I don’t really care about culture wars, or values. I support gay marriage, multiculturalism and the women’s right to abortion right along with accountability, fiscal responsibility, and leadership based on one’s proven track record of being knowledgeable and knowing how to lead. So based on those principles, what does that make me? I’m more interested in kicking out those who have irreparably harmed Canadians during their time in Office (helloooo British Columbia), than I am in preserving this nonsense about "culture “. This is such a distraction. And this type of discussion does little to appease the hoards of young people fleeing this country because our leaders have turned their backs on them. Our forefathers would be disgusted with all of us. When you have a tone deaf Federal Government which spends 4 times of its budget on Boomers+ than on young people, maybe focus on that, rather than on this bullshit narrative about preserving whatever it is that’s dividing us into oblivion. It’s just so boring. Do better.
Hi Tara, I believe you may be misinterpreting our point, but this also gets to the crux of the issue at hand, as we both discuss at length in this episode, and as we expanded upon on stage Friday in Vancouver. Politics is downstream from culture, and "culture" is more than what some define as a distraction: it's the decisions on drugs, crime, the slippery slope from land acknowledgements, the undercutting of our young people and turning our suburbs into those for seniors and foreign speculators, and not for young Canadians. This was all rendered replaceable and interchangeable, fairly quickly, and when those organize back against bad ideas or seek to widen the window of permissible conversation, they're dismissed as being off the target. The rot is institutional. All of that matters to us. To borrow from the Grateful Dead, it's "all one song."
I was around when these same issues of rot existed under a Liberal (Provincial) as well as a Conservative regime (Federal). This is less a political issue and more about the will of the people, and their level of tolerance for the disintegration of our society. I am under NO illusion that any politician will uphold the principles of a venerable democratic society, by the very virtue of their being. I watched the debate on Friday and came away very discouraged by what I was hearing. None could offer any viable solutions that would last once their time in Office had passed. What legacy has any government left which made our society better in the past 50 years? In BC? Merely changing the narrative to discuss culture is not helpful, because that only brings up more fractions within a group and all lose focus of the task at hand: defeat the NDP+Green Party coalition. At all costs. I care more about ensuring we have viable alternatives in our education system that bypass all the radical ed partners which are currently monopolizing it, I want viable alternatives in our public healthcare system that includes private care which will end the monopoly of health associations strangling our system, and I want industry able to stimulate the economy to get the ball rolling again. Yet all we saw on Friday were candidates arguing about who was more reflective of Conservative values. Big deal. Fiddling while Rome burns ain’t gonna cut it. And until we are ready to have hard conversations about THAT, we will continue to disintegrate on all fronts. So show me policy, and a way to ensure those will bring about meaningful change in people's lives. Take a page from young people in their hunger for truth. They will find it. But watching grown ups squabble over petty differences is just wrong. The time for talking is over. Now is the time for action.
Conservatives have given up quite enough ground already.
I don’t really care about culture wars, or values. I support gay marriage, multiculturalism and the women’s right to abortion right along with accountability, fiscal responsibility, and leadership based on one’s proven track record of being knowledgeable and knowing how to lead. So based on those principles, what does that make me? I’m more interested in kicking out those who have irreparably harmed Canadians during their time in Office (helloooo British Columbia), than I am in preserving this nonsense about "culture “. This is such a distraction. And this type of discussion does little to appease the hoards of young people fleeing this country because our leaders have turned their backs on them. Our forefathers would be disgusted with all of us. When you have a tone deaf Federal Government which spends 4 times of its budget on Boomers+ than on young people, maybe focus on that, rather than on this bullshit narrative about preserving whatever it is that’s dividing us into oblivion. It’s just so boring. Do better.
Hi Tara, I believe you may be misinterpreting our point, but this also gets to the crux of the issue at hand, as we both discuss at length in this episode, and as we expanded upon on stage Friday in Vancouver. Politics is downstream from culture, and "culture" is more than what some define as a distraction: it's the decisions on drugs, crime, the slippery slope from land acknowledgements, the undercutting of our young people and turning our suburbs into those for seniors and foreign speculators, and not for young Canadians. This was all rendered replaceable and interchangeable, fairly quickly, and when those organize back against bad ideas or seek to widen the window of permissible conversation, they're dismissed as being off the target. The rot is institutional. All of that matters to us. To borrow from the Grateful Dead, it's "all one song."
I was around when these same issues of rot existed under a Liberal (Provincial) as well as a Conservative regime (Federal). This is less a political issue and more about the will of the people, and their level of tolerance for the disintegration of our society. I am under NO illusion that any politician will uphold the principles of a venerable democratic society, by the very virtue of their being. I watched the debate on Friday and came away very discouraged by what I was hearing. None could offer any viable solutions that would last once their time in Office had passed. What legacy has any government left which made our society better in the past 50 years? In BC? Merely changing the narrative to discuss culture is not helpful, because that only brings up more fractions within a group and all lose focus of the task at hand: defeat the NDP+Green Party coalition. At all costs. I care more about ensuring we have viable alternatives in our education system that bypass all the radical ed partners which are currently monopolizing it, I want viable alternatives in our public healthcare system that includes private care which will end the monopoly of health associations strangling our system, and I want industry able to stimulate the economy to get the ball rolling again. Yet all we saw on Friday were candidates arguing about who was more reflective of Conservative values. Big deal. Fiddling while Rome burns ain’t gonna cut it. And until we are ready to have hard conversations about THAT, we will continue to disintegrate on all fronts. So show me policy, and a way to ensure those will bring about meaningful change in people's lives. Take a page from young people in their hunger for truth. They will find it. But watching grown ups squabble over petty differences is just wrong. The time for talking is over. Now is the time for action.