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They both want to get tough on crime. They both want to strengthen the border. They both want a new censorship regime for social media. They both want to build more oil pipelines. They both wanted to cancel the carbon tax. They both wanted to cut the capital gains tax. They both promise more cops, more prisons, more neoliberalism, more climate change, more of the same conservative policy that has come to be seen as the default. Only one has a leader who can give the impression of being rational, but there's never been a better time to not vote Conservative or Liberal. And yet that's what we'll be doing.

Canada is not alone in this predicament. The whole world is in need of a new kind of politics, some way out of this ideological vacuum that's being filled with bravado, bullshit, creeping fascism, and wishful thinking. The NDP has nothing. The Green Party is dissipated. Communism has lost its mojo. Surrealism has lost its magic powers. Situationism was abducted and hasn't been seen for decades. Somebody please come up with new ideas, maybe I can help edit the fucking manifesto in time for the next election.