@justinsutton
Raising strong daughters, spoiling good dogs, and telling stories for a cause. History grad, MSM escapee, nonprofit communicator. Art is everything. https://justindsutton.substack.com/?r=1mmpgk&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist
To better understand how we ended up living inside grievance culture, we have to come to grips with the fact that it’s the result of a long, deliberate project.
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Belief without evidence is folly.
The never ending austerity loop is the result of policy decisions sold as “for the people.” Populist slogans don’t make for good governance.
Public services are crumbling in Ontario because Doug Ford wants them to fail, not because we cant afford them. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The decay of our public institutions is the result of an ideological turn that began more than 40 years ago.
I look at how we abandoned the post-war consensus for a cutters mentality in the 1990s that prioritized the balance sheet and led to our current mess.
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The decay of our public institutions didn't happen by accident. It's the result of an ideological pivot that began more than forty years ago.
My latest piece looks at how the West traded a "builder" consensus for the logic of the market. #NeoliberalTurn
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Is there a single person who still thinks this is about immigration? It was never ever about that and you know it in your heart of hearts.
You’ve been swindled by a fetid carnival barker who’s a front for a deranged Christo-fascist movement backed by men who pray at the alter of money.
Canada, Ontario, the world, none of it is broken, which doesn’t mean there isn’t work to do, only that we need to keep our bearings when everything feels unstable and overwhelming, because losing perspective has never helped us get through the seemingly impossible
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Trying something new because posting on social media doesn't feel like enough and I need a constructive outlet.
We can affect change, together.
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Stop normalizing talk of a Trump third term by saying, “well if he can run, so can Obama.”
Third terms are not legally possible.
Fighting fascism 101 - refute their ideas, don’t expand them.
Final warning: America’s cities aren’t training grounds. Americans aren’t the enemy.
Service members swear an oath to the Constitution not to any one man. Once the line between civilian life & combat is erased, it’s nearly impossible to get it back.
This has to be stopped. 7/7
Here’s the real danger: Even if lawyers try to find a loophole, calling US cities “war zones” normalizes the idea that American neighbourhoods can be treated like battlefields. That’s how democracies slide into authoritarianism. 6/7
Ethically, this is poison.
The U.S. military is sworn to defend the nation, not be turned into a political weapon against cities or communities a president doesn’t like. 5/7
The Constitution doesn’t let a president use troops to police cities. Policing is a state/local job.
And the Bill of Rights protects citizens from exactly this kind of military control. Treating Americans like enemy combatants tramples those protections. 4/7
US law is clear: The Posse Comitatus Act bars the U.S. military from acting as domestic police. The only exception is the Insurrection Act, and that only applies in very narrow cases (like actual uprisings or when states ask for help). 3/7
Trump just told America’s top generals & admirals that U.S. cities like Chicago, LA & NY should be treated as “war zones” - even “training grounds” for the military. This is almost certainly illegal, unconstitutional & dangerous. 2/7
This is an astonishing piece of video for a few reasons. 1/7 🧵
PP’s win is not inevitable.
Let’s go Battle River - Crowfoot, support a 5th gen service member, retired after 22 years in the Canadian Army.
Bonnie Critchley actually lives and works in the riding and she’ll represent you, not a big party machine that thinks nothing of circumventing your will.
Like communists, libertarians live in a fantasy world that ignores several millennia of human nature. Specifically the bits where we stopped living in small clans and started living in complex cities and nation states.
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Gotta love the positive tag at the end. Wouldn't want to dig into the reasons too much, might be uncomfortable.
It makes me despair. Then I remember, that's what they want and I'm not prepared to give it to them.
This is alarming. There's always money for war, prisons, and tax cuts for billionaires but people doing great work that enriches lives and communities and circulates money through local economies, benefiting restaurants, hotels, shops, service providers etc. get cut. Is this how we want to live?
How can Canadians mobilize behind Sarah and make PP sweat?
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Oh, we do mind. We mind quite a lot actually. 🤯
May Day: born from the blood & hope of workers fighting for the 8-hour work day in 1886. It’s about justice, equity, & democracy from the ground up.
This year, it lands just after a major political shift. Let's all push Carney & the Liberals to meet this moment & deliver what they promised.
It doth not require it.
How exactly is a question “fake?” I will forever be boggled by the appeal of this grifter.
Could not agree more!
In my riding, NDP voters absolutely abandoned their party to back the Liberals. I appreciate all of these comments. There's a lot to parse and understand. I do stand behind being suspicious of the one-man "saviour" narrative that's emerging. No one does anything alone, as Carney himself has said.
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Thanks for this, Mandy.
