COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE NATIONAL POST
I like Justin, but he keeps making serious errors, almost
certainly under the advice of advisers he should have dumped.
You cannot be viewed as fresh and promising if you keep say
some of the things he says, such as this about coalitions being back-room deals.
First, there was the disastrous press conference with Eve
Adams, a genuinely unpleasant person whose past service-station idiocy was in a
video online even as Justin spoke with her.
Then, he supported Harper’s ghastly Bill C-51. You don't
support stupid and oppressive legislation just to differentiate yourself from
the party to your left, but that is what Justin did. Just dumb.
And now, he describes coalitions as "back room
deals."
This last one is just ignorant. Half the parliamentary
governments of the world rule by coalitions. The last government of Britain,
the government of Germany, the government of Israel - and that's just for
starters.
"Back room deals" is a pejorative phrase used to
characterize something which is a normal and open in parliamentary democracies.
And that is precisely the kind of misleading expression which
might well have been written by a Harper speechwriter.
I truly dislike that kind of language, which is part of the
reason I find Stephen Harper so repellent a politician.
Sorry, Justin, but if you keep going down the road you are
going down, people simply have no reason to vote for you. It makes you sound
ideological, narrow, old-fashioned, and, yes, boring.
