[fvc-wat-disc] What Justin is afraid of

[Donald Fraser]

wow ... I NEVER would have thought of this !!!

On 4 December 2016 at 14:35, Eleanor Grant <eleanor7000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that young Justin was deeply impressed - even traumatized - by how
> much his father was hated in the west.  He thinks he can be a much more
> Sensitive Guy than Pierre was, and smooth things over.  He mustn't let
> anything louse up what he's delicately trying to build!
>
> When it comes to electoral reform, here's his nightmare scenario: He
> pushes through PR and it succeeds in keeping the Cons out in 2019 - then
> Con supporters produce calculations showing that with FPTP they would have
> won.  The west becomes enraged, says it's a rigged system, and starts
> rumbling about secession - and boy how they'll hate Trudeau!  The last
> thing he wants is  to be the cause of a ruptured country - he wants to be
> the Great Reconciler.
>
> What he hasn't figured out - in his bones - is that that type of Tories
> (the bullies who made death threats against Rachel Notley and recently
> chanted "lock her up") CANNOT be placated, and he's wasting all his
> political capital trying.
> Meanwhile the people who *could* have been reconciled - First Nations,
> environmentalists, BC, the NDP and Greens, Fair Vote Canada - are falling
> away and coming to deeply distrust him.
>
> I don't know what this says about potential strategies for us.  Justin may
> be an extreme example of the Achilles heel in Liberal mentality - the
> tendency to crumble before the bully pulpits of the right.  I don't know
> how we can work with that - but it's clear that doggedly presenting facts
> is ineffective when up against deep-seated fear.
>
> Eleanor
>
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