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Brown-John: Slogans are OK in politics, but where’s the policy beef?
Politics tamfitronics Published Nov 01, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute readConservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses his party's caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 15 2024. Photo by Bryan Passifiume /Postmedia NewsBy: Lloyd Brown-JohnIn the 1958 federal election, John Diefenbaker won the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian history. He defeated Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Pearson.‘Dief’ tapped into populist discontent and rode to victory on a simple slogan — ‘Follow John.’Slogans are the bread and margarine of political parties and their promoters. The word ‘slogan’ may have originated in Gaelic ‘slaugh-ghairm’ — a battle cry. Former New York Times columnist William Safire defined slogan as “a catch phrase … to thrill, exhort and inspire … (with) the intent of sparking emotions and open the door to persuasion.”THIS CONTENT IS...
Brown-John: Trudeau Liberals following same path as Harper Conservatives
Politics tamfitronics Published Sep 20, 2024 • 3 minute readPrime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 in Ottawa. Photo by Adrian Wyld /The Canadian PressBy: Lloyd Brown-JohnSometimes the rhetoric of Canadian politics reminds me of our dog. Tip was his name.With ease, this German shepard could be convinced to chase his own tail in circles. I’ve thought about my old canine friend as I reflect on the last 20 years of Canadian politics.As Pierre Poilievre presses the other opposition leaders to support his Conservatives in a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons to bring down Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, it might prove useful to remember that Paul Martin’s Liberal government fell on such a confidence vote in late 2005. Just 19 years ago...
Brown-John: Colonel Talbot — SW Ontario’s first autocratic despot
Politics tamfitronics Published Apr 26, 2024 • Final as a lot as this point 13 hours up to now • 3 minute readLengthy sooner than autocrats cherish Russian President Vladimir Putin, upright, and North Korea's chief Kim Jong Un had been shown shaking palms on Sept. 13, 2023, the local space had Colonel Thomas Talbot, who brought his autocratic dispositions to the European settling of Southwestern Ontario. Photo by VLADIMIR SMIRNOV /POOL/AFP by project of Getty ImagesBy: Lloyd Brown-JohnIn each politics and organizational principle the exercise of vitality is foremost.Article protest materialEnergy would be exercised with consent, thru consensus constructing, thru force of will and even thru easy coercion or force.Now we have most modern examples of vitality being exercised with force, including Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Kim Jong Un’s North Korea and Xi Jinping’s China. There...
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