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If you never changed your mind, you'd still have the mentality of a child...
Oh wait...
The world would be a better place if people were celebrated for changing their minds if it was done for a good reason.
"I changed my mind because my views were unpopular" is a terrible reason, and true of many politicians.
But, "I changed my mind because I learned new things and had new experiences" should be admired. Also, "I changed my mind because the world changed" is another one that, at least sometimes, is good.
"I changed my mind because my views were unpopular" is a terrible reason, and true of many politicians.
This is one of the many reasons I think that anyone who wants political power should probably not have it.
I’ve always admired the parliamentary tradition of having to drag a new speaker of the house to their chair. Reluctance to have and to use power is such an important, admirable quality.
That said, I do believe our Canadian system is much better than the US one in one particular respect: parliamentary accountability. The leader of the executive, the prime minister, cannot remain in power if they lose the confidence of their own party. We witnessed this most recently with the resignation of Justin Trudeau after he had lost the confidence of his party.
In the US, the president has a lot more power simply because he is insulated from his own party by the separation of powers within the system. Trump is fully engaged in his destructive tariff campaign despite any opposition within his party because of this. The Republican Party, as bad as they are, are never as bad (or as good) as any individual within their ranks. This moderating effect does not extend to the White House due to the aforementioned insulation effect.
Definitely true of people who want power for the sake of having power. There are some who want power because it's what they need to make the improvements they think the world needs -- I'd put someone like Bernie Sanders in that list.
I'd put someone like Bernie Sanders in that list.
I'd argue that people like Bernie don't want power, but recognise it as the fastest way to get real and meaningful change. That, in my mind, is the real difference. If things weren't so fucked, for so long, I don't think Bernie would be in politics. Obviously this is purely a personal opinion, and we sadly don't live in that alternate universe. So we'll never know.
The problem is he is a fucking traitor, don't give a fuck about anything else that little runt has to say.
Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ on Bluesky
Pierre Poilievre once said politicians shouldn’t stay in office for life. That was 1999. It’s 2025—he’s still here, with the same angry rhetoric and no results. Now he wants to kill public media and silence journalists. What’s he so afraid of? #SaveTheCBC #CdnPoli #Canada
"Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation... Therefore, I would institute a limit of two terms for members of Parliament" - Pierre Poilievre 1990
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What he meant was "other" politicians should not be be lifelong career politicians. He should be exempt of course because he is the "chosen one". He is Trump junior, let there be no doubt.
If you think the exact same way you thought 20 years ago, well you’ve wasted 20 years.
Bragging to Peterson that he never changes his mind is just stupid. Always talking about growth but admitting he has no interest in personal growth. What a broken human
Poilievre is not destined to lose, but he’s vulnerable because the feeling that he was destined to win has dissipated. That feeling was an artefact, one he crafted with real skill, using [Trudeau]'s many flaws to distract from some of his own. He’s facing a new opponent, who is new to campaigning and can jettison only so much of the Trudeau record. It’s hardly obvious who’ll win.
I'm not sure that Poilievre needed to distract from his own flaws - Canadians often vote against politicians. There were a lot of people feeling the cost of living polycrisis who wanted a change. I suspect the CPC could have run a rock as leader and beaten Trudeau.
Carney is a similar case because some of us are using him as the option to vote against Poilievre.
It’s time to show him the door.
CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp
Then why has he stopped talking so much about defund the English CBC?
Doesn’t mean he changed his mind on cutting it.
'cause he's a liar too
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