cranky again

Oh I do sometimes have to acknowledge my profound stupidity about Socialism. I certainly basically understood it to be at its heart a great levelling where wealth was evenly distributed from the rich to the poor. That has always been the theory that always seems to have failed catastrophically with millions dead by the end of it. The “it’s going to be different this time,” has never worked. So I don’t quite get this country’s direction at all. It seems that the middle class and the poor are paying for everything while the rich get richer. In fact the poor are paying for the rich to do so.

It boggles my silly mind I guess. Luxury taxes on yachts and private jets are dropped while a 10% tax is levelled on canned vegetables. Developers and banks in Vancouver’s condo market are bailed out by the government because they can’t sell them at the price they want or need. The middle class losing their houses are given no such help? Maybe the government could buy their houses. That’s the plan anyway, isn’t it. Socialized housing.

Nobody owns anything but the elite in their offshore accounts, flying their jets, eating their caviar and living in their castles? All of this activity simply explains how little the ruling class cares about the majority of people here. We’re like flies buzzing about their monumental heads. “Just swat them and they’ll go away,” I’m sure they think. “They’re too stupid to understand,” I would say is their mantra about the people they are supposed to represent.

I think they forgot that we are one of the most highly educated countries in the world. And we also have a grounding in practicality the ruling class has no concept of really. We would have seen some of these problems, in fact did see some of the problems long before they happened. e.g. We wouldn’t have allowed the purchase of a fleet of EV buses in Edmonton that could not operate in the cold. We could have told them. We wouldn’t have spent millions on cricket farms that went basically defunct. We would have filled the fields with food instead of bird-killing windmills. We would have shooed away the elite for their silly utopian ideals in order to actually survive and thrive. A managed decline, well, maybe it is necessary but it certainly should be equal over class.

And we would have explained what was happening to a public that deserved, by virtue of taxes paid, to know. According to Bill Gates and other august bodies, it ain’t the environment. It is entirely possible that if the news we don’t know is so bad, it is the elite and not the people who will panic. In fact, I believe that is what is happening. And well they should. They have a lot of explaining to do. If they can stoop to such levels.