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Every leader has an expiry date, this happens towards the end of almost every PM’s time in office. Sooner or later even their supporters realize they have too much baggage.
This is nothing new.
My father says the same thing, regimes tend to last around a decade, and then to die out.
Most PMs haven't had an "opposition" party that does nothing but lie down and mindlessly enable everything he does, though. At this point Trudeau could probably stream himself stabbing Singh's wife in the throat and he'd still go along with any legislation his master puts in front of him.
I actually hope Trudeau wins the next election, with an even greater discrepancy between the popular vote and the seat tally. The only way anything is going to get legitimately solved is by having more people understand that throwing gravel and honking horns just isn't enough anymore.
This is a symptom unique to Canada, among most first past the post systems. All parties go for the center,
the Canadian center just tends to be so monogamous and milquetoast, it makes all major parties act the same.
Make no mistake, this is a feature, not a bug- but the biggest problem is that things are slow to change, people (and thus politicians) are slower to react, and overall any sort of course change is going to be
moderate.
When you are in much more desperate or disparaging times, this is a very dangerous system feature- because we do need much more radical change, because the nation is grievously wounded right now and the center cannot hold the fringes any longer.
The other issue there is that the "center" has an inverse thing of the American "every poor man thinks he has a chance of becoming a billionaire".
Every Canadian
thinks that theyre a natural part of the progressive cabal, regardless of socioeconomic position, when their interests really should lie elsewhere- so that is the demographic that all three major parties appeal to in one shade or another. "slightly more progressive center, the slightly 'convervative' center, etc"
Southern Ontario, with its major cities in close proximity, could've been apart of a more idealized "American" style Western culture with a Canadian twist. Instead it's been deconstructed into European-style ghetto enclaves next to McMansions with awful road infrastructure
The little apple used to be that, but Id place it as Chicago, but with less Italians and crime and a more moderate, but ironically corrupt, elite.
Think relatively, Chicago and much of the rust belt mega cities are the same. I guess our difference is that our problems are from South India and elsewhere, and Chiraqs are, well...
Anyways, been really contemplating life in Leafland lately. With some of the cards stacked against me, it would be easier, cheaper, less effort and less painful to end it than watch the ongoing deconstruction. I'm not sure I want to experience whatever hell develops in the next few years and I definitely won't get out of the province or the country anytime soon. Feels bad man.
Thats one option, or internal migration. Honestly, get out of big cities, or find ways to insulate yourself within them if youre not happy in them. If you are, fair enough- rural living has its own problems as well.
