• IninewCrow
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    956 days ago

    I respect Charlie Angus because he has made a career for speaking up for the little guy, the minority and especially Indigenous Canadians.

    He’s right on this point … any time a politician speaks, we have to hold them accountable for everything they say, suggest, imply or state outright. They don’t tease or speak off the cuff … everything they say is significant, even if it is from an idiot politician like Turnip.

    And we all have a responsibility to call them out on their statements at every instance. If we allow them to overstep once, then they’ll take a step further and if we allow that next step, they’ll take another step again and on and on.

    It’s the argument of the slippery slope … allow things to move a bit and its easy to stop … if you allow it to go on too much, too far and too fast … then it is far too difficult to stop.

    • @[email protected]
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      396 days ago

      I wish there was accountability. If you call them out, they gaslight, dodge, lie, etc. They found it’s easier to exhaust their critics than be truthful ever.

      • Blaster M
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        206 days ago

        I believe this is a cliff, sir.

    • @kat_angstrom
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      46 days ago

      We need a democratic method that can be used by the public to oust a politician when they no longer serve the needs of the public.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 days ago

        We need a public that willingly participates in that method.

        When half of the electorate stays home, this is the kind of bullshit you end up with.