Conservatives Just Have that Schizophrenic Tendency

This is not anti-Tory rant; my neighbour is a PC, he's a good guy but, well, timing. Stephen Harper, former conservative, endorsed Pierre Pollivere as new conservative party leader. Literally, the day after the endorsement, 70% of Canadians polled said they would NOT support him as Prime Minister should he win party leadership. The same week, Doug Ford, Ontario PC Premier, TOLD his cabinet members via the House Leader whom to vote for Government Speaker. Instead, everyone, opposition and government members, united and selected the current Speaker for another term. conservatives are clearly NOT united philosophically; not in terms of how they want the country's largest province governed, not in terms of how they want the country governed. Stephen Harper was an advocate of Fredrich Hayek, a German economist who won the Nobel Prize for economic theories which became the foundation of neo-liberal economics currently in vogue. The philosophy has been proven to be a spectacular failure, most obviously in Medicine, but it infected the Canadian conservative political party and caused a rift between old PC type conservatives and Stephen Harper conservatives. Pollivere of whom is one, Ford another. Neither of them has ever run a successful business nor been independently employed. Pollivere has been in government since he was 25 and prior to that worked for a conservative think tank; Ford has always worked for the family business, ultimately failing in leadership of its expansion south. Stephen Harper has also only worked for think tanks or been in government. The point being for a political philosophy that advocates the market govern everything, it has consistently been led by people only ever employed by government. You'd think that would be a sign. The Progressive Conservatives, PCs, were the forerunner of the conservative party. Whereas the best Prime Minister Canada never had was a PC Judge who believed in Women's Suffrage, current conservatives are socially conservative people whose idea of business is the current privatization of Canada's Healthcare system. The evolution of political economy included the recognition that for business to function best healthcare and education had to be the responsibility of the government; the free flow of capital does not happen with Medicine for the simple reason illness is not a choice. A Medical responsibily is not a chosen financial burden; the fact it has become a way to profit means most current economic thinkers are ideologues, not at all familiar with why supply and demand work in balance. Someone with a chronic illness is ALWAYS in need...that has become equated with demand in a free market. An ill person is not free, so the whole premise of balance cannot be achieved and it is ridiculous to act as though it can. Hence, the Ford government's attempt to privatize Healthcare follows on the Medical catastrophes the pandemic wrecked on Seniors' Long Term Care Facilities; it's not like there is an example of a successful business in privatized Healthcare. Need is constant, so money is never made. But, Ford like Harper and Pollivere is an ideologue and believes financial balance can be achieved in Medicine because he's never had to face the consequences in business of when it can't. The free choice of conservatives choosing NOT to follow Ford's government speaker choice is a forshadow of Ford's ineptitude in business. Rather than recognition there is a problem in cohesive party support, Premiere Ford has chosen to punish government caucus members via mandatory Queen's Park attendance and reduction in interational travel for their disobedience.PUNISHING people is not likely to ENCOURAGE fidelity. Ford does not know or understand the value of earning respect. It's a dividing factor between people who actually work and theorists who think they know what to do. People representing business interests do not understand business. Why Hayek was a failure, why the conservative party is.