Trudeau is not representative of GenX. He was raised, groomed and told from the day he was born that he was aristocracy and sure enough made it so. The WEF creetins, plutocrats and european aristocracy all wear that same royal mask. GenX did not invent political correctness, boomers did as one of their many sociological experiments and contagions.
I'll push back on that.
When I think of Gen X, I think of people
stuck fighting the culture wars of the 90s against the conservative establishment. They didn't invent political correctness, but the Green Day generation, the 'punk' movement, the Trudeaus, the Kathleen Kennedys, the Pete Buttigegs and Beto O'Rourkes, the people in their 40s now- they
are Gen X, they are ironically in charge, and they're still shadowboxing against enemies that are no longer even really there. When you hear about "wont anyone think of the gays? The big bad church and neocons are going after them" its usually a gen Xer who really did not have a good time from the late 80s to the mid 2000s when that stuff was actually relevant. Even in terms of drug legalization, that has Gen X all over it.
The same way that millennials are angry at boomers, I'm fairly certain that the zoomers who cut off their genitals and who have to live in Khalistan north are going to be angry at Gen X for being at the reigns of current year and enabling so much of this insanity as a result of their own proclivities.
I'm sure that we'll have the same dynamic with some distant future generation when we are in charge (oh no, why did you give control to the AI instead of humans), but for Gen X, even if they didn't invent political correctness, they are an ultra narcissistic generation where the vast portion do lack critical thinking and are stuck with the same completely irrelevant political slogans that ironically do more harm than good in this age.
Drug use (even open on the streets) is a victimless crime!
Of course, we're talking about the
successful Gen X, because you are right, not all are like that, many are doing bad, many OD'd, some are conservative, etc.
But when I think of the 40 something year old managers today, the HR ladies going to pilates, the once young promising left wing politicians leading us into the apparent future, the majority of the techbro managers, theyre all largely gen x.
Boomers get enough hate, much of it deserved, but Gen X has slipped under the radar and they absolutely deserve more vitriol as a generation.
Mind you, it must have been nice to have golden opportunities shoved in your face your whole life to the point where you get so used to it that you do not act on any. Most young adults now are going to be on the Smith and Wesson retirement plan no matter what they do. There will be no happy post-ww2 style happy ending for their suffering, only a boot on the face forever thanks to massive unpayable boomer made debt.
This may come off as selfish, but other than your family, community, and the next generation- don't worry about it, don't pay for it. I unironically mean it when I say this, leave the country, or leave the province if you don't like it and can't afford to live there any longer. The ship is sailing, and whether its a million Indians, prescribed suicide instead of healthcare, the geriatric care crisis in 10 years, slumlord housing, etc- you do not have to pay into that system and it
does not deserve you paying into it.
If you do want
hope for Canada, its not in the federal system- its in the provincial system. Distancing yourself away from the Fed is what Canadian provinces will probably want to do if they want to maintain some of the older standard. If I was Alberta, Id be trying for my own energy grid, trade standards, challenging federal mandates now, etc. As it stands, Alberta already has closer trade ties with the US than other provinces- build on that.
Other than that though, I just don't see the rest of the country surviving Ontario and BC and what theyre going to likely look like over the next decade, by design. Its worse than the fisheries dying in the maritime provinces. This is collapse, mass demographic change, crime, urban desolation, drugs, etc
If you wanted a really based provincial politician, do what the Fed has failed to do. Cap international student hours, cap the amount the province lets in, change the property laws in the province to favoring citizens only, etc. Maybe you could even have effective provincial drug control. That could maybe help- though thats maybe a pipe dream. You can see how panicked the libs are that a province doesn't want to troon out kids. You're getting none of that at a federal level, however. Ontario and BC are just too powerful at a federal level for any sort of progress to happen in this country as a whole.