It’s important to read the resumes of those you hire. In Smith’s case, she went from university to agitprop then to radio shock jock before politics.

In other words, all she’s ever done is blahblahblah persuasion and rhetoric. She’s never been employed making anything other than misinformation and wealth for the wealthy.

She’s a trained professional… liar.

Not surprisingly, another Albertan great deceptor with an empty resume runs the national rich-get-richer party.

Well yes, but it’s a big spectrum right? Most workplaces are authoritarian so we have habituated. A shitty boss who schedules you badly is not a slave owner. The cons are pro-oligarch, believing that merit is demonstrated by wealth and sometimes breeding. All the parties accept a monarchy even a bit, sorry Bloc, and have a traditional leadership structure so some authoritarian tendencies are everywhere.

Conservative parties throughout history have trended toward either aristocratic stratification and sometimes despotic populism. It’s not even close, and disingenuous to both-sides it. Tankies would be the closest comparison.

Kinda?! There are many democracies, it’s a big old subject with a lot of propaganda.

E.G. some argue (not me exactly but I am idiot) that proportional representation is still part democracy and part authoritarian, as elitism and corruption are enabled by having career politicians and power behind closed doors. So in that argument everyone has to represent themselves equally in matters of group power to be democratic. Pretty much a synonym for anarchy in the political, not idiomatic sense. It requires enormous organizational skill though.

So the best we seem to be able to maybe pull off is some kind of balancing act, managing authority like our teutonic overlords the house of Windsor, to real power on Bay St. and Ottawa. Mixing that with the long history of common law, which needs refurbishing, and something where votes are not discarded.

So I guess proportional representation is good enough eh, maybe shore up the Bill of Rights a little too. Pragmatism and compassion is how we represent ourselves, so let’s do it.

I find the tagging system in lemmy more useful every day!

I’m sorry, did you just… oh lol never mind. I’m going to harvest this whoosh for wind power.