Thread by @sunnshiiny

It’s apparent to me that Singh is using contempt for political discourse as a method of attracting support.

We criticize CPC for being cynical and negative, what about NDP?

Half naked in a shower, wasting water, a blank vacant look of contempt.

This is supposed to attract voters? Who wants support from disaffected youth with cynical outlooks and zero regard for the dignity and respect required of a global leader?

Obviously JS does.

Who wants their kids inundated with cynicism and pessimism about their future? Obviously JS believes this is a strategy that will win him favour by “dissing” (disrespecting) the role of national leader.

We don’t need foolish and skeptical court jesters attempting to undermine the political system to take it over to make systemic change.

And we don’t need NDP pundits promoting the indoctrination of youth to despise legitimate authority and our national institutions.

I despise what NDP has become. Anarchists, revolutionaries, disrespectful punks thinking projection of an uneducated contemptible attitude is more important than careful consideration of policy and solemn gravity for the number of lives they have the power to impact.

And this is the party that wants to lower the voting age.

Not if you’re going to teach youth that politics is theatre and virtue trumps policy and action.

There are people defending Singh’s shower performance. Saying he’s connecting with the youth vote.

If contempt is required to connect with youth and encourage them to vote NDP, what does that say about the party? What does that say about their voters and support base?

Nothing I want anything to do with.

Nothing that deserves consideration.

Young people who understand little about how the political system works, how it’s supposed to work and how it’s been prevented to work and by whom are being groomed to demand instant change.

*Cancel the Senate. *Adopt PR.
*Defund the Police.
*LandBack.
*Cancel constitutional monarchy.
*Abolish the Indian Act
*Adopt UNDRIP
*Cancel purview and separation of powers.
*Immediately stop O&G development.
*Force provinces to adopt Pharmacare and Dental.
*Remove capitalism.

*Expand union power and public or co-operative ownership.
*UBI for everyone
*Expand Disability benefits
*Housing is a right so give everyone a house.
*Fund Green Energy exclusively.
*Offer Just Transition on their terms.
*Enrich the poor and tax the rich heavily.

These are the policies NDP is selling to the youth of this nation. Fantasy, mixed in with structural changes to our democracy, blending in Marxist economics and Direct Democracy.

I can guarantee the vast majority of NDP supporters have no concept or comprehension what these policies would do to the Canadian political and economic system.

They don’t understand the changes implied or the shift in power dynamics it would make. It just sounds good to them.

It’s the same method used on the far right to indoctrinate youth and those who don’t understand how policy works and how it impacts their everyday existence.

It’s demagogic populism. Tell people who have no comprehension of how things work what they want to hear.

Instant relief from poverty, instant redistribution of wealth and resources, instant mob rule power to the people.

There’s a lot of urgency built in these extremist platforms and no measurable plans on how to get there. No bother, we’ll all fake it until we make it up.

Only rubes and the gullible (technically the same thing) would fall for this type of campaigning. It’s snake oil. Offer a magical cure for sale, and run with all the money after it’s sold because when people find out they’ve been swindled, they tend to get angry & retaliate.

This is fairy tale and fable politics. Political theatre.

Jack and the Beanstalk.
The Three Little Pigs.
The Ant and the Grasshopper.
The Pied Piper.

Basic social skills and understanding of power dynamics are concepts learned as small children.

Except we stopped teaching those boring lessons and opted for Elmo, super hero fantasies, and anthropomorphized animal cartoons that entertain, but convey little understanding of how the world works. So we didn’t expose our children to the truth of social & political reality.

Everything is perfect. There are no social problems. Conflict is absent. Competing interests are a fallacy. Every opinion is valid and deserves consideration.

We set our youth up trying to protect them.

There’s a reason Aesop’s Fables and Grimm’s Fairy Tales have existed for centuries. Because they taught children basic social awareness and power dynamics. They also taught children about fairness and justice, and that those were often only achievable in fairy tales and fables.

They offered hope for a better future.

We’ve anesthetized fairy tales. Hansel, the grasshopper, the children in the Pied Piper, they all die miserable deaths in the original versions.

Those original versions taught children that the world is not fair. People with malevolent intent exist, & they often win. Hard work is required to survive. Honesty and truth are crucial to build trust. Lack of effort & of caution combined with gullibility can get you killed.

Survival skills. Skepticism and critical thinking. All knowledge and skills required to navigate and survive in the real world. We don’t teach them that anymore.

Which is why millennials buy so much snake oil. They take snake oil salesmen at face value.

Especially before they’ve been burned a few times by the school of hard knocks. Even after, when they’re looking for easy explanations for why they’ve been burned. Scapegoats. Easy to identify targets of hate and scorn.

We did this to ourselves protecting our kids from reality.

That’s why extremists target children with their propaganda and cynicism. Get them while they’re young and impressionable. Gullible. Persuadable.

Yes, it’s creepy & disturbing to see a leader of a political party pandering to tweens and teens half naked in a shower.

I don’t want my kids exposed to guys in underpants attempting to grift kids about ideology & politics using contempt.

I taught my kids life skills required to survive. Lessons I learned from fairy tales and fables (European and Indigenous).

Just like I learned when I was a kid.