About to leave the house and I just realized that more about how I see the world has changed in the last 30 days than during any other similar time period in my life. Mostly, I no longer have any fond affinity towards the NDP. They’re not the way to a better future.
Familiarity breeds contempt very quickly in our world of social media and 24-7 comms. Captured, corporate, editorially biased media illustrated this contempt by unnaturally decoupling Trudeau’s failings from his many important successes.
In our brave new world, small missteps are more important than lifting people out of poverty or advancing women’s issues, complex programs like water advisories are reported as failures instead of the 98% successes they are. And yes, close counts in the real world.
Instead of moving us towards better, Jagmeet Singh selected every negative, destructive, unsavoury, non-progressive tactic from the playbook of the conservatives while his supporters cheered him on and made excuses for the behaviour under the “trying to win” tab.
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