(06-07-2023, 06:31 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote:(06-07-2023, 05:24 PM)ac3r Wrote: Hard to imagine what's worse, though: Chapman holding influence over local government or over provincial government? It's a lose/lose situation.
Well even if she does win the seat she'd still be effectively powerless, the Ford government will still have a majority government so it's not like it would change what is currently happening with regards to the provincial policy, Ford will still push for the Bradford Bypass and the 413, make his developer buddies rich and everything he has done over the last year. As much as I hate Chapman I'd much rather her in the provincial government where she can't really do anything than have to deal with her comments at the local level. Hopefully if she does win it would mean a more progressive leader for Ward 9 which is something that is definitely needed.
I worry this is shortsighted, though. Let's say the NDP somehow got into power next week - or she became Premier, somehow. Now imagine the sort of nonsense policies she would push for if at the local level she hates everything and everyone besides what she and her selfish husband own and control.
To me it doesn't matter if she's sitting on the backbench or making all the decisions because she has a toxic, regressive, shortsighted, racist + classist, anti-progressive ideology she wants to see through. I mean Donald Trump used to be both centrist and Democrat until becoming a useful idiot for the post-fascist movement and now he's being indicted for stealing nuclear documents and war plans against Iran.
People are governed by beliefs - theological, ideological, philosophical - and you have to analyze that. Even if she hasn't come out and said "yeah I love Ayn Rand and David Hume" it's easy enough to tell she's a very conservative person who is abusing the power of being in office - and abusing parties/ideologies (namely, those which lean left) in order to further her own conservative agenda. She is the antithesis of what the New Democratic Party is supposed to stand for and if she somehow runs for them...wow. I guess I'll all in on the Rhinoceros Party or something.
I don't know. I guess this really pisses me off especially because I am an egoist anarchist but vote NDP as they're the lesser of all evils to choose from. It's why I despise politics...it never serves the majority of people any good, but if I have to choose who fucks us the hardest I'll go with the more gentle one - the NDP in this case. But Champan needs to retire. This old hag no business in politics.