I could continue yelling at friends and family about this, or I could attempt to put a few semi-coherent sentences together here and maybe maintain a few healthy relationships in my life…
Here’s what I know: premiers Clark and Redford are, equally and unquestionably, total muppets. I’m sure they’re lovely dinner guests, and responsible neighbours, and respectful children/parents/siblings. But politically, ideologically? Muppets. One is the lesser of two evils, the other is the more popular (for now) of two awful legacies. Ignore their party names – they are, in many important ways, the same.
Progressive conservatives. Compassionate conservatives. Cool new conservatives for a cool new world.
We don’t cancel important social programs… we just cut their budgets each year, under the guise of ‘fiscal responsibility’. We think families and churches and communities are just awesome, and we’d love to support them… but ultimately you’re on your own, so better start hiding money under your mattress, chump. We are nothing like the Harper government, so don’t ever confuse us with that potential train wreck… even though our parties enact identical legislation and we share their economic and social worldview and we often employ the same people behind the scenes…
So when Clark and Redford start fighting about the Enbridge pipeline, it’s really hard to ‘take sides’. If I suffer from both cancer and ebola, do I really care which one ‘wins’? Read More