There are bloggers who care. Some will even suppress that overwhelming desire to write about themselves and write lovingly of their country. They are often concerned liberals and progressives. They worry that all political parties are travelling a road to sameness, to the right and to greed and to uncaring. The only advice you can give these disillusioned progressives is that there is still hope. Somewhere in that vast, growing pile of horse manure in Ottawa, there has to be a pony!
One of the better blog writers wrote the other day asking his fellow bloggers to “Define ‘Progressive’?” He claims that Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau have no right to the ‘Progressive’ label. He feels that “progressivism is about policies and platforms that advance quite focused objectives, goals.” The only advice that you can be given is that there is always hope. To give up, to resign to misery, to just be a curmudgeon and deny your striving is to deny your existence, your worth.
Sure, the stones and slurs of fellow Liberals are the unkindest cuts. You can handle that. You are bigger than that. The scoffing of conservatives is but a minor irritant. And where is the Waffle that once so brilliantly pricked the smugness of New Democrats? Yet those who stand firm on the left of the political spectrum can still stand proud, heads high, seeing the future and it will be ours. Not just because we care; because mankind has to care. It is for human survival on this home earth.
It was almost 50 years ago that this country put its faith in Pierre Trudeau for all the wrong reasons. And we did the best we could for our country when we supported him. Today, we are asking that people put their faith in Justin Trudeau for different reasons. He is not an ideologue. He is not an intellect. What he can be is a conduit for our beliefs, for our aspirations and a better future. He is a leader and he cares.
Together—Justin Trudeau, along with the progressives, left wingers, visionaries and people who care about our country and its environment have to make the commitment to build the coalition that will take on the challenges of the 21st Century. We can take up the ‘Just Society’ of Pierre Trudeau and nurture the caring society that is Canada.
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