or they hear it in the “news” (the media is definitely left-wing, and the CBC is the worst of the lot). God gave you a brain – use it. Do your own research. Find out for yourself if what Michael Moore says about 9-11 is true (which it isn’t) or false (which it is). If your expertise and degree is in computers, talk about computers, not politics. If it’s in English lit, talk about poetry, not business. I have a degree in International Relations, so McGill University declares I’m a SME (subject matter expert) and I’m qualified to talk about politics. And my MBA also says I can talk about free trade and unlike all the commies and professional activists out there, I know what I'm talking about.
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