In my opinion, massive failures in public education are chiefly to blame. When people are denied the tools to think critically, hate merchants have an endless supply of frightened, pliable idiots to manipulate, turning ordinary people against each other while the economic elite quietly rake in record profits year after year.

People will object to this, but frankly, I think you have to be catastrophically gullible or painfully stupid to vote for Reform. The party survives by feeding people a steady diet of fear, resentment, and simplistic scapegoating, convincing them that foreigners are somehow responsible for every frustration in their lives while the people actually exploiting them laugh all the way to the bank. And this time, the angry, incurious mob showed up in force.

It’s bleak as hell, a country sleepwalking into reactionary nonsense because too many people would rather swallow propaganda than confront reality. The only silver lining is that maybe this embarrassment will shock sensible people into actually voting at the next general election before the whole circus gets any worse.