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| Images of Justin Trudeau; Justin in blackface, around 2000 (left); Justin on his last day as prime minister in 2025, taking with him a chair as a souvenir (right). Perhaps sticking out his tongue means something to him. |
My lament is not based on philosophy but on tradition. If one cannot be sure about the answer to the most important questions, then tradition is the best basis for the practical.
What do we believe, what gives life meaning, what means something? We are searching for meaning in the material world because all around us tradition and values are questioned or considered obsolete. Society is now firmly divided between liberals and conservatives. Liberals tend to smugness in their claiming to know what is right and what is wrong about everything, while many conservatives (in North America) tend to lie low avoiding having to deal with liberal intolerance, heckling, tongue sticking out, and the usually unacknowledged liberal bias. Liberals assume their superior intelligence, even their moral superiority; conservatives are usually in hiding, lying to pollsters and their liberal friends, and tolerating the latest attack on their intelligence and integrity. Most of the media, including the CBC and the BBC, have a fairly obvious liberal bias.
What Justin Trudeau, our former prime minister, promoted, it all failed: whether in housing, immigration, education, medical care, social reform, the military, the national debt and deficit, legalized euthanasia, legalized marijuana, it all failed, it’s all worse; I think of John Cage's famous statement, “don’t try to improve the world, you’ll only make it worse.” What Justin Trudeau did was never thought out as to its consequences and how it would seriously affect the country in a negative way; no wonder his approval rating was about 15% before he was forced into resigning.
Justin never considered that there is really only one thing people want and that is freedom, everything else comes second; freedom is not provided by increased government involvement with people's lives. Freedom refers to the individual and the individual's rights, including freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, freedom to be left alone, and freedom to own property. What Justin brought with him was increased government involvement in people's lives, not freedom, not individual responsibility. And he wanted to impose online censorship; we were expected to pay for what Justin legislated and give up our free speech.
Edited: 19 May 2025
