Maybe Doug Ford won't be so bad. [View all]
I've just been listening to his first press conference and like a good populist reformer, he's saying all the right things. I do confess to being skeptical, if not outright hostile to the idea of him becoming
a premier. He led a historically conservative political party, he was the brother of the last great political poseur of Ontario, and for some reason I jumped on the "He's a drug dealer..." bandwagon. Having thought about it, and mentally reviewed all the 'drug dealers' I've known over the years, I'm beginning to think that being a former drug dealer is a
good thing. Ninety-nine percent of them are People Persons; they just want to help people to feel good.
And they see the scam of 'Modern Medicine' and the reality of an unjust economy. They don't go out starting fights.
Out here in the heartland, we've had it worse. We handed over a well functioning social democracy to a bunch of Free Market ideologues 2 decades ago and they all think the wealth of the province is because of them.....you know, the 'born on third base' analogy.
We're waiting for them to fail...
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