Juno News - November 19, 2022


What happened to the left in Canada？

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Margaret Thatcher Hillary Clinton Tony Blair Brahmin
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Length

2 minutes

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170.34

Word count

474

Sentence count

27

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2

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What s happened to the left in Canada? How did the old left lose their moral compass? What s happening to the new left? How has Canada s left lost its moral compass and what is the role of the Brahmin Left?

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00:00:00.000 What's happened to the left in Canada? How did they lose their moral compass? From my point of
00:00:04.800 view, whether you agree or not with the ideology of the old left, I used to find that they were
00:00:11.120 at least a bit more honest in speaking up for what they believed in. But all of that seems to have
00:00:16.400 gone out the window. What's going on in Canada's left? Well, it's part of a broader international
00:00:22.160 trend. And you can associate this with Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, right? It was called the third
00:00:28.040 way that they decided that the old politics weren't working and largely it wasn't working
00:00:33.860 for them, right? Like having the working class as your constituency wasn't propelling them to 0.79
00:00:39.160 political power, in part because the working class, you know, I think it was someone associated
00:00:45.920 with Margaret Thatcher who said this. She said the working class had spoken. And primarily what it
00:00:50.920 was saying is they didn't want to be working class anymore. That we're talking about people who aspire
00:00:57.060 to social mobility, right? So Margaret Thatcher, a good example, selling council houses for people 1.00
00:01:03.020 to buy privately, right? No longer like being assigned your housing by the government, you know,
00:01:08.340 have your own house, they're on the property ladder, all of those things. Most of the people in the
00:01:13.140 working class found that very attractive. So the left needed a new constituency. The working class
00:01:18.740 doesn't want to be working class in a sense, right? Or they don't want to be poor at the very least,
00:01:23.060 right? They want to improve themselves in various ways. Maybe they're still going to be working for a
00:01:26.720 living, but they don't want to be defined by alienation and deprivation the way the left
00:01:31.360 would have it. So now the shift became towards with the third way towards what they called the
00:01:37.900 Brahmin left. So the natural constituency now, and it's very obvious in the United Kingdom,
00:01:44.000 where there's still really incisive political journalism, is what's called the professional
00:01:48.780 managerial class. It's that class of people with their distinct interests who are looking to the
00:01:55.300 Social Democratic Party to advocate for them. So whenever you're seeing, you know, the NDP or the
00:02:01.300 Labour Party pushing for more restrictions, pushing for more bureaucracy, they're actually now advocating
00:02:07.280 for their constituency when they do that, because their constituency is the manageriate, essentially.
00:02:13.780 All of these people who really enjoy the small privileges and perks of being in this administrative
00:02:19.600 caste that has decision making, that determines how other people live their lives.
00:02:25.300 the next time they've seen, you know, the men who look at the system, let's have this
00:02:29.300 to know, how about the л bursts of being in this Phoenix-19wire-1965 we've seen.
00:02:30.480 And now, in the elder is currently being in the