{"id":32471,"date":"2015-08-22T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32471"},"modified":"2015-08-20T22:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T02:13:38","slug":"thomas-mulcair-cracks-down-on-dissent-within-the-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/22\/thomas-mulcair-cracks-down-on-dissent-within-the-ndp\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Mulcair cracks down on dissent within the NDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2015\/08\/the-dictatorship-of-tom.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Anderson<\/a> explains why it&#8217;s silly to blame Tom Mulcair for suppressing even minor deviations from the party&#8217;s main election message, which he calls the &#8220;iron fist in the orange velvet glove&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What exactly did Bruce Hyer think he signed up for? He joined a political party not a social club. Perhaps he has no interest in sitting in cabinet but most of the NDP front bench does. That&#8217;s why they entered politics, it&#8217;s why they fight tooth and nail to win campaigns and why they elected Tom Mulcair leader, instead of an actual socialist. When you&#8217;ve joined a pack of jackals it&#8217;s a touch absurd to complain about the dining arrangements. <\/p>\n<p>Politics is not about truth, justice or your particular understanding of the Canadian way. It&#8217;s about power. It has always been and always will be about power. Politics is answering the question of how the brute force of the state is to be imposed upon a country. Or to put it another way: What is to be done and who is to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the vapid speeches and focused group bromides all of it, down to the last Tweet and regulatory sub-clause, rests on the power of the gun. Politics is about deciding who controls the guns. In that stark light of day Mr Hyer doesn&#8217;t look like an idealist, instead he looks like a personality type quite common in the NDP: A fool on stilts. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Anderson explains why it&#8217;s silly to blame Tom Mulcair for suppressing even minor deviations from the party&#8217;s main election message, which he calls the &#8220;iron fist in the orange velvet glove&#8221;: What exactly did Bruce Hyer think he signed up for? He joined a political party not a social club. Perhaps he has no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[188,798,802],"class_list":["post-32471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-ndp","tag-thomasmulcair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8rJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32472,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions\/32472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}