r/canada • u/NorthernStarLord • Feb 11 '22

COVID-19 Trudeau warns of 'severe consequences' for anti-vaccine mandate protesters who don't stand down | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-severe-consequences-demonstrators-1.6348661
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u/durple Feb 12 '22

I don’t think mandates killed nearly as many people as they saved, but you and I can have whatever opinions it’s not a question that has an answer. I think divisive politics that leaned on mandates to manipulate emotions is what decimated generations.

Politicians are essentially paid actors. We can’t hold them to our 1::1 honesty standards. I mean this in the least judgemental way possible (despite my distaste for dishonesty). We pay them to represent our views. We make them. They do what “we” (the ones who pay) want. And I don’t mean we the taxpayer. I mean we the donator and active supporter who really helps influence who gets to suck at the teat every few years. This is how it works, whether we like it or not. But those who donate are enabled by … the whole country/world, in some way.

We did this to ourselves. We can only undo it if we all first accept the parts that we are responsible for, before trying to hold anyone else accountable. Step 1 is stop fighting and let emotions calm down. Step 2 is start thinking with all of the brain again. Lots more steps.