 The Christian Heritage Party came together originally in opposition to the decriminalization, liberalization and promotion of abortion in Canada. We thought, and continue to think, the practice is immoral, inhuman and a violation of God’s law.
We soon found other issues to oppose, including the promotion of homosexuality, the removal of Christianity from our schools, the encouragement of single-parent families, and the restriction of parents’ right to discipline their children.
Most of us took a while to understand the key factor generating change was the Charter of Rights and Freedoms introduced by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau when he repatriated the Constitution in 1982. That document threw out Parliamentary supremacy and allowed special interests to attack the Judeo-Christian foundation of Canadian society in the courts.
What we did not realize then was that a coherent philosophy lay behind what Trudeau called ‘A Just Society’ and that each issue we opposed was part of it.
A few years ago, a report from the Free Congress Foundation—a US conservative think-tank—entitled “Political Correctness: a Short History of an Ideology”[1] identified that philosophy as Cultural Marxism as promoted by the Institute for Social Research (Insitut für Sozialforschung) which originated in Frankfurt, Germany and later moved to the United States.
The most important work by the Institute was a book called The Authoritarian Personality[2] which argued that wars are caused by male-dominated societies. It claimed:
“that the presence in a society of Christianity, capitalism, and the patriarchal-authoritarian family created a character prone to racial prejudice and German fascism”—that is, everything Western is necessarily prejudiced. The solution according to the Frankfurt academics was that “the patriarchal social structure would be replaced with matriarchy; the belief that men and women are different and properly have different roles would be replaced with androgyny; and the belief that heterosexuality is normal would be replaced with the belief that homosexuality is ‘normal’.”
The idea, then, is the complete eradication of Western civilization to be replaced with something new. That something new is nothing less than “a society of radical egalitarianism enforced by the power of the state.”
Reading that last sentence creates an eerie echo for Canadians because this is exactly what the Canadian Human Rights Act and its enforcement agencies—the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Tribunal—were set up to do. Indeed, if you combine the attacks on Parliamentary law using Charter challenges with the attacks on the Common law using the CHRC, you get both a top-down and bottom-up assault on Canada’s Judeo-Christian beliefs exactly as the Frankfurt school suggested.
Where then would Trudeau have got the ideas he so neatly repackaged? The answer is from a well-known Marxist academic, Harold Laski[3], who Trudeau studied under at the London School of Economics in 1947. In effect, everything we have come to know, and oppose, about modern Canada is straight Cultural Marxism from the Frankfurt school.
The one advantage this knowledge provides is a way to attack current and past Liberal and Conservative party policies and plans. Here are Cultural Marxist ideas in bold with the questions they raise.
- Internationalism opposes national sovereignty. We can ask candidates if they believe Canadian laws should override International conventions.
- Public day care is state rearing and indoctrination of children. We can ask candidates if they think the state should raise, and mold, our children.
- Anti-firearms laws are designed to secure an authoritarian state. We can ask candidates if they think Canadians should follow the example of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in banning the private ownership of firearms.
- Environmentalism is a pagan religion. We can ask candidates if they think Canadians should worship Gaia, like the ancient Greeks or the National Socialists.
- Judge-Made law is the key ingredient in a totalitarian state. We can ask candidates if they think Parliament or the Supreme Court should be the supreme law making authority in Canada.
- Mass immigration is designed to destroy Canadian culture. We can ask candidates if they believe Canada has an obligation to provide a home for millions of economic migrants even if that changes Canadian culture forever.
As in all things, knowledge is power. If we study and understand the playbook used by the mainline parties, and especially the Liberal party, we can match and resist every argument used against us.
If we can educate the Canadian public to the evil purpose we oppose, we can truly do God’s work on earth.
[1] http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2005/may/05051909
[2] [url=http://www.amazon.com/Authoritarian-Personality-Studies-Prejudice/dp/0393311120/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295465251&sr=8-1]http://www.amazon.com/Authoritarian-Personality-Studies-Prejudice/dp/0393311120/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295465251&sr=8-1[/url]
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Laski |
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