12 years of living and working in BC 1990's-2000's.
I am convinced that for about 50 years BC must be ruled by a Military Commission for Restoring Civilizational Sanity. Strictly controlled educational curriculum to instill independent critical thinking, to instill rejection of any form of extremism, and to instill everyday practice of vigorous open debate. No elections for 30 years, then 20 years of advisory only elections.
The current moment in BC politics certainly seems to rhyme with the '90s: NDP government initially led by a pragmatic centrist, who's succeeded by a more ideological leader who spends like a drunken sailor. The old right wing BC party finally collapses in on itself, and a new right wing party rapidly grows to replace it. However, the leader who started the rise gets replaced by somebody else. In the '90s, the NDP premiers were Mike Harcourt and Glen Clark. The old right wing party was Social Credit, and the new one was the BC Liberals. Gordon Wilson took the Liberals to opposition status, but was replaced by Gordon Campbell who eventually took them on to form government.
What's different this time is that there's an incipient civil war on the political right between populists and the older establishment conservatives. The populists have the energy, but they're politically toxic to a majority of the voting public, especially voters in the Lower Mainland who end up holding the balance of power in elections. The right quickly shifted to the BC Conservatives as the vehicle to defeat the NDP in the last election, but it's pretty hard to figure out what else they share in common.
12 years of living and working in BC 1990's-2000's.
I am convinced that for about 50 years BC must be ruled by a Military Commission for Restoring Civilizational Sanity. Strictly controlled educational curriculum to instill independent critical thinking, to instill rejection of any form of extremism, and to instill everyday practice of vigorous open debate. No elections for 30 years, then 20 years of advisory only elections.
The sooner this party can talk Brad West into running the sooner they can measure the drapes. Eby is on borrowed time
Good lord. What a fiasco. Thank you for helping the rest of us understand what happenned.
The current moment in BC politics certainly seems to rhyme with the '90s: NDP government initially led by a pragmatic centrist, who's succeeded by a more ideological leader who spends like a drunken sailor. The old right wing BC party finally collapses in on itself, and a new right wing party rapidly grows to replace it. However, the leader who started the rise gets replaced by somebody else. In the '90s, the NDP premiers were Mike Harcourt and Glen Clark. The old right wing party was Social Credit, and the new one was the BC Liberals. Gordon Wilson took the Liberals to opposition status, but was replaced by Gordon Campbell who eventually took them on to form government.
What's different this time is that there's an incipient civil war on the political right between populists and the older establishment conservatives. The populists have the energy, but they're politically toxic to a majority of the voting public, especially voters in the Lower Mainland who end up holding the balance of power in elections. The right quickly shifted to the BC Conservatives as the vehicle to defeat the NDP in the last election, but it's pretty hard to figure out what else they share in common.
George Constanza has a Party!!!!