TrickyRicky
Senior Member
We all know that Ford is a terrible Mayor as well as a man with serious personal and psychological issues but I was thinking that while some people here feel that Ford represents an indictment of voters or a voting segment or a political ideology, I feel he may represent an indictment of our entire political establishment.
First let me say that the issues were are dealing with are first world problems. Everything is generally OK and Ford's politics aren't even that extreme drawing from both right-wing and left-wing arguments. Ford is on the one hand THE DEFINITION of political establishment and insider and a career politician himself but on the other hand I feel that Ford's black sheep image actually gives him traction. He is like the Tommy Boy of the Conservative party, a party that is itself not particularly popular as demonstrated by the fact that Tim Huddak can't even win the Provincial election when it should be like slam-dunking on a Fisher-Price basketball net.
We already have OK government by international standards but I think voters are flailing around for a solution to good government and finding no answers or options within our current political system. For a certain segment of the voting population Ford has the right kind of bull-headed irrational dedication that is at least kind of safe. That safe haven status is not really dammaged by the continuing verification that he is personally and psychologically disturbed because these qualities are actually desirable to the extent that they keep him from being a credible foot soldier for a political master. It is the political parties, their brain-trust and their leaders that have no credibility in general across all parties.
First let me say that the issues were are dealing with are first world problems. Everything is generally OK and Ford's politics aren't even that extreme drawing from both right-wing and left-wing arguments. Ford is on the one hand THE DEFINITION of political establishment and insider and a career politician himself but on the other hand I feel that Ford's black sheep image actually gives him traction. He is like the Tommy Boy of the Conservative party, a party that is itself not particularly popular as demonstrated by the fact that Tim Huddak can't even win the Provincial election when it should be like slam-dunking on a Fisher-Price basketball net.
We already have OK government by international standards but I think voters are flailing around for a solution to good government and finding no answers or options within our current political system. For a certain segment of the voting population Ford has the right kind of bull-headed irrational dedication that is at least kind of safe. That safe haven status is not really dammaged by the continuing verification that he is personally and psychologically disturbed because these qualities are actually desirable to the extent that they keep him from being a credible foot soldier for a political master. It is the political parties, their brain-trust and their leaders that have no credibility in general across all parties.