Dala, I'm honestly just frustrated because I feel like you've become so close minded towards anything other than your view point. It just seems like this is just arguing viewpoints with no intention of looking at the other viewpoint, and that's just not how I remember you. Maybe I'm wrong, and I know I'm certainly guilty of the same thing at times as well. But I see you calling Babe a bigot with white privileges bc he disagrees with you. That just bums me out, because I feel like that's the same thing as what Joe does. I truly love you man, and think you're incredibly bright and driven, and maybe that's why this bugs me so much. I certainly don't expect you to always agree with me, I just don't like your new attitude.
I think babe is the first poster I've ever called a bigot, and I wanted to throw that label on him in hopes that he could understand the impression he was leaving with some of the posts he was making.
Look. Our political stances are reflections of our upbringings, plain and simple. This applies to everyone. I don't know what it's like to have a government mismanage my finances, tax me unfairly, and rob me of the ability to actually employ people in the agricultural sector and thereby provide for my community. I'll never get that. My family came to Canada with $50 in their pocket.
As I've gotten older, I've become really conscious about something called opportunity. I think talent and work-ethic are consistent across all social groups and socioeconomic strata-- but the level of preparation and number of opportunities we receive is differential.
And that totally, and absolutely guts me to my core. So much of my ties to my faith is a belief that God created us all as equals under his eyes-- and for us to undo this and put down swaths of people just absolutely kills me.
That's the root of the fire that burns inside me. Primarily, I worry about health. I worry about health because I really feel like one's health is the foundation of the rest of their life-- and when you have kids in Flint or anywhere across the US drinking that stuff you're already slanting the scales against them. And, as I've said, that kills me.
So that's where I'm coming from. Anytime I feel like someone isn't getting s fair shake, I feel indebted to fight with and fight for them.
If I was driving through NYC with you and someone ripped on farmers or rural ppl, best believe I'd let them hear it.
I hope this provides some context for the views I hold. So much of our potential is held back based on being born into social groups or social classes that don't get the same opportunities.
I may sound like a socialist, and I get that-- but my own family has accomplished incredible intergenerational mobility, and it couldn't have happened without Canada's policies that help families like ours.
