Poilievre's Neoliberal Chameleon Politics 2025

Chameleon Conservatives are so busy changing colors they don't know who they are or where they are going.

These are very trying times for voters everywhere, as we witness the chameleonization of politics. Politicians change colors before, during, and after elections— anytime they feel the need to during their four-year terms. They are not shy about doing so. We can’t tell if they are blushing, embarrassed, or simply putting out more colors to camouflage their deceits. They have become the masters of the bait and switch.

Politicians are very adept at changing colors, and not so concerned about the consequences of their decisions and how they reverberate through time. They live for the power, privilege, and pomp of the moment, where due deliberation, consensus, and integrity are disposable items for the fast flush.

As newly elected leader in1983 Brian Mulroney assured Canadians he would have nothing to do with a free trade agreement with the US, “Free trade was decided on in an election in1911. It affects Canadian sovereignty and we will have none of it, not during leadership campaigns or at any other time”…. He later asserted in the Globe and Mail, “This country could not survive with a policy of unfettered free trade”. He was, many years later, affirming what US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said in 1957— “ get control of a country’s economy and you own it” This is a corner stone of US foreign policy to this day. Free trade agreements are one way of doing this, wars and brinkmanship another— it was Dulles who coined the term brinkmanship…one of his favorite intimidations.

The 1988 election was a turning point for Canada as Mulroney betrayed the country and brought in free trade. In the spring of 1993 polls showed Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative Party(PCP) was headed for a drubbing in the coming fall election. He resigned and left Kim Campbell to take the hit and won only two seats— where in1984 he won with the most seats ever taken. Canadians had taken their revenge for Mulroney’s betrayal.

He also brought in Thatcher/ Reagan neoliberalism. Forty years later neoliberalism has devastated Western countries including the USA where it emanated from. It is a subject nobody wants to talk about. Poilievre has been a doctrinaire neoliberal since his teen age years. It is a facile obsession he clings to like a “Linus blanket”.

The conservative vote was now split between the PCP, and the Reform party, later to become the Alliance, The two parties “merged” in 2003. Rather than rebuild the PCP their leader Peter MacKay handed his party over to Harper as the leader. The merger was no such thing; but really a hostile take over by the ultra right.

The new party was known as the Conservative Party of Canada(CPC), with progressive deleted. The party took a hard turn to the right where progressive conservatives and Red Tories were not welcome. The CPC became an affiliate of the US Republican party. A uniquely Canadian brand of conservatism was put to rest.

The CPC under Harper was in power from 2006 to 2015. Harper like Mulroney before him did serious damage to Canada’s sovereignty. Justin Trudeau made his grand entrance with a clear majority at least in part thanks to public animosity directed at Harper’s conservatives.

Now Poilievre is the man of the hour and he is determined to paint the country a very deep blue. Suddenly he is the working man’s best friend, the pseudo-socialist, the fake populist taking pot shots at wealthy corporations while pocketing their cash. Like Trudeau he is a bad actor and his intentions are all too transparent.

The hard ass conservatives took their hard turn to the right, scared the hell out of Canadians, rendering the Liberals the default party. As Harper’s one time “pit bull” the only way Poilievre can run for office now is as pseudo-socialist and fake populist.

He has stolen Jagmeet Singh’s thunder, but Singh does not care as he has become a neoliberal groupie.

First there was Mulroney, then Harper and now poor Pierre desperately playing the game as the contorted chameleon doing the good old bait and switch.

If Poilievre loses this election he will be the fourth consecutive CPC leader to do so.

It is though even more complicated. All the parties are really united under the neoliberal banner but that remains a well kept secret out of bounds for public debate.

The real story none of the politicians or prestitutes want to talk about is neoliberalism as the ideology assigned to vacuum up the wealth of nations, creating poverty while shutting down governments. The chameleons play on….

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