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

[Jon Bathmaker]

Interesting perspective, Eleanor.

I think that JT is well on his way to becoming the pale Obama, even 
better looking but still the same old campaign from the left, govern 
from the right strategy that has been the Liberal trademark forever.   
His historical function (whether he knows it or not) is to enact PR.  
I'm thinking he could be PM of a Liberal minority Government for quite a 
long time if he did that.

Best,

Best,
Jon
*The Climate is no longer just a Crisis  . . .  it's a FREAKING EMERGENCY*

On 12/4/2016 2:35 PM, Eleanor Grant 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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