BC: we are not special. We're not "the Greatest Place on Earth." We're a colony that laid waste to unimaginable beauty and complexity & are proud of it; we're rank with corruption, lack of accountability, & complacency about a near-complete lack of watchdogs, checks & balances..
We are so parochial that we don't seem to understand that this degree of lack of oversight of govt, this lack of checks and balances on power, isn't even normal in Canada let alone globally. Then the lack of daylight between unions & the NDP isn't standard either: see Ontario
This 'BC exceptionalism,' this smugness of British Columbians, the sense of a unique greatness, is 100% delusional. If it derives from some feeling about the natural beauty of this place, that's extra delusional considering what settlers have done to this place in only 150 yrs
We have done nothing to construct a civil society to counter brute resource extraction married to a bought govt. BCers remain shamefully blasé about & entirely complicit in this, all of it at the expense of a shared liveable future not to mention of FNs..
A right-wing #BCNDP is now accelerating this destruction & corporate capture of govt, & they're unstoppable thanks to a powerful yet false majority, one they enjoy because so few BCers bothered to vote in the rigged Pro Rep referendum & too many voted for the paralysis of FPTP
Are people now starting to see why the NDP are free to blithely lie & do nothing in part because of the handy security they feel thanks to FPTP? The baleful influence of the corporate media in BC is not our only problem.
Friend just now: "The interesting thing about this place is people can flat out lie, and even when it's obvious, they just are like 'I was telling the truth the whole time' and we continue." I mean you just have to look at the smoke and mirrors show of BC's pandemic mgmt...

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