A former Canadian Liberal leader said the Liberals were wrong when they lost their bulls— detectives.
Former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff has written a scathing autopsy of where the so-called “masters in the room” are running liberalism, so tragically wrong.
As left-wing politics has suffered a series of defeats in the West, from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing his resignation to Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump, many party elites are questioning where the movement has gone. Conspiracy. Ignatieff was once a towering figure in Canadian Liberal politics, once serving as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and the opposition, but has since headed a university with ties to liberal megalodist George Soros. On Tuesday, he said, “I was born a liberal. The ‘adults in the room’ still have a lot to learn” and “to rebuild liberalism, we need to regain the meaning of the word.”
The author describes how much Canada has changed in diversity over time, and that same diversity; “Once upon a time, ideology quickly became a program of coercion of speech and behavior in the name of dignity and respect.
“White people of my generation welcomed the revolution because we could invite recruits of color into our ranks without feeling that our own elite status was being challenged. We didn’t seem to see white people being threatened and betrayed by white people. The new multiracial system,” he said. When we face things, when most fear, to impose diversity as a new cultural norm We began to promulgate rules of speech and conduct.”
Former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff says liberals are stuck in their ideology. (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
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As a former Canadian politician put it succinctly: “Liberalism, which values liberty, has invented an industry of exclusion and inclusion, whose guiding principle may be justice, but whose means of execution include coercion, dehumanization and exclusion.”
He says that the reaction to this backlash is that liberals themselves are beginning to be bound by ideology.
“Worst of all, we’ve censored ourselves, we’ve willingly killed our bulls — we’ve destroyed the introspection that made us face our mistakes,” he said. “Arguments are arguments regardless of race or origin, regardless of whether they are true or false. We begin to advance arguments as truth based on gender, race, class, origin, or background (oppression, discrimination, history of family violence).
But beyond a cultural conflict, Ignatieff argues, it has begun to have political consequences by abandoning a large segment of the population.
“By ignoring the threat of displacement created by the liberal revolution, we have created a critical political space for all the radical ideologies lining up to speak on behalf of all that liberals have stopped listening to,” he said. In the year By the 2020s, most liberals were backing away, at first anxiously and quickly, from our own politics of righteousness. It’s ourselves.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation in January. (AP/Adrian Wilde/The Canadian Press)
The old political parties that led the liberal revolution—the Liberals in Canada, the Democrats in the United States, the Social Democrats in Europe—now saw their white working-class bases on the way out and their multicultural support fragmented into independent groups. A stranger began to make a new epistemological statement: “You can only understand me if you are like me,” he added.
When he left politics in 2011, he recalled that many of these issues came home to him.
“On election night, our party suffered an unprecedented defeat in our history, and I lost my seat in Parliament – a verdict not only for me after all these years, but also for self-styled liberalism. It was held in its own estimation.
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Failure, he wrote in the long editorial, is a valuable teacher.
“Defeat has taught me that when the political tide turns against us, we are powerless to strike at our values. Liberalism’s indomitable vitality comes from telling us who we want to be as long as we are willing to fight. And never give in to the passing fads of despair,” he wrote.