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Now, as in the past, I take sides on public issues according to which side I hate more. There are no sides to love; unless they are Christ, beauty, goodness, truth; but these are not the “sides” that are available in the restaurant of public affairs. These are indicated instead by cheerleaders. Indeed, the very idea of taking “sides” tends to tickle my vomit reflex. But there are better sides and worse, in the main, and one must oppose the worst.
Americans and others should know this. The mass market’s growing revulsion with the Democrat party brand gave Donald Trump his remarkable win, last November. This does not mean they, or any large number of them, had learnt anything about the issues involved. All they had to know was that the Democrats were detestable, and indeed, worse even than the Republicans. Since that election, it turns out they were dead right, and we now know what a vast “shithole” America had become, but now they have called in new “plumbing managers.”
Canada is, I suspect, only a different case for the moment. Everything I know about politics in this country assures me that the NDP-Liberals are actually worse than the Democrats, and that we are proportionately more deeply enmired in corruption. If Poilievre does what Trump and Musk are doing, to eliminate counter-productive spending and thus cut debt and taxes — up here in the frozen north — we wouldn’t have to embarrass ourselves with “Orange Man Bad” demonstrations. We would instead simply resume getting rich (which shouldn’t be our absolute, either). But give it a year or ten to work out, and Canada will once again be chasing the U.S. example.
If we were intelligent, improbably enough, we would be proportionately well ahead of the United States, rather than well behind. Alas, so long as we are voting for the latest “progressives” to send to Ottawa, we will be going down the drain hole faster.