jason kenney and doug ford. how depressing.





Yet hundreds of thousands voted for them.





How does this happen??





How do we prevent this from happening?








impudent strumpet said...

I'm baffled when people are like "we can't possibly even consider NDP at all ever because of 25 years ago" but not "we can't possibly consider Conservative at all ever because of 15 years ago".

And this is before we even get into partisanship. They'll be like "This particular Liberal government/platform is bad so we shouldn't vote for them this time" or "This particular Conservative government platform is bad so we shouldn't vote for them this time" but "We shouldn't vote NDP at all ever regardless of what else happens in the interim because they were bad 25 years ago."

Dismissing out of hand the possibility that the NDP could ever in any potential future be the best available option, in a way that they don't do for other parties even though, regardless of your situation in life, there are things that other parties did that caused at least as much direct personal harm to you or general harm to society.

laura k said...

Yes. Many many times yes. So baffling and frustrating.

Rural said...

"I just can't find it in me to be optimistic about the future right now. "
Still stuck here in Ontario it is indeed looking bleak, the only bright spot may be Ms May and her party out there on the west coast will gain a greater support as we see PEI 'greening up'!

allan said...

With ALL of the major media in on the fix - since those huge media corporations will benefit greatly from the crooked system - I see no way to fight the bias narrative they pump out.

Media: "Your protest with 500,000 people that dozens of people busted their asses for a year to organize? Well, we just won't cover it. It will last a few hours and most people will never even know it existed."

I see absolutely no way to fight that.

laura k said...

I agree with Micah White that mass demos and rallies are dead-ends now. We've overused them, the police and ruling class know how to neutralize them (provacateurs, pens, etc.), the media ignores them -- we're yelling into the wind. Except in some specific circumstances -- and then only if if it's spontaneous -- the big crowd thing is a waste of time.

Activists thought social media would take the place of mass media coverage, but that is now a dead-end too. Social media either speaks to the converted (sharing pictures of the rally with people who support the rally) or devolves into a tweet war. Plus social media keeps us fake-busy and distracted.

I wish everyone would read "The End of Protest".

I don't know what comes next, but it is time to move on to new forms of dissent.