The defining act of the Downtown Consensus
CharlesAnthony @ Sat Aug 04, 2018 9:12 am
martin14 martin14:
CharlesAnthony CharlesAnthony:
Pardon me for interrupting your conversation with yourself but the trolls succeeded at derailing your thread. I am having trouble reading it.
Could you give us the Cole's Notes version?
What used to the Laurentian Consensus, the idea that Quebec and Ontario rule Canada,Could you give us the Cole's Notes version?
has changed to an urban consensus, where you control the country only by taking the
urban/suburban ridings in an election.
Fuck the farmers and small town dweebs, they count for nothing.
Therefore, pandering to femnazis, immigrants, and the LGBTP vote is enough.
You saved me a lot of reading. If that is the Opening Poster's point, then it seems like he has caught on to the reality of the situation and discovered the wheel. There is nothing new under the sun.
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Martins comments above also suggest that he thinks it’s unnatural for feminists, immigrants or LGBTQ people to have any say or vote and therefore he thinks any party that includes them or their concerns must be part of said sinister worldwide plot.
Really? Okee dokee.
Individualist @ Tue Aug 07, 2018 10:58 am
CharlesAnthony CharlesAnthony:
Thank you for the summary! Mucho appreciando!
You saved me a lot of reading. If that is the Opening Poster's point, then it seems like he has caught on to the reality of the situation and discovered the wheel.
You saved me a lot of reading. If that is the Opening Poster's point, then it seems like he has caught on to the reality of the situation and discovered the wheel.
I’m guessing you would have added something about Agenda 21.
CharlesAnthony @ Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:22 am
Individualist Individualist:
CharlesAnthony CharlesAnthony:
Thank you for the summary! Mucho appreciando!
You saved me a lot of reading. If that is the Opening Poster's point, then it seems like he has caught on to the reality of the situation and discovered the wheel.
I’m guessing you would have added something about Agenda 21.You saved me a lot of reading. If that is the Opening Poster's point, then it seems like he has caught on to the reality of the situation and discovered the wheel.
Individualist @ Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:39 pm
CharlesAnthony CharlesAnthony:
Individualist Individualist:
CharlesAnthony CharlesAnthony:
Thank you for the summary! Mucho appreciando!
You saved me a lot of reading. If that is the Opening Poster's point, then it seems like he has caught on to the reality of the situation and discovered the wheel.
I’m guessing you would have added something about Agenda 21.You saved me a lot of reading. If that is the Opening Poster's point, then it seems like he has caught on to the reality of the situation and discovered the wheel.
He did a good job there. The only thing I would have added is that the theory didn’t really pan out, at least not fully. If it had, Adam Vaughan would be a cabinet minister, and the federal government wouldn’t have declared Boeing an enemy of the state. Toronto has a good reason to be super pissed at Bombardier (thanks David Miller), and a “Downtown Consensus” party would have factored that in.
Individualist @ Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:36 am
Speaking of Vaughan, I’ve enjoyed watching him lose his shit on Twitter over Ford’s plans for Toronto’s council. Like Keesmaat, he wants Toronto to become a city state. He doesn’t seem to think any other Canadian city deserves that honour though. A mayoral candidate can be forgiven for this type of parochialism and exceptionalism. An MP representating the governing federal party? Not so much. Although perhaps being a federal Liberal has broadened his perspective in one sense. He’s viewing the entirety of Canada outside Toronto with the same sneering contempt he once reserved for the GTA. A true “Centre of the Universe” Torontonian.