Voters decimated the Liberal party leaving them with only 7 seats last night.

Voters exercised democracy and kicked the bums out.

Except they weren’t all bums. Many were smart people doing stupid things.

Maybe the bums were evil? This is wrong also.

We miss the point by blaming Liberal defeat on ignorance or malevolence. Accusations blind us.

The point of history is not to see how crazy and evil people were before us. That just makes us knowledgeable and arrogant.

History only teaches us if we can imagine making the same mistakes ourselves. Continue reading “What Can We Learn from the Liberal Circus?”

Andrea Horwath and her fellow New Democrats march as champions of compassion.

As Ontario’s far-left party, the NDP try to own social justice.

Horwath and company separate the needy from those of us who caused the need. They use a simple strategy:

I. Make a clear call for more compassion.

II. Self identify as champions of compassion.

III. Define compassion as they see it and according to their own vision.

IV. Label anyone who disagrees as compassionless.

The NDP starts with a statement we all support then claims this moral high ground as their very own. All their ideas are compassionate, because they themselves are compassionate. Those who disagree are compassionless.

Horwath uses a narrow slice of morality to trump everything else. She redefines fairness/cheating and holds a peculiar sense of liberty/oppression. Then she ignores loyalty, authority or any other social principle.

Divisive

Horwath presents well but only means well for certain people. She divides us into sheep and goats, victims and oppressors. Continue reading “Andrea Horwath – Radicalism Disguised as Compassion”

After 14 years of government planning and activism, Ontario healthcare is a mess.

The ideal political healthcare platform should offer help. It should not take control.

We need public servants, not public leaders. The ideal healthcare platform would tell us what government promises it will never do.

We need to know that government will never tell doctors how to treat patients; that it will stay out of doctors’ and nurses’ way.

Let doctors and nurses figure out what patients need.

Creativity and innovation applied by thousands of doctors and nurses on the front lines of care would crush the performance of any plan devised by brilliant people at Queens Park. Continue reading “Thank God Doug Ford Doesn’t Have Another Plan for Healthcare”