Thread by @sunnshiiny

@AnnamiePaul is revealing that secret internal leaked letter wasn’t too far from the truth.

When autocrats are called to task for their behaviour, they come out fighting in a bombastic and discombobulating manner meant to shock and distract from the accusations against them.

https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1405264042659360774

They replace those doubts with targeted blame placed on an opponent’s shoulders.

Which is exactly what we just witnessed.

Paul and her party are at odds over who to support during the recent Palestinian/Israeli conflict and ongoing land possession dispute.

That has zero to do with LPC who has been very clear that the party supports a two state solution and condemns any violence by both sides of the conflict.

Yes, it’s a middle of the road policy, but intentionally does not pick sides.

The Green Party members are more interested in virtues and supporting the victim to elicit emotional allegiance than solutions and lowering tensions. (Incidentally, this should be a cue for all how unprepared the party is to actually lead).

Problem is, they can’t seem to decide which side is the victim and which side is the aggressor.

The answer is they both are. Neither are without fault or responsibility in exacerbating the decades old fight for legitimacy as a nation state.

Israeli Jews have been taking a more intolerant approach to coexistence with Muslim Palestinians. But historically, it was Israelis who fled to Palestine to escape persecution elsewhere.

This is why we can not see the world in black and white. There are no good and bad sides.

Both religious ethnic groups have valid claims of persecution and both have committed atrocities of their own trying to eek out legitimacy as a nation state. Choosing a side is declaring who is more legitimate in land tenure.

That’s an internal decision for the party. In Paul’s zeal to solidify Israeli Jews claim as the more legitimate option (she’s Jewish and pro Zionist), she’s ostracized several Green Party members who don’t share that view.

Kinda the reason PMJT chose the middle ground for LPC.

It’s her own inability to recognize the choices she made herself are the cause of internal party conflict & the accusation of autocratic leadership (which POC, women and LGBTQ are all most capable of displaying) that gives her lack of experience and self awareness away.

It’s not PMJT who drove 1/3 of her MPs to the Liberals. They just offered the MP a place to land after bailing out of a crashing plane.

The expectation of deference to her authority and weird sense of entitlement to that authority that Paul is displaying is troubling.

She refuses responsibility for her own mishaps, refuses to recognize her religious bias. Projects blame for her party’s inability at declaring a coherent ME policy on her main competition and accuses those who are challenging her (her own party members) of racism & sexism.

I’m not sure she could be any more lame of a duck.

Playing the race and gender card within your own fortress of support is NOT indicative of the majority party support she tried to claim. Blaming another party for internal conflicts is a warning sign of what’s to come.

It’s been noted that Paul hasn’t had much press coverage since becoming leader and losing her first attempt at gaining a seat in Parliament.

I seem to remember her being disappointed that fellow progressive parties didn’t “permit” her to win by not running a candidate.

The cynical side of me suspects this is all political theatre to gain attention. Literally hours after a sweet interview on Real Talk with Ryan Jesperson, this BS blew up media.

But I know the ME conflict is a long-standing conundrum for virtue signalling types.

Simplicity, purity of ideology, single issue consideration and incapacity for complexity and complications seems to be an opposition policy characteristic.

They don’t know what to do with situations that don’t conveniently fit into moral absolutism.

Good people have some bad characteristics. Bad people have some good characteristics.

The world is complicated. As complicated and complex as the human beings inhabiting it.

There are no simplistic easy solutions.

Attempting to impose a leader’s version of simplicity is most often than not the cause of internal conflicts.

When there is no room for variance in thought and belief, people rebel.

That rebellion isn’t race or gender related. And it sure as hell isn’t another party’s fault.

Aggressiveness can often be misinterpreted as confidence.

Right about now there are some internal green leaders slapping their heads for not seeing sooner what was clearly on display today. Like during the party’s leadership campaign and election.

I’m fine with GPC imploding and publicly exploding. It just makes it clear what I saw several years ago. The party is limited in experience, narrow minded in purpose and completely incapable of using political power wisely and judiciously.

You vote for this party, you deserve to waste your vote.

As a person who has dealt with racism and sexism professionally, I take umbrage with those who lack the skills and knowledge required to compete with those with privilege.

Yes people make mistakes. But the first mistake is hiding behind systemic disadvantages to cover up inexperience and lack of skill.

There’s a reason women work twice as hard as men to get the same position. And POC do too. Because they have disadvantages to overcome.

It requires Herculean efforts. It’s not fair. Who the bloody heck said life is fair?

As leaders who come from disadvantaged communities is it NOT our MAIN objective to make life more fair? So those who don’t possess rare skill and knowledge have opportunities too?

It is incredibly difficult to be a woman of colour with a minority faith and sexuality leading a political party in any nation.

But to use those disadvantages to explain away lack of leadership skills makes it doubly hard for others like you to follow in your path.

When the mediocre rise to the top, they set the expectations of the majority for everyone else with your characteristics who follows. Like JWR did for indigenous women.

You’ll get no empathy from me. I recognized long ago I’m not a leader and far too mercurial for leadership.

Yeah, I’m smart. I have a good knowledge base. But I accept my personal limitations and stick to what I’m good at. Analysis, big picture worldview, playing devils advocate, speaking blunt truth.

I don’t use my culture, ethnicity, gender or disability to escape criticism.

Only ambitious obsequious opportunists hide from controversy and responsibility.

Every culture has them, every ethnicity, all genders and all abilities.

What really is the measure of a person is integrity & the capacity to take responsibility & learn from mistakes.

I don’t see that with Paul or GPC.