Off the cuff remark - many progressives in Québec, whether or not they are ardent about sovereignty - are quick to attack others as opportunists. Marois was a target of David in a strong variant of the O word, which is turn-coat. (Im translating on several levels.) Legault got similar treatment from Marois during the debate when she reminded him of his ardent support for Québec independence. Everyone being allergic to the treatment, everyone but QS activists scrambling to avoid the slurs, the candidates evoke economic and employment necessities as requiring private sector stimulus - social spending cuts - PLUS austerity measures. All the electoral parties in last nights debate define responsible governance in neo-liberal language, with the exception of QS, again. Income redistribution and social investment is never positioned as more than merely a matter of reforms to an agreed-upon SYSTEM. And theres never anything radical about it. Seems to me that all the various opportunisms tagged on political rivals to the Right and the Left should be more honestly blamed on shifts in the person and partys positions regarding social-democratic or socialist solutions. Many so-called opportunists shift to or always held naive, status-quo-ante pre-Wall Street Crash forms of neo-liberalist ideology. In other words, its all still open for debate whether spending public funds to prop up speculative private expansion works to improve the well-being of the majority. Shifting spending into green technologies doesnt take the question head-on.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:51:30 +0000
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