I absolutely *hate* it when Canadian politics gets “interesting”. Usually it ends badly. Sigh. 😔

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There is a reason “May you live in interesting times” is a curse and not a blessing! 

I have intentionally been ignoring the news here. I know nothing can get worse until he officially takes office in a month so giving myself this last few weeks to make some headspace to deal with that dark upcoming reality.

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Lying is the most important tool of politicians. There is no way they will ever be separated from that. 

The difference, it seems, as fascism takes hold, is that there is no longer any kind of accountability when they are caught in lies. They can just make up reality to fit their biases unchallenged and convince the willingly uncritical that they are telling the truth to get them to hand them more power. 

And even worse, we have no good source of reliable facts anymore. I would say part of that is because AI is so good at faking things, but even without that, there is no objective media anymore. You can’t trust their editorializing and can barely trust their reporting because it has lies of omission or is spun to bias. So staying informed about reality is almost impossible too.

We just have to focus on our own survival and survival of our loved ones at this point. Eventually the pendulum will swing back to a more equitable situation, but we are going to have to endure a lot of pain before that.

A part of why the 🇨🇦 political drama is so unsettling is because of Trump. Because we need to be strong as a country and not fighting amongst ourselves. Or else we’ll just go the same way as 🇺🇸. Actually it’s probable that we will, anyway, so I should try to ignore it but it’s hard. 😔 If only we had a law forbidding elected officials from intentionally lying to the public.