Broken windows, and the undermining of democracy by Harper

Stephen Harper is a serial offender in undermining democracy. Giving him a majority government would be like handing a truck of gasoline to a pyromaniac.

In an article entitled "Broken Windows" in The Atlantic in 1982, James Q. Wilson and George Kelling argued that leaving broken windows alone will presage further problems. Soon, all remaining windows will be broken because an unrepaired window signals that no one cares about property dama...

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