Dooga Aetrus Blackrazor
13th January 2006, 23:27
As I have become increasingly more radical, I find myself disagreeing with my friends on political issues more. For instance, they disagree with revolutionary means as getting things done. As I first posted here, I was hestitant towards the idea of a revolution; however, I now see it as a viable method of achieving communism, or, at the very least, political protest must be done to get a legitimate election system in Canada.
Particularly, one of my friends and I had a disagreement on the upcoming election in Canada. He said, until I convinced him otherwise (or he pretended to agree to avoid argument), that the conservative party is better than the NDP. He said the NDP's socialist economic policies in the past failed, and they won't work. I countered his argument explaining that people used to say "blacks have always been slaves so they will never be free".
After seeing Steven Harper in person, he has became less opposed to conservative ideas, although he disagrees with them. He calls this being open minded, but I disagree. I say there is a difference between being open minded and being illogical. I explained that some people are open minded; however, it doesn't take them long to discover whether a belief set is illogical. For instance, I didn't just say, oh "conservatism sucks", but I looked it over critically and came to that conclusion. Why? Because it was an easy one to make.
Overall, where do we draw the line? I am finding it particularly frustration, as of lately, to debate people politically. They are so ingrained with capitalist propaganda and lack the ability to think quickly. It's getting annoying.
Where do we draw the line between respecting alternative ideologies and dismissing something as garbage?
Furthermore, I would like to convince my friend not to vote liberal in the next election. He believes voting strategically at least makes his vote count. After all, the liberal party is better than the conservative party (though not by a lot). Although I was recently contemplating strategic voting, I have changed my mind, but I still can't convince others to rebel against our corrupt electoral system.
I realize this is more of a rant, but I am sure some of the brilliant leftists here will have some sort of response.
Particularly, one of my friends and I had a disagreement on the upcoming election in Canada. He said, until I convinced him otherwise (or he pretended to agree to avoid argument), that the conservative party is better than the NDP. He said the NDP's socialist economic policies in the past failed, and they won't work. I countered his argument explaining that people used to say "blacks have always been slaves so they will never be free".
After seeing Steven Harper in person, he has became less opposed to conservative ideas, although he disagrees with them. He calls this being open minded, but I disagree. I say there is a difference between being open minded and being illogical. I explained that some people are open minded; however, it doesn't take them long to discover whether a belief set is illogical. For instance, I didn't just say, oh "conservatism sucks", but I looked it over critically and came to that conclusion. Why? Because it was an easy one to make.
Overall, where do we draw the line? I am finding it particularly frustration, as of lately, to debate people politically. They are so ingrained with capitalist propaganda and lack the ability to think quickly. It's getting annoying.
Where do we draw the line between respecting alternative ideologies and dismissing something as garbage?
Furthermore, I would like to convince my friend not to vote liberal in the next election. He believes voting strategically at least makes his vote count. After all, the liberal party is better than the conservative party (though not by a lot). Although I was recently contemplating strategic voting, I have changed my mind, but I still can't convince others to rebel against our corrupt electoral system.
I realize this is more of a rant, but I am sure some of the brilliant leftists here will have some sort of response.