Ford is a Progressive Conservative. The Federal Progressive Conservative party ended in 1993, and replaced by Western Canadian Conservatism exemplified by the Reform Party. Ford is a politician who wants to win elections, ergo who campaigns from the middle. A "social conservative" party would never win an election. The true believers can, if they want, become an NDP of the right, and have a political party that would rather lose elections (as the Federal wing of the NDP always does) and be true to its principles, or you can be in a party that was a legitimate shot at beating the Liberals every once in a while.
Glenn: The tenets of mature individualism do not state that the "highest duty is to one's self," rather, they hold that one can maintain whatever personal creed, belief or allegiance one may so long as these things are freely chosen and not compelled upon the individual by a higher authority. This is how Tibor Machan puts it in his work on classical liberalism. If it starts to look like a worldview created by rich people to do whatever they want, might I suggest that this is because the philosophy is being framed in an inappropriate manner. Only in the communist philosophical space does the anti-thesis to your problem exist - the place where authoritarians can diminish the private property of those who happen to be wealthy at a whim. Is that where your "moral center" is?
Where is the moral center for a philosophy that pits the individual at its center? If the highest duty is to one’s self, how to you avoid a relativism?
Liberalism starts to look like a worldview created by rich people to allow them to continue to what ever they want.
Ford is a Progressive Conservative. The Federal Progressive Conservative party ended in 1993, and replaced by Western Canadian Conservatism exemplified by the Reform Party. Ford is a politician who wants to win elections, ergo who campaigns from the middle. A "social conservative" party would never win an election. The true believers can, if they want, become an NDP of the right, and have a political party that would rather lose elections (as the Federal wing of the NDP always does) and be true to its principles, or you can be in a party that was a legitimate shot at beating the Liberals every once in a while.
Ford is a disgrace to conservatism. Look at TO school boards - filled with woke radicals.
Hope for Poilievre.
Glenn: The tenets of mature individualism do not state that the "highest duty is to one's self," rather, they hold that one can maintain whatever personal creed, belief or allegiance one may so long as these things are freely chosen and not compelled upon the individual by a higher authority. This is how Tibor Machan puts it in his work on classical liberalism. If it starts to look like a worldview created by rich people to do whatever they want, might I suggest that this is because the philosophy is being framed in an inappropriate manner. Only in the communist philosophical space does the anti-thesis to your problem exist - the place where authoritarians can diminish the private property of those who happen to be wealthy at a whim. Is that where your "moral center" is?
Where is the moral center for a philosophy that pits the individual at its center? If the highest duty is to one’s self, how to you avoid a relativism?
Liberalism starts to look like a worldview created by rich people to allow them to continue to what ever they want.