A canary has died in mineshaft of leftist progressive government that has ruled Canada since 2015.
The Liberal government has just lost one of its most secure ridings - one of Canada’s wealthiest, influential and progressive minded.
While it is no guarantee of the outcome of the federal election that is slated for 2025 it can be considered the harbinger of public rejection of the progressive agenda.
One of the main reasons for this loss was an arbitrary hike in our country’s capital gains taxation - a tax increase directed at boosting already unsustainable social programs rathe then reducing fiscally unwise deficits and a readily growing national debt.
Not only did this constituency feel the greatest direct impact of the increase but also in the enterprises they control.
Investment, productivity and the health of the general economy all have been faltering as the government enacts environmental legislation to combat a level of emissions that are minuscule in terms of global output.
Rapidly increasing immigration initiated a major housing shortage as well as major deficits in public services such as healthcare and public transportation.
Our military ability and our foreign policy have left us with a justifiable reputation as weaklings on the international stage.
There is a growing recognition at all levels of our white society that the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity legislation is being employed to discriminate against them on the basis of past history over which they had no control or responsibility.
The loophole in our Charter of Rights that permits this discrimination is being exploited by both government and our judiciary in a manner that is diminishing respect for both institutions.
The constant streams of apologies from government that insinuate guilt upon a generation of white people for the historical mistreatment of non-whites by politicians whose predecessors were the instigators of such treatment has grown wearisome and increasingly resented.
The Marxist inspired progressives that lard our public and private institutions have lost the support of the much of the Canadian public for one major for one major reason: the lack of common sense that exists amongst their ranks coupled with their abiding belief in their moral and intellectual superiority.
As their fallibility becomes evermore apparent in the course of their efforts to perfect an imperfect humanity by authoritarian intervention, the more people are being moved to reject the social upheavals they are dedicated to.
Progressive embrace of social theory rather than reality has fractured their credibility and the evidence would lead one to believe support for their agenda is beginning to crumble not just here in Canada, but in the US as well.
Contrary to popular belief, the swing away from progressivism in North America does not herald the rise of extreme right wing politics as is happening in Europe.
It is a return to moderate liberal and conservative ground, as well, one hopes to the resurrection of bipartisanship.
Both the Marxist left and the far right have lost significant support as an exhausted voters seek a return to relative political stasis.
Tolerance in both countries has been sorely tested, co-opted and manipulated but it has survived - albeit with a increased wariness.
In today’s North American society the extreme left has readily defeated the extreme right in the court of public opinion - the extreme right is not near as well organized and its racial agenda is repulsive to most decent people.
Given the chance the extreme right in North America would be every bit the threat to democracy and freedom as the extreme left has become.
Both extremes gravitate to totalitarianism for similar reasons.
The "extreme left" has in no way, shape, or form defeated anybody anywhere in the court of public opinion. Most of the American public recoils from the far left and what they stand for, e.g. Hamas, Defund the Police, open borders, transitioning minors, LGBTQ indoctrination in schools. Don't confuse far left with liberalism.
And what "racial agenda" exactly are you referring to?? I wasn't aware there was one.
The extreme left - the Marxist inspired element - has managed to defeat liberalism.
Liberalism is based on pragmatism, inquiry and debate.
The Marxist element in our educational systems quashed these freedoms and implemented their political dogma with which they used to create the leftist progressives that are now imbedded in our society.
The progressives muzzled, shunned and demonized both liberals and conservatives alike who had the temerity to question or contradict their agenda.
Given the core of the Marxist philosophy is social revolution, one of the primary strategies of progressivism is to promote confrontations between those they convince they are victims and those they identify as victimizers.
They were not successful their stock-in-trade stoking of the poor against the rich so they moved their class warfare to the racial arena.
The first time around it failed but given a second chance it was very successful.
They were able to cast white society as being incurably racist and thus requiring subjugation by non-white races - without any tangible proof.
No self respecting liberal, let alone a conservative, would ever buy into such a preposterous proposition but, when they voiced their concern, the progressive cancel culture ensured they were silenced.
I respect liberalism and its attendant tolerance but has been overwhelmed by the intolerant and exclusionary mindset of Marxist inspired progressives.
I would be one to welcome a political landscape peopled by genuine liberals and genuine conservatives.
What you're talking about is something completely different. You are talking about the leftist capture of the institutions, and on that you are 100 percent right. Your original comment said "court of public opinion," which implies that the average American is down with all of this. The people in the institutions are completely detached from and contemptuous of the average American unless they check some kind of intersectionality box. It seems we generally agree but it was a matter of semantics.
A canary has died in mineshaft of leftist progressive government that has ruled Canada since 2015.
The Liberal government has just lost one of its most secure ridings - one of Canada’s wealthiest, influential and progressive minded.
While it is no guarantee of the outcome of the federal election that is slated for 2025 it can be considered the harbinger of public rejection of the progressive agenda.
One of the main reasons for this loss was an arbitrary hike in our country’s capital gains taxation - a tax increase directed at boosting already unsustainable social programs rathe then reducing fiscally unwise deficits and a readily growing national debt.
Not only did this constituency feel the greatest direct impact of the increase but also in the enterprises they control.
Investment, productivity and the health of the general economy all have been faltering as the government enacts environmental legislation to combat a level of emissions that are minuscule in terms of global output.
Rapidly increasing immigration initiated a major housing shortage as well as major deficits in public services such as healthcare and public transportation.
Our military ability and our foreign policy have left us with a justifiable reputation as weaklings on the international stage.
There is a growing recognition at all levels of our white society that the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity legislation is being employed to discriminate against them on the basis of past history over which they had no control or responsibility.
The loophole in our Charter of Rights that permits this discrimination is being exploited by both government and our judiciary in a manner that is diminishing respect for both institutions.
The constant streams of apologies from government that insinuate guilt upon a generation of white people for the historical mistreatment of non-whites by politicians whose predecessors were the instigators of such treatment has grown wearisome and increasingly resented.
The Marxist inspired progressives that lard our public and private institutions have lost the support of the much of the Canadian public for one major for one major reason: the lack of common sense that exists amongst their ranks coupled with their abiding belief in their moral and intellectual superiority.
As their fallibility becomes evermore apparent in the course of their efforts to perfect an imperfect humanity by authoritarian intervention, the more people are being moved to reject the social upheavals they are dedicated to.
Progressive embrace of social theory rather than reality has fractured their credibility and the evidence would lead one to believe support for their agenda is beginning to crumble not just here in Canada, but in the US as well.
Contrary to popular belief, the swing away from progressivism in North America does not herald the rise of extreme right wing politics as is happening in Europe.
It is a return to moderate liberal and conservative ground, as well, one hopes to the resurrection of bipartisanship.
Both the Marxist left and the far right have lost significant support as an exhausted voters seek a return to relative political stasis.
Tolerance in both countries has been sorely tested, co-opted and manipulated but it has survived - albeit with a increased wariness.
Curious as to what your definition of far right is.
It is the same as my definition of the far left: those people who feel they have to abrogate freedom and democracy to create the society they desire.
I cannot disagree more. The right, near or far, has no interest in abrogating any constitutional freedom whatsoever.
Perhaps you can cite an example.......
Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo on the extreme right.
Stalin and Mao on the extreme left.
In today’s North American society the extreme left has readily defeated the extreme right in the court of public opinion - the extreme right is not near as well organized and its racial agenda is repulsive to most decent people.
Given the chance the extreme right in North America would be every bit the threat to democracy and freedom as the extreme left has become.
Both extremes gravitate to totalitarianism for similar reasons.
The "extreme left" has in no way, shape, or form defeated anybody anywhere in the court of public opinion. Most of the American public recoils from the far left and what they stand for, e.g. Hamas, Defund the Police, open borders, transitioning minors, LGBTQ indoctrination in schools. Don't confuse far left with liberalism.
And what "racial agenda" exactly are you referring to?? I wasn't aware there was one.
The extreme left - the Marxist inspired element - has managed to defeat liberalism.
Liberalism is based on pragmatism, inquiry and debate.
The Marxist element in our educational systems quashed these freedoms and implemented their political dogma with which they used to create the leftist progressives that are now imbedded in our society.
The progressives muzzled, shunned and demonized both liberals and conservatives alike who had the temerity to question or contradict their agenda.
Given the core of the Marxist philosophy is social revolution, one of the primary strategies of progressivism is to promote confrontations between those they convince they are victims and those they identify as victimizers.
They were not successful their stock-in-trade stoking of the poor against the rich so they moved their class warfare to the racial arena.
The first time around it failed but given a second chance it was very successful.
They were able to cast white society as being incurably racist and thus requiring subjugation by non-white races - without any tangible proof.
No self respecting liberal, let alone a conservative, would ever buy into such a preposterous proposition but, when they voiced their concern, the progressive cancel culture ensured they were silenced.
I respect liberalism and its attendant tolerance but has been overwhelmed by the intolerant and exclusionary mindset of Marxist inspired progressives.
I would be one to welcome a political landscape peopled by genuine liberals and genuine conservatives.
What you're talking about is something completely different. You are talking about the leftist capture of the institutions, and on that you are 100 percent right. Your original comment said "court of public opinion," which implies that the average American is down with all of this. The people in the institutions are completely detached from and contemptuous of the average American unless they check some kind of intersectionality box. It seems we generally agree but it was a matter of semantics.
I agree - I think people are fed up with the progressive conceit that they are the moral and intellectual superiors of society.
You're equating Hitler to Maga's? Is there a sane brain cell operating up there? We're talking about Americans in the now, today Cinderella.
No, I am not equating the MAGA’s with Hitler.
Indeed I agree with their aspirations and hope that Canada can be restored to what it was before progressives had at it.
I believe that American conservatism places a high value on freedom and democracy and will not embrace the fanaticism of the extreme right.
As you might be gathering, I am a moderate conservative who has no use for either extreme.
What?