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Ditto. It was all a mirage, nothing is real: "congress"; "checks and balances"; "free press"; "guns to protect from tyranny"; corporate media as "free"; "public healthcare and social services, socialism, anathema". The buck is someone's pocket does magic to your miserable life. Dumb and dim were too dim to understand that they were pipe led to their demise. And finally, stepped over the cliff. The lesson: don't be dumb. Think. Keep big money under control always. If someone is lying all the time it's because they have a purpose.

Aha, we're back to medieval ages and crusades? All the great teachings, for nothing? Don't give a ---- how they pray, look what they do.

Brainless in the alternate universe. Now a reality show.

In two words: Conservative hypocrisy. In the worst case it goes right into maga (2020, conspiracy to overturn, election manipulation and so on). Nothing we don't know.

Aka Conservatives will blow from both sides of the mouth simultaneously: they oppose proportional system, every vote count. And they complain when FPTP majority works against them. Losers or maga (or both)? Let's figure.

OK remember the question was about generations of ancestors? If he has zero direct ancestors born in Canada but himself born here, that's zero. And then, there's the other case.

I say that Conservatives are on their way to becoming maga: if democratic institution doesn't serve their purpose, undermine it, discard it, blow it up and throw away. And then, what: what's left? Maga paradise, worshiping golden toilet and personal airplane? There's nothing here that anyone with a grain of working brain wouldnt' know these days.

Aha "stopped paying attention" means what? That justice isn't important in a democratic society? That it can be discarded and thrown away on a whim or just being bored? C'mon let's see it right to the end - where does it, this path ends do you think?

But is it 0 (zero) or -1? An essential distinction.

No, I describe it in entirely and factually real terms: 1. Convicted rapist 2. Multiple time convicted felon 3. A non-stop pathological liar caught in astronomical number of lies, like daily. The last one, 99% approval higher than Kim and Vlad his figures of admiration. What of the above isn't real and "demonical"? Only an objective, factual picture. And if we cannot, have no common ground to interpret it in a similar way, what can we agree on? Raping is good - or at least acceptable? Lying and swindling, necessary correction? Reinstate racism to advance economy? Subvert or suppress the rule of law? Install your cronies everywhere to control everything? Lying no limit only to get to and hold the power? What is the limit in this picture, what will they not do? Well you've seen it and you knew. So it's only a choice really, free and conscious. No one made you, not a chance. You knew and you chose it.

How is it the same thing? An election was due this year it could have been triggered in the fall we discussed that. But refusing the elected seat right after the election, it looks and feels like an abuse of the process.

You're speaking only for yourself here, remember that. We means "I" and a bunch like me. Those who have no identity, no pride in their country, who count and sweat over each peanut and trust every liar who would promise them more. And sure there're always a few around. Convicted rapist, felon and pathological liar who cannot utter a work without spilling it a needed "correction". See you're converting in real time. Come next year, gonna clap and cheer? There was much more to say but I just didn't feel like it. Meh.

Here's the problem of conservative movement that often leads it to maga-style cultism. In a modern prosperous and advanced society, it fails to envision, explain and defend a social project that is inspirational and captivating. So they either embrace the general idea and thrust of progress, inclusive and compassionate society and work on some aspect of it (many countries in Europe); or invariably reduced to the role of barking, an attack dog that is necessary as oversight in the society but damages their collective psyche, where they eventually see every act as an attack on their "values" and the only point of politics in gaining the power. Conservatives have to think about it now, because in their current state, maga isnt' that far away. And for the country as a whole, we quite urgently need a meaningful change in politics, to avoid inevitable and catastrophic polarization that is written on the wall. When and if maga wins, it's nothing short of a catastrophe for the society. And quite possibly, irreversible too.

$1.2 to 1.5$ million thrown away right after an election sounds like an abuse of the process, an insult to the citizens and disrespect of democracy. Should CPC find a more credible face to represent it, not to mention "honor" - or continue its slide into a local variant of maga? The clock is ticking on the answer.

PP's very own by-election, approximately a day after Canadian citizens and taxpayers have spoken loud and clear.