This province is beautiful. I’ve been end to end. The sky alone is enough for one to freeze in place and stare for hours (let alone the weather). Unfortunately, the province is anchored to a government led by a woman who believes she knows better than educated professionals and is ramming through policies that undermine our freedom. I think if you still espouse the lame duck ‘fiscally conservative, socially liberal’ excuse, you’re part of the problem. These are different times, and we all need to accept that fact. The supposedly fiscally conservative are Literally and figuratively strip-mining our province. They are puking lies about my community. I’ve grown up a homo in this fucking place. No one groomed me. No one mentored me. I figured it all out all on my fucking own, and one thing is incredibly clear: the silent are complicit. You sit idly by waiting for the trickle-down. All you’re going to get is pissed on, babe.
I have tried to write this three separate times, and end up exploding in rage. I’m sick to the teeth of little tyrants throwing coins at street people, sick to the teeth of queer people getting told they’re the reason anything goes wrong. Yet another attack on public education. Yet another attack on public health care. The condescension of the actions and tone of this woman and her cronies triggers neanderthal feelings inside of me. I am stunned at the willful ignorance of self-appointed knowledge gatherers espousing absolute claptrap repeated verbatim from YouTube quacks without once asking themselves ‘why are these people claiming these things and what do they gain by roping me in?’ Doing your own research? Ask an actual scientist or doctor if they do all their research on the toilet.
Announcing a hammering-through of anti-trans policy on the week of Trans Awareness takes a special kind of asshole. And do we ever have that special kind running the shop. The tragically hilarious fact about it all is that this awful woman is just biding time lining up her next gig as some oil or war lobbyist in some other country while she draws and quarters us then smashes us all to a pulp using the playbook of actual fascists. Don’t believe me? You mustn’t know about the problems our neighbours to the south are having. Pop over to my parents’ house and crack one of the many books on WWII for an eye-opener. Or watch any documentary on Roy Cohn: tell your lie, then never waiver. That’s it. And what is she doing? M-hm.
Don’t misconstrue. I belong to no party. I don’t look at politics as Oilers vs. Flames. I don’t vote for best mommy or daddy. This is not a missive endorsing anyone. I hate participating in a system built on the backs of people those with the means consider disposable. Can’t have capitalism without someone being destitute. Another fact that escapes. Anyway. What this is is me pleading with you to get involved. At least a little. Send an email. Call an MLA. Leave a footprint to show you give a shit about those of us who have taken kicks to the teeth for generations in order to serve the narrative of a bunch of rich cunts out for more more more. I cannot believe I’ve lived long enough to see progress get whisked away by a gaggle of ditch pigs utilizing a clause that should never have been created in the first place. I mean, as long as there are humans involved, someone will be on the take. Why give them the perfect tool to take away what is our chartered right? Leave Trans kids and their families alone! It is not hard! They take nothing from your freedom by having theirs! We are a society. You don’t have to like everyone, or live like everyone else. Like the meme says, ‘rights aren’t pie.’
The idea that anyone thinks that’s where it’s going to stop makes me shake my fucking head non-stop. Is there blood coming out of my ears?