Protect your peace. Protect your peace. Protect your peace.
I've been thinking about this for a while, how denigrated working for the government has always been, even in this ludicrously large cold rock of a country with its population of sunny California, as if the jobs government employees do are somehow less worthwhile than other jobs.
Government employees themselves often share in the put downs.
I've only ever been an office temp, but a steadily working one, and I've had a lot of jobs, mostly in the government, but outside it, too. There's no difference in any of it from my perspective, although government employees do all swear an oath to service in the interests of the public.
All my life Conservative politicians, and their supporters, many of them in the business world of private profit, have referred to the government and the people who work for it as something we'd be better off without.
Well, what's happening south of the border should be their wildest wet dream come true, then, shouldn't it, employees of the government being fired en masse, entire departments axed, private business operators put in charge instead.
It will result in a massive transfer of public wealth to a handful of oligarchs, but I guess it begs the question: What kind of democracy makes it possible for individual citizens to become billionaires anyway?
But it's all been a big lie, the myth of rugged individualism south of the border, collective welfare on our side of it. Some 77 million Americans - the population of MAGA voters - are dependent on social security. Now the Orange Goon's gangster regime will steal it out from under them.
What are they going to do? Well, according to the CBC Ottawa interviews with middle-class residents in border towns that depend on Canadians for survival, most of them think it will work out great. The Orange Goon is a businessman, you see, and knows what he's doing.
Well yeah, he and his have shorted the market and will be richer'n God.
We have these myths here, too, the individual vs the community, the most egregious purveyor of which is Stephen Harper, who grew up in my time - we're the same age - with all the benefits of universal healthcare and public education, secured for us by the so-called Greatest Generation he pretends to honour, his first job handed to him by his oil company executive Daddy. His groomed protege, Pierre Poilievre, has only ever known a time of peace, order and good government, too, his only employment being as a Member of Parliament.
A tail end Boomer and a Millennial who had all the benefits of the Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments that made our country so much better than it had been for previous generations, most notably female citizens, and so much better than the richest country in the world whose diabetic citizens are left to die if they can't afford insulin.
Pierre Poilievre is an odious little shit and only a party as morally warped as Big Daddy Stephen Harper's Conservatives would elect him leader.
Canadians are idiots deserving of the great fall we will experience if he's elected Prime Minister.
I read an article the other day about the "Real America", the one steeped in Confederate politics. We can wring our hands on their behalf but this is what they want, a return to a more sexist and racist time, a rollback of civil and human rights, Big Daddy in charge of their lives.
Maple MAGA wants the same.
They don't care if we all go broke getting there, either, our middle-class hollowed out, fighting each other for every last dime while their gurus pontificate from their podcasts: Male = good, Female = bad.
Recently, CBC Ottawa interviewed Americans living in border towns dependent on Canadians for their economic survival. A couple of them, frustrated, knew it was all madness. But the vast majority are all in, true believers, the Orange Goon will make American great again.
They don't mean New Deal great, like in FDR's day. But they don't know what they mean, either. I doubt they even know they're in a cult, brainwashed to the gills, their leader a conman selling them out to a cabal of billionaire Peter Pans.
Speaking of, what's the point of being a billionaire if you still have to work for the man, and in the case of the billionaire Peter Pans currently on public display, have to smell his shit while thanking him every ten minutes for the favour.
We're not even a little bit real to them and yet here we are where life is good and we're free to live it as we choose, Orange Goon free. But we're not compromised up the wazoo by whatever billionaire Peter Pans get up to with trafficked children on private islands.
One wonders why they want to tear it down when it's worked out so well for them. I mean, why would they trade freedom and not having to work for the Orange Goon for fascism and indentured servitude?
Wouldn't you rather just pay taxes? I know I would. Democracy and public services for the win.
Milan Kundera wrote "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" about how hard it was for victims of Communist oppression to adapt to a life without it. I think this may be what's going on in the US, and to a lesser extent here. People are bored with freedom, or unable to handle it, and want Big Daddy to take it away and tell them what to do instead.
Just look at the billionaire Peter Pans. Grown ass men with all the money in the world and they're spending Saturday nights on call for Big Macs with the Boss at Mar-a-lago.💩
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