Comments on: Post-partisan politics? http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/12/02/post-partisan-politics/ Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ian http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/12/02/post-partisan-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-39169 Ian Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:24:56 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/12/02/post-partisan-politics/#comment-39169 “…for people who think that having opinions is a bad thing.” I completely disagree. I think it’s more about basing opinions on reality, evidence and outcomes. It’s more about challenging opinions then making them sacred and immutable.

I think there’s an actual trend to put power in the hands of people – whereas apparatuses like the federal Liberals are very top-down authoritarian regimes where an elite few have a lot of influence and the grassroots are ignored.

]]> By: Brendan Taylor http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/12/02/post-partisan-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-39168 Brendan Taylor Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:14:10 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/2010/12/02/post-partisan-politics/#comment-39168 I thought a lot about this after attending a ChangeCamp in Edmonton last year, but I never wrote on it because the subject made me too angry. Now that I’ve had time to cool down…

When people talk about non-partisan politics, they’re talking about a Platonic ideal. “Non-partisan” “politics” that actually exist are neither of things in the name; there is an ideology, and the ideology is timid.

It’s just the same tepid liberalism we’ve seen for decades. Even worse, it’s liberalsm for people who think that having opinions is a bad thing. Even worse, it’s liberalism with a built-in excuse for making concessions to the right.

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