Well, I'm in favour of disbanding ALL political parties FOREVER, and electing real people instead who can think for themselves...but that ain't gonna happen (sigh). At least not in my lifetime. I feel like a "republican" (small c type) in the early 1600's trying to convince people that the divine right of kings and bishops is not really a good form of representation... :-) (they would have burned me at the stake for suggesting something so clearly idiotic and inconceivable, I'm sure).

Political parties are equally idiotic.

Be that as it may, I doubt that this new Conservative alliance in Canada will go anywhere useful. Canada would be better off if the Reform outfit ceased to exist and we had the old PC Party back...they were a centrist outfit, like the Liberals. A radical right party is very unlikely to get far in Canada.

But it's all a joke anyway, believe me. Political parties do not represent the public, they represent themselves and their wealthier backers, who are mostly billionaires or at least multi-millionaires. That's who runs the system. You and I get to vote for their chosen surrogates, their underlings, and their puppets.

It's a fraud, designed to make us think we have a voice. Are people free if they think they are? Apparently, judging by the propaganda I hear every day from the government and media of the USA in particular.

- LH