"Too Hedonistic"

Paul Weyrich, arch-conservative voice coming out of the Free Congress Foundation, has some things to say about the results of the recent election in Canada:

"The people of Canada have become so liberal and hedonistic that the public ethic in the country immediately could not be reversed," Weyrich says in an email analysis to allies.

"It will take time. But with leadership it well may be possible to change the public ethic."

The culturally conservative organization compared Harper's victory in Canada to the election of Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, an extreme right-wing, pro-life legislator, to the position of governor of Massachusetts, a liberal state which has legalized gay marriage.

Weyrich did not return phone calls to expand on his analysis. It was posted on the Free Congress Foundation website and, like a pre-election missive, was emailed to Canadian journalists in Washington by a liberal organization that has battled Weyrich's group on Supreme Court nomination fights here.

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"My pessimistic friend said that inasmuch as Harper's is a minority government, Harper could do almost nothing to encourage the country to adopt a more reasonable view of the United States and to correct some premises of Cultural Marxism, which Canadians have espoused, such as same-sex marriage and abortion-on-demand," he wrote.

The solution, he said, would be for Harper to pack the Canadian courts with conservatives.

In other words- the Canadian culture, too "hedonistic" for redemption, must be forced into alignment with proper values and methods.

It is interesting that the method he's espousing is to flex legal muscle and force culture into alignment by stacking control of the courts.

The only reason I bring Weyrich up at this point in time, in terms how American liberals can view the situation, is that these comments are useful in understanding what has happened with American culture- to an extent. Rather than only stocking the courts with ideologues [though, the upcoming vote on Alito is certainly evidence of that], conservatives in America began this process by infiltrating media outlets and well-funded groups- primarily evangelical christian organizations. They started doing this years ago- funding, investing, and building these connections in order to force culture into a new direction- away from "hedonism" and into percieved proper moral codes.

Great. It's nice when the perfect democratic model does everything it can to restrict your ability toward any choice. Tons of fun. Good luck, friends in the north...