Commentary
The provincial election in Ontario concluded uneventfully this summer, the contest for the leader of the Alberta United Conservative Party is in mid-swing, and, at the time of this writing, the federal Conservative leadership convention is just around the corner.
For those who have been giddy at the prospect of replacing recent and current leaders with genuine conservatives, as opposed to another simulacrum thereof, I offer the following as a way of talking you down.
From grade school onward, Canadians have been admonished about their civic duty to vote. I’ve always wondered about that, since (as the late P.J. O’Rourke observed) voting for politicians only encourages them. Sociopaths who steal your hard-earned wealth and dictate what you must do, say, and think need no more encouragement. In a healthy society, those who run for office should have a modicum of fear of being run out of it….