December 7, 2024
The emptiness at the heart of Canadian elections
People demand things we don’t need, from politicians who make promises they can’t keep, by spending money we don’t have.
People demand things we don’t need, from politicians who make promises they can’t keep, by spending money we don’t have.

Canadian elections are among the most aggravating in the world. Watching the leaders race around the country, bemoaning problems we don’t have, promising things we don’t need, by spending money we don’t have is exhausting. It’s like watching bad actors in an off-off-Broadway play with no plot, no meaning and no intermission.

Consider, for example, the apparently destitute middle class. Listening to our politicians, you would conclude they are a disadvantaged people, barely surviving, desperately scratching away in the bleak hope their children will somehow survive to adulthood.

Since almost all Canadians consider themselves members of the middle class, odds are you are sputtering at my mockery. I can hear you insist: You are struggling. You are worried about getting ahead. Everyone knows the younger generations are not doing as well as their parents and the future looks even bleaker. How dare I suggest otherwise?

Well, because it’s nonsense.

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See Also:

(1) Desperate Trudeau needs NDP voters to keep his job

(2) Conservatives Take Lead Over Trudeau’s Party One Week Before Election

(3) Double standard’s obvious on blackface and Trudeau

(4) The government we end up electing is a mirror of ourselves

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