A Grumpy Gal from the East Coast

I’ve been thinking of reviving this blog for awhile now. Goodness knows, there’s plenty to feel grumpy about. We’re living in dark times, my friends - five years into a pandemic, with civil war threatening in the US, Christo-fascist movements on the rise, the planet on the brink of environmental collapse, and wars breaking out all over. Here in Canada, we’ve got incompetent and corrupt political leadership in most provinces, and an ugly federal election looming next year. I’ve been actively engaged in politics for nearly 5 decades now and I don’t remember it ever being this bad. The thing that makes it worse is that the electorate has become so ill-informed and disengaged in recent decades. Sorry to sound judgemental but it’s true. Most people don’t pay much attention to politics these days, and many who do lack the critical thinking skills needed to make genuinely informed choices. None of that is accidental, of course. Wealthy oligarchs, who are the largest funders of most mainstream...