The Singular Face Of Megalomania
It has been talked about a lot the past couple of years. Canadians, supportive or not, cannot seem to pinpoint what it is about Stephen Harper that makes them distrust him, that seems cold, unapproachable… wrong. And then, mixed up with this confusion, is the question about whether or not his intentions as Prime Minister of Canada are good. This article is an attempt to explore some plausible reasons why Canadians feel this way about their PM, while trying to avoid incurring the SLAPP-suit from Harper's over-zealous litigation team that so many others have been presented with when criticizing our very sensitive 'leader'.
Over the years here at the Metaball, I have made no secret of my dislike for Stephen Harper. Originally it was based on the same basic intuition all Canadians feel when staring at those glassy, watery eyes; eyes that only show a glint of real emotion when they're blazing in delight over the taunting or jeering or destruction of someone else, or accidentally revealing an astoundingly low self-esteem and less surprisingly high sense of paranoia. It was in reaction to the early indications that his right-wing, ultra-conservative agenda is not good for all Canadians yet is slowly but surely going to be forced upon us anyway if he has anything to do with it, which unfortunately at this moment in history, he does. It was due also to the sense of that hidden agenda that almost all Canadians know with every ounce of intuition is there, though they just can't put their finger on it.
Michael Ignatieff, the MP and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party whose riding is Etobicoke-Lakeshore, the same riding where Stephen Harper attended and graduated high school, says there is no secret agenda. He says that Harper has made it perfectly clear what he wants to do, which is to first completely and utterly destroy the Liberal Party and second to move the centre of Canadian politics ten degrees to the right until what made this country great is no longer recognizable. With all due respect to the brilliant mind of Mr. Ignatieff (one that casts a pallor over Harper's own eager but inferior intellect, despite his attempts to propagandize himself as a 'genius'), I think there is a little (though very little) more to it than Harper's obvious and childish hate-on for all things Liberal, though I'm sad to say it's not any less obvious or childish.
Let's start with the really nasty stuff, though, the stuff that conjures up comparisons to Hitler or Stalin; let's talk about a damaged psychology, a malevolent personality disorder, and lessons that we, the discerning public who are ultimately affected by these characters, should have already learned.
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Stephen Harper has, in an unprecedented act, reportedly removed all images of any other Canadian political leader from the PMO offices as well as from the government lounge of the House of Commons, and replaced them with images of himself. Even the picture of the Queen was removed and replaced with a picture of Stephen Harper and the Queen. Despite the best efforts of Harper's many biographers to paint him as some sort of "reluctant leader", Stephen Harper cannot cover up these megalomaniacal tendencies: the temptation is too great. He is too great.
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