I realized something. Was this cartoon telling me the opposite of what I interpreted? That Canada's going the way of the USA?
Well, I've read more and I seems to be.
But I had an epiphany.....folks hear me out.
But of the success of the Far-Right has been casting Progressives as out-of-touch & elitist. We are seen as rich city-folk or hippies or nerdy college professors and not as average, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth, Joe Q. American/Canadian, the farmers, laborers, etc.
We as Progressives need to wrap ourselves in the flags, embrace the patriotic symbols and acknowledge, honor, respect & truly reflect "The Common Person". We need to be relatable to "Blue Collar Farmer Brown".
You see, it's not just bigotry that causes people to vote stupidly, it's the whole fear of the "Out-of-touch Liberal Elitist". For effective change, you need to be relatable to the masses.
We need to be relatable to the masses....reach out to them....try to understand them....not dismiss them as morons & rejects from
Deliverance. Many GOPers, NeoCon voters, Bible-butts & Teabaggers are really just otherwise decent regular Americans who perhaps are a bit misguided. To dismiss them all as idiots and make fun of them is stupid. Yes, there are psychotic hardliners but there are also hard-working farmers & other laborers and dear old Grannies. It's just that being old-fashioned & undereducated kind of made them Teabag material.
If we can befriend & reach out to them, find some sort of understanding, we can unite America, Left & Right, and put the Far-Right out to pasture. Same for Canada.
As for me, I will stay here in this glorious land of E PLURIBUS UNUM and fight to take it back!
I know that the Machine has far more money than the Progs but we Progs can find a way to make more with less. Money means nothing! We will be to politics like
The Blair Witch Project was to 1990's horror cinema. We may see the film as dorky & cliche, now but back then, it was groundbreaking & genuinely chilling....and it was just a cheap indie flick made with a camcorder & a budget reported between the $20,000-$700,000 range. They didn't need big bucks to make a terrifying horror blockbuster.
We are the Progressives....we can improvise, innovate & make do with less. We have the Internet & Internet radio. We are the innovators and thinkers outside of boxes. We are the compassionate and we need to turn our compassion to even those on the other side of the fence. We need to limit our barbs to the LEADERS of the Far-Right but we must be welcoming, understanding & compassionate towards their followers.
We need to be for The Common Person.....because we are.