Example: I was trying to read Adam Gopnik's latest "A Thousand Small Sanities" (The Moral Adventure of Liberalism) but was having trouble taking it in, in spite of an enthusiastic recommendation by My Blond Companion. Then a hold came in at the liberry for Lori Gottlieb's "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" so I put Gopnik aside to read Gottlieb, whose 412 pages I put away in two sittings. Then I re-started Gopnik and lo and behold it's registering just fine.
I'm glad because I'm the Liberal both the Left and the Right love to hate these days, a neo-Liberal to the Left (well, sorry, comrades, but we've gotta make room for people who just wanna have fun and make lotsa money), a Commie to the Right (yeah, kinda, some days, but I like owning property and so do my friends on the Left, so hypocrites much, comrades?), and I want to better understand and defend why I hold to the politics I do, because I'm not really a middle of the road person otherwise.
Compromise is a hard one for me. Conservatives are stupid and mean. New Democrats are holier'n thou finger pointers who act as if making six figures and owning million dollar piles is barely scraping by in this regulated capitalist hellscape known as Canada.
I can say that because My Blond Companion and I are Plucky Paupers who together barely make five figures. So there. We were also born into the middle-class so we don't spend our days whining about our financial misfortune because we pretty much live like Rockefellers, thank you for asking.
No idea why double income families with their two car garage piles in suburban Ottawa and annual family vacations to Disneyland are having trouble making ends meet, but I see them on CBC news quite frequently, boohooing about how hard it is, the Canadian dream of taking up ever more space getting harder and harder to attain.
All this to say I believe now is the time I need to let my Liberal freak flag fly. The Right, which in Canada is Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party every bit as much as in the US it's Donald Trump's Republicans, is only too happy to employ violence for the purpose of intimidating Liberals into not expressing our support for Liberal politicians, so it's imperative we do so anyway.
Just ignore the tsk tsking of the Left for your moral failure. It's always something with the Left. Even if/when the NDP wins they'll be accused of governing as Liberals because they can't re-make the country in their socialist image anymore than Stephen Harper could re-make it in his fascist one. Believe me. Just suggest introducing wage parity at the ONDP (Queen's Park - '80s) and you'd think I'd suggested - as a unit member did once at a meeting - not going on strike for more pay when we were already better compensated than both OPCP and OLP staffers put together.
Apoplexy all 'round. I know I'm being mean but I'm tired of the bullshit. I worked in the belly of the beast.
Bob Rae is right.
Also, they weren't allowed to say it out loud but every teacher I talked to (except for the lone male) at my kids' elementary school liked the Social Contract.
By the way, not a single public servant of my acquaintance supported the latest strike, although they did their union duty, anyway. And the ones who did, I can tell you with absolute certainty, did so because they wanted to work from home, a right the union didn't want them to have any more than the government did.
My last job in government was near the bottom of the pay scale and anybody who thinks public servants aren't paid enough is full of it. It was a difficult job, the most challenging I've ever had, and as I argued at the time, under-classified, but for an entry level position it was absolutely well-compensated, as it should have been.
So signs, signs, and more signs people. Great big Liberal red signs. And Pride flags. Put 'em up. And make sure your Pride flag includes all the new colours because that's where us Liberals are at, in direct opposition to the Christo-Fascists driving the Conservative bus these days.
The polls, self-selecting as they are, indicate the irredeemably odious Pierre Poilievre will be elected Prime Minister. He's a phoney, living a lie, as is well known within the small town Ottawa public service, but he's at one with the Sovereign Citizen movement, too, and isn't hiding it even a bit. So if the polls are correct, well, we're not even close to being the country most of us grew up believing ourselves to be.
No Canadian, at this point, should be voting Conservative. That's just a fact. There are reasons Poilievre can't get a security clearance and it's deliberate blindness to pretend he just doesn't want one.
He has gone out of his way, time and time again, to show his allegiance to the most racist and misogynistic elements of our society. Neo-nazis are his people. I witnessed the Freedom Convoy. Mercenaries in the employ of Neo-nazi insurrectionists (convoy leaders actually made the rounds with envelopes of cash). Poilievre not only sat with them, he recruited them, signed them up, later marching in solidarity with its leaders, his handler of the day, Trump's man Paul Alexander, directly behind him the entire time.
He will, without a doubt, weaponize his Neo-nazi supporters against us once he's Prime Minister. He's not faking being one of them. He's all in. As I've pointed out a million and one times, he sat with the Freedom Convoy, mercenaries for Neo-nazi insurrectionists, while they tormented and harassed citizens living and working in downtown Ottawa.
He sicced Diagolon Accelerationists on a young female reporter for Global News just for asking about his publicly witnessed ties to them. They harassed her and her family right down to rape and death threats.
He declared himself our enemy, the enemy of civil society, as no politician in Canada has ever done before.
He's dangerous. Full stop. Shame on Conservatives voters. Shame, shame, shame.
The Freedom Convoy cost us millions of dollars and its victims our mental health and well-being. Poilievre could not give a shit about any of us, either, because he doesn't care about anybody or anything. Trudeau pegged it correctly the other day, Poilievre will say or do anything to win, and once he does win, he'll be working for the Sovereign Citizens he went out of his way to meet with the other day, and putting the screws to Liberals and liberal democracy.
He's a nasty little shit.
Conservative voters, by the way, secretly want this, although they'll pretend they're just voting against Trudeau when they cast a ballot for whichever local candidate is running under the Conservative Party banner.
They all - every single Conservative MP - including those phoney balonies Michael Chong and Scott Aitchison - voted against invoking the Emergency Act to end the illegal occupation by the Freedom Convoy of Centretown, Ottawa - in spite of its ongoing assault on citizens and threats of violent insurrection being bullhorned in our public streets and broadcast all over the internet.
They knew what it was. The Freedom Convoy even attacked LPC and NDP staffers on their way into work. Their own fucking colleagues. They sat in a party led by Andrew Scheer who probably voted for Donald Trump, ffs, and Candice Bergen in her MAGA hat who double-dated the insurrectionist thugs.
But there's no changing the behaviour of other people, never mind their politics, so I'm already thinking ahead to the strategies I'll need to cope with a Canadian government in league with Diagolon Accelerationists.
You should, too, is my advice. Many of us ended up needing therapy, even medication, in the wake of the Freedom Convoy's assault. It was just a glimpse of fascism and believe me it was terrifying enough. Pierre Poilievre owes them bigtime and once he's in power they will be there to collect payment.
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