Re: All-candidates meeting helps one voter decide, May 2.
I feel so alienated by the current state of politics, I am leaning towards becoming a libertarian. The problem is, I believe there is a role for government.
I would argue many if not most of the policies and complaints of the right address low-level public concerns, are hypocritical and easily rebutted. Who didn’t see Gordon Campbell’s self-inflicted demise, the incredible hatred Harper invoked and man fuelling late night comics – Trump.
The left isn’t much better, pragmatism is almost non-existent and political correctness rules their every thought. How long will it be before there are no pronouns, no he/she him/her? How long before Mother’s and Father’s day terms are phased out and replaced with some namby-pamby genderless parents’ day? Who didn’t see Adrian Dix shooting himself in the foot, the coup that took out Carole James or the blunder fast ferries would logically become? It is almost like they don’t really want to govern, just complain.
It is long past time that politicians at the very least just sit in at the coffee shop or pub and listen. Who thinks of and endorses a backdoor tax introduction? Really? Every pronouncement of how great free trade is should mandatorily be done in front of those displaced. Every bright, shiny object offered up mostly to the ill-informed called out, those ad hominem attacks and other diversionary tactics dismissed immediately.And all those paid apologist outreach people, down the road.
With apologies, “ain’t hiding from nobody, nobody hiding from me.”
Grant Maxwell, Nanaimo