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GenX. My politics are clearly left and I’m tired of compromise with the neo-liberal right. They’ve driven a wedge with their money based centrist politics. We used to be able to do great things and we can again; we just need the leadership to do so; and folks to say as much.

Category: USA Politics

  • The far right overplayed their hand on Charlie Kirk

    This was a moment. In the immediate aftermath of a very public assassination of Charlie Kirk, that more rational minds could have spoken up and unilaterally condemned political violence and encouraged the masses to put down their weapons and return to civility. That did not happen. To be absolutely clear, nobody deserves to be murdered…

  • The working class are a voting pool that neither the conservatives nor liberals deserve

    Conservatives are really good at portraying themselves as the voice of the little guy when they’re not in power; they have this identity politics sewn up like pro’s. But working class voters, who’s grievances and anxieties are real, keep being sold a bill of goods that are at times opposite to what was advertised. To…

  • Don’t get cocky, Liberals.

    Please understand that your team barely won this election. A minority government where you’re to rely on opposition parliamentary votes to pass legislation. To be sure, Liberals could have claimed victory in any case. The day before Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, his party looked like it was racing towards the electoral cliff and the…

  • Epilogue of the federal election

    So there it is. Another federal election done and gone, a new government chosen by voters for up to 4 years, one that will hopefully outlast the insanity south of us. But not all is great. I will start that I am a country-first progressive voter. That is to say that I value my country’s…

  • All we had to do was be kind to each other.

    But have we failed? Its awful to any humanitarian what is going on in the middle east. The ongoing conflict in Gaza and the IDF’s military expedition now underway has ripped open wounds and tested sanity of folks the world over. Nobody, in their right mind, likes war. Not overt war, not acts of terror,…

  • Racism and bigotry are gaining again

    And we are worse off for it. By now you’ve been well acquainted with ‘wokeism’ and the smear the far right have coined against anyone or anything that highlights systemic injustices faced by minorities and the historically oppressed. But the opposite of ‘woke’ isn’t merely to disagree. The folks on the right are actively moving…

  • Another lap around the big flaming gas bag at the centre of our universe

    We’re in the final hours of 2022, and to many, glad to be done with it. The new year awaits, but how are we going to be any different than 2020-22? Excusing the fact that a global pandemic interrupted our world, what have we learned? Some might argue that the pandemic brought out the worst…

  • The coming reckoning of social media

    Starting with MySpace 20+ years ago, now facebook and twitter, social media is facing a reckoning. The legal framework for social media to exist and thrive has been based on the limited immunity that each organization has through actions of various governments. This means that users can post whatever they want, but social media operators…

  • Calling all good men. Wanna help? Sit down please.

    As you know by now, the Supreme Court in the USA has revoked ‘Roe V Wade’, the constitutionally significant court ruling from the 1970’s which paved the way for legal access to abortion services in America. Everyone and their pet rock wants to chime in; not all of it is helpful. Those on the right-wing…

  • Go Left. To save us. All of us.

    In uncertain times, folks can reach for more bold solutions when the same-old no longer works. These are some of those times. The Neoliberal economic philosophy hasn’t worked for large swathes of society, and those for whom it works are already the wealthiest and most powerful among us. Through no fault of our own, the…