Thread by @sunnshiiny

Looking at your narrative cumulatively, I’m getting concerned.

I’m not making an accusation, yet. But I’m uncomfortable with some of your terminology. Bernie Saunders & Charlie Angus are populist leaders that put their power aspirations at the forefront, before ideals & people.

https://twitter.com/grannyrevhub/status/1168295587307053056

I don’t link myself publicly to any political movement or party, including Extinction Rebellion. I’ve worked hard to build credibility and reliability. I don’t lend it out for a cause, no matter how good of a cause it is. That way, I retain control of my narrative.

I don’t compromise my integrity. I don’t lend support to many individuals. Generally, I stick with policy.

Publicly, the only two individuals I’ve supported outright are Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau.

Everyone else, including those two, I’ve heaped plenty of criticism upon.

Politicians, being human beings, are prone to make mistakes. Constructively criticizing them is neither negative nor defamatory. It creates a learning opportunity for the politician to self examine their purpose and intent.

But many in politics have malevolent intent.

Those are who I focus my time upon. The public is being robbed of information regarding the intent of malign political forces. In Canada especially, and globally. Because the 4th estate has been compromised.

My comment in the embedded thread is a criticism and admonishment of Charlie Angus and the leadership in both GPC & NDP who are employing populist rhetoric to gain in popularity.

They have bought into smear tactics and negative campaigning. They are not “the real deal.”

They are the toxic poison destroying democracy. Using lies and deceit to undermine a party and leader because they want their own kick at the can.

They’ve put their own personal ambitions ahead of national security, human rights, climate action and the unity of Canada.

Much of what I document is aimed at the far right. Offering facts, interpretation of coded narratives and exposing truths about their agenda.

There is so much to expose, I’ve hardly given time to the malevolence on the left side of the political spectrum.

It’s time to amend it.

Angus, Ashton & Mulcair are all Layton wannabes.

Jack Layton is remembered fondly by many. Their perception manipulated by a complicit media supporting the far right.

Layton is the progressive who partnered with CPC & Harper to bring down the Liberal Party in 2005.

It’s that one decision by Layton that set Harper up for a 10 year opportunity to dismantle the legal system that protects human rights, health & safety and the environment we live in. One foolish man who thought he could control Harper.

Forgive me of thinking ill of the dead, but I’m not proud of that moment in time. It allowed a megalomaniac to set loose on a strong democracy and deliver a fatal disease. Democracy is in its death throes in Canada, and the globe, because of people like Harper.

The NDP & GPC leadership are trying to replicate Layton’s populist appeal. None of them share the charisma and appeal Layton had. They won’t succeed. But they have demoralized a nation with their constant negative rhetoric focussed solely on LPC & Trudeau.

Either they don’t understand what they’ve done ( negating any claim to lead the nation or a party) or they know and put their aspirations for themselves and their party ahead of the needs of the Canadian public. None seem stupid or ignorant, so I’m leaning towards the latter.

Meaning, they are ALL making a conscious choice to bring down a PROGRESSIVE government to further the political goals of themselves, their party, AND to further the agenda of the Conservatives. Giving Scheer a good chance at winning a majority.

I’m relatively old and come from where progressive policy originated: the Western Canadian victims of the Great Depression. I remember what progressive policy is and I know how politicians with integrity behave, because my predecessors helped shape what it looks like.

It certainly does not include smearing a fellow progressive. Politics is a dirty game, but the progressives brought integrity to the forefront by shining a light on the inadequate policies of Ottawa to address the Depression, not by smearing the leaders of opposition parties.

Populism is a tool.

As with any tool, it is those who wield it that shape the benevolence or malevolence it imparts.

A hammer is a tool. It can be used to build a home for low income families or used to murder. Same hammer; the intent of who wields it, very different.

The NDP & GPC leadership are using malevolent intent in their use of populism in their rhetoric. And encouraging their supporters to follow suit.

I neither appreciate nor support that use.

So do NOT link me with the far left and moderate right centrists aiming to gain support for their particular bent on Liberalist ideology.

I neither support them nor their cause.

I do support progressive ideology. I prefer moderation, which technically means I’m a centrist. But I don’t object to far left ideals, I’m just too much of a sceptic to rush headlong and fancy free into change. Some might call me slightly conservative.

So I could vote for any of the three progressive political parties and feel quite comfortable with the policy choices. But I’m voting Liberal, because my riding was gerrymandered by combining urban & rural votes. Handing an automatic win to Cons. Otherwise it would be Liberal.

Strategic voting means voting for the candidate that has the best opportunity to deny CPC a seat in Parliament, in your particular riding. Any candidate from a progressive party. But the one who has the best chance of unseating CPC.

That’s what I support. Not any particular candidate in my riding or any other riding in the 338 across Canada.

I support Human Rights & Freedoms, Feminism, LGBTQ, responsible & responsive immigration, a unified Canada, and democracy (which needs to be rebuilt). Not demagogues.