A Wild Election (Probably) Appears

I’m pretty annoyed that the entirety of political discourse in Canada consists of playing in to conservative propaganda that Justin Trudeau has done a terrible job the last 10 years and his time is now up. I’m not saying the liberals are perfect (they are not), and they are nowhere near as progressive as they talk about.

However, despite missing some key legislation I’m still mad at (electoral reform), they have done a competent job running the country for near a decade now.

The narrative that the party has to go and we need to usher in a conservative government as a matter of course is a false dichotomy, and since all the media (or any political parties for that matter) want to talk about is PP, that is what we’re going to end up with.

I’m not worried about myself, but I am worried plenty about the state of political discourse and civility in general, and I think whatever happens next will probably be really bad for the country.

For the purposes of the next election, there is absolutely no excitement to be had for any even purportedly progressive party (NDP and Liberal are both pretty close to the center).

I’m probably going to be discouraged from talking about politics very soon so I want to say this now while I still can, but I would love to see an actual popular progressive party pitch something truly revolutionary. The blueprints are there, it’s just a matter of using them.

I don’t think we should cede the entire political landscape to those who’ve completely given up on kindness and decency to those they don’t completely agree with, and I wish we had a chance to have that conversation with a party leader who was charismatic and showed they care deeply about Canada and its people.

The last 2 elections I’ve done a Vote Compass policy rundown thing, and while I don’t think I’ll go through that question by question like I have in the past, I am certainly going to talk about my own policy positions, and since there are plenty of positions I hold that aren’t held by any major political party, I don’t think I’m in any danger of breaking the political neutrality public servants are supposed to pretend to have.