I have a question for everyone.
Would you consider voting for this man if he was Canadian and running for prime minister? Give a little reason why you would or wouldn't vote for him bellow.
He had been something of a bohemian in his youth, and always regarded young people and their idealism as the key to progress and the overcoming of outmoded prejudices. And he was widely admired by the young people of his country, many of whom belonged to organizations devoted to practicing and propagating his teachings. He has had a lifelong passion for music, art, and architecture, and is even something of a painter. He rejects what he regards as petty bourgeois moral hang-ups, and he and his girlfriend have "lived together" for years. He counted a number of homosexuals as friends and collaborators, and took the view that a man's personal morals were none of his business. He was ahead of his time where a number of contemporary progressive causes are concerned: he disliked smoking, regarding it as a serious danger to public health, and took steps to combat it; he is a vegetarian and animal lover; he has helped to enact tough gun control laws; and he advocated euthanasia for the incurably ill.
He champions the rights of workers, regards a capitalist society as brutal and unjust, and seeks a third way between communism and the free market. In this regard, he and his associates greatly admire the strong steps taken by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to take large-scale economic decision-making out of private hands and put it into those of government planning agencies. His aim was is institute a brand of socialism that avoids the inefficiencies that plagued the Soviet variety. He deplored the selfish individualism he took to be endemic to modern Western society, and wants to replace it with an ethic of self-sacrifice: "As Christ proclaimed 'love one another'," he said, "so our call -- 'people's community,' 'public need before private greed,' 'communally-minded social consciousness' -- rings out.! This call will echo throughout the world!"
The reference to Christ notwithstanding, he is not personally a Christian, regarding the Catholicism he was baptized into as an irrational superstition. In fact he admires Islam more than Christianity, and he and his policies were highly respected by many Muslims. He and his associates have a special distaste for the Catholic Church and, given a choice, preferred modern liberalized Protestantism, taking the view that the best form of Christianity would be one that forsook the traditional other-worldly focus on personal salvation and accommodated itself to the requirements of a program for social justice to be implemented by the state. He also considers the possibility that Christianity might eventually have to be abandoned altogether in favor of a return to paganism, a worldview his supporters see as more humane and truer to the heritage of their people. For he and his associates believe strongly that a people's ethnic and racial heritage was what mattered most. Some endorse a kind of cultural relativism according to which, what is true or false and right or wrong, in some sense, depends on one's ethnic worldview, and especially on what best promotes the well-being of one's ethnic group.
Would you consider voting for this man if he was Canadian and running for prime minister? Give a little reason why you would or wouldn't vote for him bellow.
He had been something of a bohemian in his youth, and always regarded young people and their idealism as the key to progress and the overcoming of outmoded prejudices. And he was widely admired by the young people of his country, many of whom belonged to organizations devoted to practicing and propagating his teachings. He has had a lifelong passion for music, art, and architecture, and is even something of a painter. He rejects what he regards as petty bourgeois moral hang-ups, and he and his girlfriend have "lived together" for years. He counted a number of homosexuals as friends and collaborators, and took the view that a man's personal morals were none of his business. He was ahead of his time where a number of contemporary progressive causes are concerned: he disliked smoking, regarding it as a serious danger to public health, and took steps to combat it; he is a vegetarian and animal lover; he has helped to enact tough gun control laws; and he advocated euthanasia for the incurably ill.
He champions the rights of workers, regards a capitalist society as brutal and unjust, and seeks a third way between communism and the free market. In this regard, he and his associates greatly admire the strong steps taken by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to take large-scale economic decision-making out of private hands and put it into those of government planning agencies. His aim was is institute a brand of socialism that avoids the inefficiencies that plagued the Soviet variety. He deplored the selfish individualism he took to be endemic to modern Western society, and wants to replace it with an ethic of self-sacrifice: "As Christ proclaimed 'love one another'," he said, "so our call -- 'people's community,' 'public need before private greed,' 'communally-minded social consciousness' -- rings out.! This call will echo throughout the world!"
The reference to Christ notwithstanding, he is not personally a Christian, regarding the Catholicism he was baptized into as an irrational superstition. In fact he admires Islam more than Christianity, and he and his policies were highly respected by many Muslims. He and his associates have a special distaste for the Catholic Church and, given a choice, preferred modern liberalized Protestantism, taking the view that the best form of Christianity would be one that forsook the traditional other-worldly focus on personal salvation and accommodated itself to the requirements of a program for social justice to be implemented by the state. He also considers the possibility that Christianity might eventually have to be abandoned altogether in favor of a return to paganism, a worldview his supporters see as more humane and truer to the heritage of their people. For he and his associates believe strongly that a people's ethnic and racial heritage was what mattered most. Some endorse a kind of cultural relativism according to which, what is true or false and right or wrong, in some sense, depends on one's ethnic worldview, and especially on what best promotes the well-being of one's ethnic group.
