Who is John Galt?.It’s the haunting question of objectivist author Ayn Rand’s masterpiece Atlas Shrugged. Galt is the hero who transforms a dystopia where personal and financial freedom has been subsumed by statist, authoritarian politicians who strangle individual initiative in the name of the public good..Kind of sounds like Canada in 2022..Conservative Party leadership candidate MP Pierre Poilievre (CPC-Carleton) should be asking “Who is John Galt” more often and asking other questions a lot less..He’s certainly no ideological hero of mine, but former U.S. President Bill Clinton understood political campaigns and winning them. His advice might be well taken by Poilievre in the wake of the second debate last week..Clinton argued a political campaign needs to keep its message very simple — down to about three points because after that you begin to lose your audience and the messaging gets muddled..For that reason, it is a mystery to many why Poilievre is focusing on why he would fire Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem if the MP becomes prime minister..Since when have conservatives been focused on the Bank of Canada as a source of irritation? There's not even a populist surge against the bank or the governor for that matter. You really have to go back to the election of U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 1828 to find an example where anger against the policies of a national bank helped elect a candidate..But for Poilievre it seems to be an obsession and he is running a risk of derailing his campaign by looking like he is deliberately trying to politicize an office that has never really been a source of partisanship — unlike the Supreme Court, which yes, has justices which reflect the political biases of the prime minister who appoints them. Unless he's a conservative like former Prime Minister Stephen Harper who foolishly did not appoint sufficiently conservative justices to the court..Poilievre is already facing the resistance of the conservative establishment that views him as too young, too populist, too dangerous, too opinionated, too strident, too conservative. That establishment is so eagerly backing former Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest that it's embarrassingly obvious..They obviously won’t be throwing their support to MP Leslyn Lewis (CPC-Haldimand-Norfolk), a social conservative who is even less woke than Poilievre and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown simply is not a credible candidate given his mercurial policy positions and habit for disappointing the grassroots..Poilievre is also apparently wedded to crypto-currency. Again this is not a bad thing but it is an issue that is not exactly a vote getter with many Conservatives or Canadians. It's doubtful more than 20% of the population understands how crypto works..The danger is Poilievre is going to end up spending most of his time explaining why he wants to fire Macklem and why he favors crypto while Charest will end up looking like the candidate who wants to talk about the issues that Canadians understand..This is always how the establishment conservatives put their man into the leadership and Poilievre must be aware of this. He shouldn’t be allowing the party bosses to make this easier for them..It’s not that Poilievre doesn’t have the issues at his disposal. His rallies demonstrate his opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s authoritarianism are resonating deeply with voters. If you don’t believe it, just have a look at social media every time he is speaking to an audience. The same halfwits and Trudeau acolytes take to Twitter and claim there is a Ku Klux Klan meeting going on because they can offer nothing but the usual race card claptrap — just like their leader does when he faces opposition..Poilievre needs to hammer the freedom message. Freedom from the Emergencies Act. Freedom from censorship. Freedom from disinformation boards. Freedom from regulations. Freedom from having your bank account frozen and your life destroyed because you engaged in a protest. Freedom from fear of saying the wrong thing or using the wrong gender pronoun. Freedom from offending the wrong person. Freedom from a bought-off media..Instead of worrying about Macklem’s employment, he should never miss an opportunity to say “Defund the CBC and all media” because Conservatives and an increasing number of Canadians are sick to their stomachs of state media telling them what to think and how they are supposed to view the world. .Instead of trying to explain crypto-currency, Poilievre needs to talk about creating wealth, slashing regulations and freeing the workforce..The Liberal-NDP alliance are committing political suicide and are in a sort of slow motion Götterdämmerung that is seeing their support shrink by the day as Liberals become peeved with being joined at the hip with socialists and New Democrats are furious with being fused with Liberal elitists and an even more elitist leader in Jagmeet Singh. They are losing the blue collar and immigrant vote because they have nothing but contempt for the people and their outmoded ideas..The late, great U.S. President Ronald Reagan understood the appeal of conservative politics like no other political leader. He viscerally comprehended that people voted conservative because it was a positive force in their lives: it was about freedom, productivity, liberty, movement, flexibility, thought, choosing, destiny and taking back our lives. That is what Poilievre needs to remember as he continues to campaign for CPC leader. Trudeau and Singh are taking all of these things away from us. Charest will do no better. He worked for China, for God’s sake..We need a new birth of freedom in Canada — to remember the eloquence of Abraham Lincoln — and that’s what Poilievre’s campaign must be all about.
Who is John Galt?.It’s the haunting question of objectivist author Ayn Rand’s masterpiece Atlas Shrugged. Galt is the hero who transforms a dystopia where personal and financial freedom has been subsumed by statist, authoritarian politicians who strangle individual initiative in the name of the public good..Kind of sounds like Canada in 2022..Conservative Party leadership candidate MP Pierre Poilievre (CPC-Carleton) should be asking “Who is John Galt” more often and asking other questions a lot less..He’s certainly no ideological hero of mine, but former U.S. President Bill Clinton understood political campaigns and winning them. His advice might be well taken by Poilievre in the wake of the second debate last week..Clinton argued a political campaign needs to keep its message very simple — down to about three points because after that you begin to lose your audience and the messaging gets muddled..For that reason, it is a mystery to many why Poilievre is focusing on why he would fire Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem if the MP becomes prime minister..Since when have conservatives been focused on the Bank of Canada as a source of irritation? There's not even a populist surge against the bank or the governor for that matter. You really have to go back to the election of U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 1828 to find an example where anger against the policies of a national bank helped elect a candidate..But for Poilievre it seems to be an obsession and he is running a risk of derailing his campaign by looking like he is deliberately trying to politicize an office that has never really been a source of partisanship — unlike the Supreme Court, which yes, has justices which reflect the political biases of the prime minister who appoints them. Unless he's a conservative like former Prime Minister Stephen Harper who foolishly did not appoint sufficiently conservative justices to the court..Poilievre is already facing the resistance of the conservative establishment that views him as too young, too populist, too dangerous, too opinionated, too strident, too conservative. That establishment is so eagerly backing former Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest that it's embarrassingly obvious..They obviously won’t be throwing their support to MP Leslyn Lewis (CPC-Haldimand-Norfolk), a social conservative who is even less woke than Poilievre and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown simply is not a credible candidate given his mercurial policy positions and habit for disappointing the grassroots..Poilievre is also apparently wedded to crypto-currency. Again this is not a bad thing but it is an issue that is not exactly a vote getter with many Conservatives or Canadians. It's doubtful more than 20% of the population understands how crypto works..The danger is Poilievre is going to end up spending most of his time explaining why he wants to fire Macklem and why he favors crypto while Charest will end up looking like the candidate who wants to talk about the issues that Canadians understand..This is always how the establishment conservatives put their man into the leadership and Poilievre must be aware of this. He shouldn’t be allowing the party bosses to make this easier for them..It’s not that Poilievre doesn’t have the issues at his disposal. His rallies demonstrate his opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s authoritarianism are resonating deeply with voters. If you don’t believe it, just have a look at social media every time he is speaking to an audience. The same halfwits and Trudeau acolytes take to Twitter and claim there is a Ku Klux Klan meeting going on because they can offer nothing but the usual race card claptrap — just like their leader does when he faces opposition..Poilievre needs to hammer the freedom message. Freedom from the Emergencies Act. Freedom from censorship. Freedom from disinformation boards. Freedom from regulations. Freedom from having your bank account frozen and your life destroyed because you engaged in a protest. Freedom from fear of saying the wrong thing or using the wrong gender pronoun. Freedom from offending the wrong person. Freedom from a bought-off media..Instead of worrying about Macklem’s employment, he should never miss an opportunity to say “Defund the CBC and all media” because Conservatives and an increasing number of Canadians are sick to their stomachs of state media telling them what to think and how they are supposed to view the world. .Instead of trying to explain crypto-currency, Poilievre needs to talk about creating wealth, slashing regulations and freeing the workforce..The Liberal-NDP alliance are committing political suicide and are in a sort of slow motion Götterdämmerung that is seeing their support shrink by the day as Liberals become peeved with being joined at the hip with socialists and New Democrats are furious with being fused with Liberal elitists and an even more elitist leader in Jagmeet Singh. They are losing the blue collar and immigrant vote because they have nothing but contempt for the people and their outmoded ideas..The late, great U.S. President Ronald Reagan understood the appeal of conservative politics like no other political leader. He viscerally comprehended that people voted conservative because it was a positive force in their lives: it was about freedom, productivity, liberty, movement, flexibility, thought, choosing, destiny and taking back our lives. That is what Poilievre needs to remember as he continues to campaign for CPC leader. Trudeau and Singh are taking all of these things away from us. Charest will do no better. He worked for China, for God’s sake..We need a new birth of freedom in Canada — to remember the eloquence of Abraham Lincoln — and that’s what Poilievre’s campaign must be all about.
