There’s nothing new going on here.
Character assassination has always had a certain appeal.
Burn Baby Burn
The smear has been around for a long, long time. First, you find someone you don't like, then you smear them and throw gasoline on them, splashing it around like it’s important before lighting the match and watching them burn. Those relevant will be on board; those not don’t matter anyway. A great way to make new friends who are loyal and unforgiving, sharing our animosity and judgements like hot dogs, burgers and beers at the summer barbecue laughing at them because it’s fun. Allies in a just cause. Fucking Liberals. Fuck Trudeau! (pass it on).
Male bonding whether you’re a man or a woman. Stand by your man. Make America Great Again. Make Canada Great Again - Bring it Home to papa. Cheers! Proponents of the smear are often media figures like Jordan Peterson or Tucker Carlson, who jump on the bandwagon/wave knowing they'll benefit from the traction, fanning the flames in a souring scowl that rips them to shreds while watching their social media blow up. An interior, perhaps cerebral introspection lasting several seconds. Na ... I swing both ways ;). To fully participate in the smear you need to be just pre-adolescent emotionally. I'd say 8 1/2 going on 9. Translation? just stoopid.
The resentment is a bi-product of our bi-polar mortality and the smear is fallout. Wanting political figures have learned early on that it is so much easier to gain power when they stoke reaction & resentment towards those running the show (and those they represent).
Anger sells. Unfortunately for them, it rarely pans out. A flash in the pan that comes and goes after people realize that it's just posturing with no real substance. Still worth the jab. Look ...
Everything that’s wrong is over there. Zero accountability - zero responsibility. Easy peasy. A slam-dunk bona fide killer. Nasty because it needs to be AND works every time because the masses need a scapegoat; someone to blame. I mean why use an environmentally friendly pest control solution when you can use real poison? It's a process of retaliation then elimination. Plus - it feels good. Rage has its benefits. Endorphins kick in. A side order of testosterone and a big blast of oxygen from all that huffing & puffing, all brought on by those you despise. Short term gain, long term pain. Bring it ON! Ok, the stress may eventually give you a heart attack but the satisfaction will linger, long after you’re dead and gone.
The Punishment: Tough Love
I’m sure humans in history felt so much better after stoning someone, watching the insidious adversary get crushed by our rising underling, wrestling, boxing - any sport for that matter. The patriot vs. the traitor. Good vs. evil. Right vs. wrong … blue vs. red. That said, I feel a haunting emptiness, especially now (cue Pachabel's Canon - deutsche grammophon - Vienna Symphony 1998). Being in the middle is a lonely place to be, in a world where you have to be one or the other. I mean, if it’s not black it has to be white right? If you’re not a Conservative then you MUST be Liberal and vice versa. Both really love to pull the lever … not one of us? Then you gotta be one of THEM.
Remember Dad servicing you with a proper strapping when you were 5, saying something like 'I'm doing this for your own good'? Kinda like that. All I ever learned by being smacked around was how to resent. So ya, I’m a moderate with issues. On the political spectrum, I would be considered center leaning left. That said, most Cons see me as FAR left just because I’m ‘leaning’ that way. Nope. Turns out there are some like me who see the flaws on both sides. I have almost as many problems with the left as I do with the right. Justin Trudeau’s time is up after having made so many colossal blunders. WHAT? Ok, just a frikkin' minute. Give me a few seconds to absorb that. You said what??
My Conservative friends aren’t sure what to make of me when I agree with them. A silence in confusion. But I thought you were … Jesus man. Pick a side for christ's sakes. Hilarious. Ok. Let me clarify ... Trudeau's blunders have been blown way out of proportion by the smear.
Sunny Ways: The Wokey Pokey
Note to pompous 'protagonists'; I really don't need to be told to be careful around making references towards nationalities, using a colour in a sentence, when and when NOT to wish someone Merry Christmas or that it's offensive to be gender specific when the situation demands a variation. I am respectful of all people. Being dictated to is offensive to me.
I don't require being reminded or told 'how' to properly appreciate others.
I find woke culture’s need to make their point by sticking it in your eye as offensive as the trucker convoy in Ottawa 3 years ago. Fighting for their right to ‘protest’ when in reality it was all just a lame excuse to burn the barn down, in the name of ‘freedom’. No, it was never about vaccine mandates but about righteous entitlement. That all too familiar ‘fuck you’ to the liberal elites who think they’re better than we are. All about taking our country back and not taking any more bullshit. The mandate nonsense was just a red herring - hapless hypocrisy.
That said, if I had to choose between accepting people for who they are instead of who I want them to be? I'll choose the former. In my humble opinion, in this final chapter of my life now, I honestly think that Liberals in general are far more tolerant and open-minded around our differences; more willing to compromise (despite their strict rules around language).
We are now in a minority of those who think that way.
Also entertaining and amusing for me is that so many Canadian Conservatives disapprove of Trump yet approve of Poilievre when in reality, they’re basically one in the same ideologically. Welcome to the con. No, Justin Trudeau’s biggest downfall is just one big smear campaign. From his patterned socks, to blackface, to his infamous ‘sunny ways’, it’s all very calculated and thought out, just like it was in the United States … AND it worked! Hook, line & sinker, the classic snow job designed to take down a flawed political ideology in favour of the right one.
Epilogue:
What most Americans and Canadians still don’t see is that it’s just that. A con that won’t be obvious for several more years after the shit really hits the fan and this new breed of imposters are seen for who they really are. Frauds. In the meantime, the smear has its place in the grand scheme of things. In our upcoming ‘carbon tax election’ so few are actually getting that there is a much bigger picture lurking under the surface. I mean c'mon; carbon tax election? Pathetic. I can promise you this ... in 10 years, even our most loyal Conservative Canadians will look back on the Justin Trudeau years and say that he wasn't so bad after all.
Out of sight, out of mind and what you don't know won't hurt you ... yet.
