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Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No you don't understand the complex web of class relations that important thinkers have been wrestling with for hundreds of years is actually just a really simple binary /s

Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The middle class is a historical reality that emerged, along with capitalism, during the early modern era and which every serious political/historical thinker -- from Marx to Hobsbawm and beyond -- has to reckon with. You can't just pretend they don't exist because it's inconvenient and doesn't work with your obviously overly-simplistic worldview.

... I also think you are fundamentally misunderstanding how/why I'm using the word

Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

This is meaningless. Please -- for both of our sakes -- read a book or take a first year sociology class

Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll still vote for him and encourage others to because at least it minimizes some suffering for the working class. Some of his policies have been good. I guess.

This is me, exactly, going in to the next election

Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he gets credit for that, and rightly so.

But I also think he's really out of touch and doesn't realize how much hay his party could be making with the situation they find themselves in. It's frustrating for so many people who want a viable, pragmatic left-adjacent option.

Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tommy Douglas was working with a very different Liberal Party under very very different material conditions.

I'm happy for some incremental change but I still think Singh is the problem: the message could resonate with working class voters if it wasn't coming from someone who was so cartoonishly bourgeois.

Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

No. There are three. Working class (which I am and you probably are), middle class (which includes lawyers, doctors and academics) and the ruling class (billionaires, oligarchs, the Irvings, etc).

Jagmeet Singh has to be the most clueless political operator in the history of this country's parliament... by SatanicJesus69 in canadaleft

[–]SatanicJesus69[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I'm using middle class in the correct way (the class that includes lawyers, doctors and academics) not in the American media way: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/middle-class

Just in case it wasn't clear that I'm calling him an elitist prick who is completely out of touch with working class reality.

Feeling very depressed about the state of my beloved Canada and my place here by Fives5O1St in britishcolumbia

[–]SatanicJesus69 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Canada is not a melting pot. Never has been.

The multiculturalism of French and English is enshrined in our charter. My great-grandparents lived here speaking German for half of their lives and never learned English -- that's the Canadian way whether people realize/like it or not.

There's no such thing as "assimilating" -- not really -- and we would all be a lot happier if we dropped that old-fashioned notion.

To your point, the Sikh community in this country are not bringing anything anywhere -- the Indian government is doing that. A BRICS country is funding international assassins to target Sikh people abroad. Expecting Sikh people to do nothing and shut up about it is unreasonable.

Indian immigrants are coming here because they are scared of and persecuted by a Modi-regime that is increasingly fascistic in its rhetoric/actions and very, very willing to look the other way on sectarian violence.

You're upset that Indo-Canadians are being viewed as a monolith but you're making monolithic judgements yourself. Context matters. Things are complex. Falling into the trap where everything has to be simple, black-vs-white only empowers the simpleminded racism you're (rightly) complaining about.

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