This started out as comment. It changed into something else rather quickly.
The amount of time I spend looking for one little detail, just for myself, and when I was making vids too, drove me kind of insane sometimes. And if couldn't find it, never enters the equation. Or if it's not what I thought. And yes, I comparmentalize rather easily. I might think something to be true, but unless I know it, won't repeat it. The lies and misinformation I've been seeing on youtube lately. And the ai garbage... The truth is so important, yet no one seems to care anymore. Clicks and views and likes. ME ME ME ME!! THE ONLY TRUTH THAT MATTERS IS MINE!
The truth is the only thing that saves the world. And WAAAAY too many people think that opinions are important, and lies are truth, and good is evil.
They don't seem to understand that many are guillibleand dont' care the rate of people who vote against their own interests, amazes me. Liberals have always at least paid lip service to the people. Now, less and less, but historically, liberals have been just as racist as conservatives. I think most of the signers of independence, with a few exceptions, would be classified as liberals today. From what I understand,(I've not honestly read it) it's a magnificent piece of writing. That the values it instills are supposed to help the people, against the power of an oligarchy, against fascism, to protect the people, from the likes of common criminals a la drumpf.
But we go left, we go right. The left is better, because there's enough there who actually do care, that want to help the people, and are never able, because of bullshit past agreements, court bullshit that drags on for years, and while some wrongs have been righted, there are still many many things that still need to happen.
But as I said, people vote against their own interests. The vote for conservatives, is a vote for a group of people, who think they're the majority, when really, the country is split down the middle. So when the conservatives say they have a majority, check the actual totals.
the point, is that liberals are "better" for the people, as the only time our rights get recognized, is under a liberal gov't. They're willing to acknowledge the past mistakes, as well as agreements, that previous gov'ts have made. They're willing to give LBGTQ+ their rights. And not just because it's expected that it would be liberals promoting this, but because it was the right thing to do. Conservatives almost never think about the the right thing to do. Because they know, the most powerful people in the country are behind and beside them. The wealthy, the corporations, and the police. Military doesn't count here, because I kind of doubt that A: the gov't would stoop so low, or B: the troops would follow obviously illegal orders.
The wealthy, well, because they got the money, and "invest" in politicians. The corps, because they've almost got a monopoly on the entire world. Food companies are down to a few big ones, banks, tech, insurance, etc. Sure, there's lots of little guys, but really, when you look at the numbers, and realize that the top 5 in a lot of companies own a large amount of that industry, and then you think, man this has been consolidating a lot over the past decade. Mergers and such. And when a company gets merged out bought out, the workers don't see any of that value. They should be happy to have a job. I forgot. A job that they basically slave at for 8-12 hours, then trudge home for an hour each way on the highway, only to find out, they paycheque isn't even going to cover the rent anymore, because their land lord raised it. Conservatives are happy. Landleeches get money makes con man happy. They're always happy to see "growth" in the market, no one cares if you can't afford your apt. go get another ya lazy bum.
So you play the game, apply for social assistence and housing, but find you make too much for housing and social assistance, but if you need help, heres a pamflet with address and phone numbers of all the shelters and food banks in the area.
There could be a list of landlords who aren't leeches. Or there could affordable housing for everyone who needs it. But nope. Better to make people live in the filth of hastings, or when they can get away with it, in parks, except the pigs then come along to move them out. Like, instead of providing housing, they provide bulldozers, garbage trucks, and men with badges and guns, who'll beat you with a billy club if you don't react fast enough to their "orders"
Keep getting sidetracked. But that's because this issue, and yes, it's only a single simple one, has a lot of nuance and subtlety. Because I dunno how to convince people who believe something so hard, they truth would shatter their entire belief system. Like, if drumpf isn't telling the truth, what's in my bible?
I wanted to get more into the money/corpo nonsense. Because corps aren't big fans of liberals, as they tend to clamp down on SOME of the bullshit the conservatives heap on us to benifit the corpo's. So they'll do their best to influence the public to vote one way or the other. We don't have sooo much of an issue as down south with faux news, but we've still got scum news...or should I remenants. Pretty vocal ones too. ezra levant came up in my feed recently to my utter surprise. More dog whistle racist nonsense, from the racist. Can we call the cpc the racist party of canada? It's def more fitting. But the corpo's are the same. They hate liberals, not because they're good for the people, but because they can't make as much profit, because that's what the world is all about right? I mean, who cares if a "small" percentage live in squalor. That 30 nations reservations still don't have clean water. Sure, it's better than it was, but the longstanding ones, that should have been fixed by now, fuuuu
But more money for the corpo's. more money for the ultrarich. Or even just the moderaly wealthy, like only a few mil. And millionaires? I don't consider them wealthy. They're not wealthy. They have just barely enough to make the rest of their life comfortable. Something we should ALL have. But don't anymore, because successive gov'ts have eroded our basic protections, to the point where people piss in bottles, because they don't want to stop driving. Because they'll barely make enough to pay their life saving medication, and without this job, they don't have benifits, and they'll die. or worse.
But lets elect a conservative. Lets elect someone who thinks you're nothing but a stepping stone to power. A pawn to their king. IMO, at least liberals try to act more like bishops and rooks. A lot of power, but it's usually restrained. Not always, as I said before, at least paid lip service too. Could you imagine how many more people would have died during covid, had it been a con man? I did the calculations. If the US had of enacted similiar lockdowns as we did, 6 million americans would still be alive. Based on population size and number of deaths. 6 MILLION. I seem to recall someone else in history who responsible for 6 million deaths.
