Hammering Trudeau won't build a better house

Hammering Trudeau doesn’t get the job done. Squarely facing the realities of our times does.

I get a kick out of how Canadian media outlets and pundits like to hammer Justin Trudeau into the ground every chance they get. Not that he doesn’t deserve it, he does. He has proven his incompetence too many times, has become a laughing stock to governments around the world, grist for talk show hosts, and the butt of every joke in every coffee house across the nation .

Keith Davy who was the “rainmaker” for the Liberal party in the time of the father Pierre Eliot Trudeau, had 10 rules for practicing for politicians; one of which was that when people starting laughing at you it is time to resign and move on— in other words the “best before” date is long gone. In those days there were cabinet ministers who actually resigned on matters of principle.

Keith Davey and Pierre Eliot Trudeau

The mainstream media has the very bad habit of chipping around the edges, spewing out banalities, and rarely going to the heart of the matter. It habitually deals with symptoms rather than the disease and the truths of the disease. The public ends up short changed because in our societies, news is vapid infotainment, stripped of the context that gives it real meaning and makes it truly informative. The blatant propaganda and grand distortions are whole other issues. The media is the venal mouthpiece for ruinous ideologies it covers for, especially in time of war .

Justin Trudeau’s arrival in the PMO was far from promising as his arrival there was bought with his father’s name. Even though he was a mediocre MP he was the champion of a beleaguered Liberal party and they saw his name as the road to heaven, event though there were warnings he was not equal to the task. While his father was well qualified and well prepared for high office the son was a half-baked political dilettante, who ran for office on a whim, not a mission .

Just prior to his leadership Peter C. Newman wrote his definitive book on the woes of the Liberal party. I am left to wonder if the son actually read this book. If he did he might have been mentored as a much more resolute and effective prime minister. Even then he was known as not being amenable to the advice of senior party officials.

Politics today isn’t just about incompetent and corrupted politicians. It is about the systemic collapse of democracy and the integrity of political parties. It is about the ruinous ideologies that have captured politics undermining the pillars of our societies.

It matters not who is elected as Canadian prime minister, or US president. Politicians today are in corporate capture, mere errand boys for the neoliberal, predatory capitalist, imperialist, militarist ideologies controlling our societies, making direct attacks on democratic rights, freedoms and values turning them inside out in service to their self-serving despotism, weaponizing even the rule of law to their service.

The dereliction of the Western media and its betrayal is a big reason we are in the mess we are today, decades of deceit and odious propaganda.

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.-- John Rockefeller

The Canadian media complains over its diminishing stature when it is simply not getting the job done. People are tired of being lied to and propagandized by pay check journalists and editors with their bloody red pencils.

Canada and the US are very much merged countries, where Canada the colony chose to be a mimic of the empire next door. Now our respective political systems are merged in collapse, victims of ill-chosen ideologies, collapsed democracies, and drowning in the psychoses of too many wars.

The world is now going through a time of tremendous transition and change and the the only language the failing West can speak is more war and more repression; and the mainstream media shamelessly becomes an agent to criminal warfare and genocide.

Politicians are tutored by corporate lobbyists and partisan think tanks when they should hold counsel with the scholars and sages available in universities and seasoned diplomats who actually have an understanding of geopolitics.

Government and the media in the West have fallen on hard times. It is a long road back. The moral and intellectual sloth is palpable.

Where are the politicians who should be speaking for peace?

Where are the editorialists who should be speaking for peace?

Hammering Justin Trudeau doesn’t get the job done. Squarely facing the realities of our times does.