The Antisocial Socialist

 Well, we get a "reprieve" from tariffs; wondering if I can now get a reprieve from Canadian nationalism. I feel as much of a swell of pride watching sportsball fans boo the American national anthem as anyone else*—I am human after all—but the ridiculousness of Buy Canadian when it's fruit and vegetables harvested by indentured migrant farm workers who are spat on when they walk through the streets of Leamington and denied medical care when they're dosed with pesticides is just too much for me. These are the people the current Liberal government is throwing under the bus when it reduces immigration; these are the people who the ascendant Conservatives will deport or force into concentration camps or whatever monstrous plan they fantasize about whilst wanking into their Ed-the-Socks.

The chaos is the point. I wish people would realize that. We have to fight the chaos, of course, but to do so we have to not panic every time the fascist does a fascism. And we have to do so with a critical eye, acknowledging that much of the current fascism in the US (Proud Boys, Jordan Peterson) is in fact a Canadian export.

* No seriously it was cool, you love to see it. What's odder is the silence in response to the Raptors themselves wearing Black History t-shirts, which fucking ruled.

I would be much more excited about the prospect of a spring election if I thought the composition of the government was likely to change. But like I've said before, Harper could eat a live kitten on the National and my resentful, spiteful countrymen would probably still vote for him.

I don't understand it, and I don't understand why the Liberals don't get rid of Ignatieff, either. No one likes him. Not that I'd vote Liberal in any case, but traditionally, most Canadians do. Iggy's stupider than Dion and yet comes off as more of an egghead. He has a clear disdain for most of the population, and he's resolutely uncharismatic. At this point, with Tories' rampant disregard for the rule of law completely out in the open, the Liberals should be able to run a half-rotted turnip for Prime Minister and carry off a majority of seats. And yet, they hold fast to the one person whom no one wants to see running the country.

I'm not going to say anything bad about Layton, even though I generally have bad things to say about Layton, because I am not convinced that he will live through the election.

So that's my deep thoughts on the democratic process. I guess it's good because I'm unlikely to be disappointed by federal politics at this point.

Who else is now afraid that we'll have to hear the dreaded words, "Prime Minister Stephen Harper"? The only good that can come of that is if he won a minority government and there was a non-confidence vote immediately, before he could turn the country into the United States of Jesusland, Junior.

I missed the debate last night, since I was painting my room "small-c communist red" (photos to come). Was it fun? Would I still want Duceppe for PM?

Via threeliesforone: Rick Mercer's picks for a Conservative cabinet. Funny, yes, but this is why we should all be very, very nervous.

What can I say? I prefer crooks to fascists.