I'm Sorry to Break the News to You but You're Not Going To Win the Election. Stop Pretending.


I just read the Green Party platform. I came away wondering what these people are smoking.

For the last few elections I've voted Green, provincially and federally. Now I'm left to ask why, what was I thinking? It's not that the alternatives are better, more compelling, more likely to rise to the climate emergency that has befallen us but that's not the point.

As Churchill said, sometimes it's not enough that we do our best. Sometimes we must do what is required. Times of grave danger. Times like today.

The Greens have a platform that might be just a little plausible - if they had the remotest prospect of winning election. They don't. They know it.  And, without any prospect of influencing Parliament, the platform is bullshit, pure greenwash.

They had three MPs. Now they've got two. Their new leader has run for office a number of times and keeps striking out. What she has done is throw the membership into turmoil. Well done, Annamie.

Justin Trudeau will probably win this election. He's got a decent shot at a majority. That's a terrible thing for Canada. If there's one thing the wildfires, the nation-blanketing smoke, the heatwaves, the marine life die-off, the drought and floods, the grasshopper infestations of July should have taught us it's that the last thing this country needs is another government of petro-pimps.  You've see the face of 2021. Imagine what awaits by 2025. Chances are you won't recognize the place or good parts of it.

Sanctimony isn't helpful but what else do the Greens offer?  What's the Green future, "I told you so"? Who does that help?

What can the Greens do, other than waste their time and resources in a Quixotic campaign, tilting at windmills? If they can't force change inside Parliament they have to be a force outside. Civil disobedience, civil unrest. Be prepared to run afoul of the law and to pay for it. The wheels are already coming off the wagon. All that's needed is a little extra push.

Defend the country. Defend our people. Defend the future. Parliament is not the place to do that.


 


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  1. TrailblazerAugust 6, 2021 at 5:49 PM

    From my conversation with a Green party phone operative; I suspect the mood is dismal within the Green Party.
    That the Greens have succumbed to the issue of the Jewish state rather than environmental issues is disturbing .
    Many fringe Greens have always been a problem with what I would describe as Euro Greens!
    Far too Many Canadian Greens are of the ilk of dry toilets at the bottom of the garden and a potters wheel (and too much pot) in the front porch.
    Euro Greens are much more pragmatic and promote free LOCAL enterprise whilst protecting the environment.
    If that message got out to Canadians the Tories would have a fit!
    Unless I hear some distinctive directive from my local MP Paul Manley before the not required Federal election I will spoil my vote.
    Sad time


    TB

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    1. The Disaffected LibAugust 7, 2021 at 9:03 AM

      When I went through their current policy statements, TB, I found everything except "funding for the CBC." What was missing was any sense of urgency to the emergency that is now upon us or any comprehensive policy on how to deal with it.

      Of course, with Angus Reid showing the Greens with a commanding 3 per cent vote share the Green platform and my critiques are equally inconsequential.

      Ironic that the same Angus Reid poll should show Canadians more concerned about climate change than even Covid-19 ( but not by much).

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