Un-Premier Ford demonstrated that he still doesn't understand how government works when he responded to the charge that he was beholden to radical extremists by saying that Andrea Horwath was "the pot calling the kettle black".
"Distracting Doug" clearly isn't fit to lead a conservative party, because conservative leaders are supposed to get whiny and defensive when they're accused of pandering to extremists. It just goes to show that he doesn't have a plan to share with Ontarians, because if he had shared his plans with Ontarians we certainly would have been better prepared. Indeed, when he turned the tables on Horwath during that exchange that we missed the perfect opportunity to suddenly decide that "the pot calling the kettle black" was a racist expression!
Well, we have decided that Canadians have decided that they won't stand for it any longer! Facts matter now more than ever, when conservatives won't stay where we put them. Facts remain our best weapon against conservatives, ever since shaming them stopped working as well. But like any weapon, some should be more powerful than others. For example, the fact that some people on the left do have radical opinions should be one of the less powerful ones.
Essentially, any fact that helps us out matters more than any fact that doesn't. You may find this a little hard to believe, but just remember that if the expression "All Lives Matter" misses the point, so does "All Facts Matter." Also, since facts don't care about your feelings, we can't waste time caring about your feelings about our facts being the only facts that matter!
We also can't waste time grieving for the victims of the recent tragic shooting in Toronto when conservatives are using facts in a misleading way, because allowing them to use this senseless killing to further their own agenda would be an even larger tragedy. You can tell that they are using facts in a misleading way because they are focusing on the fact that ISIS claimed responsibility for the shooting, or the fact that the killer managed to obtain a gun despite allegedly being mentally ill, instead of focusing on the myriad of statistics that are supposed to prove how strong Toronto is.
Now, if you are wondering why the "Toronto-is-the-safest-place-ever" facts matter more than the "Toronto-is-under-siege-by-incels-and-entitled-violent-white-men" facts that we told you mattered more the last time there was a mass killing in Toronto, that's because you are focusing on the misleading facts promulgated by Conservatives. If you're wondering why, all of a sudden, people on the left seem to be taking the cops at their word when, on any other given day they would be raging against them for being racist, then you're REALLY focusing on misleading facts.
Ask yourself: Is ISIS a credible source, like the CBC or the Toronto Star? And if conservatives had a point about this killer being radicalized, what kind of agenda would be served by conceding that point? Would it make us more fearful and concerned about the direction our country is heading in? Would it force us to acknowledge that Canada is less than a perfect example to the world? What would that do to our international reputation?
We at the #Resistance think it's time to focus on building ourselves up in the eyes of the world instead of listening to those who would tear us down. Because we live in such close proximity to America and Russia, the two largest purveyors of mistruths in the world, Canada has the potential to be global leaders in responding to conservative un-facts and selecting the type of facts that matter more than other facts. But since these two powers are so skilled at trafficking in mistruths, we cannot respond in the sort of kid-glove manner which we approach literally every other problem we face.
That's why, if the Conservatives say it is Tuesday, we must say that it is Wednesday, no matter what the calendar might say. Where was that calendar made, anyway, and how do we know that that calendar was properly regulated by the appropriate Canadian government department?
Written by Josh Lieblein
