see, this is the kind of thing that you simply don't get from corporate media due to a combination of manipulation and arrogance - but that the internet has made widely available to pretty much everybody. and, it's pretty devastating. not just for harper, but for his entire mode of economic thinking and anybody else willing to play in that sandbox. even ten years ago, you'd have to go to the library to get this, or sort for it through obscure blogs that you're only going to get to via insider link trading. so, there's really no mystery in the electorate's - and specifically educated electorate's - sudden rejection of neoliberalism and embrace of the economic left. it's just a question of being informed, in a new reality where being informed is much easier than it used to be.

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