The governments we deserve

The Ontario election is underway and when all of the dust settles I imagine that we will have Premier Doug Ford leading a Progressive Conservative government.

Judging by what we have seen and heard from him in the early campaign and throughout his political life we can probably expect government polices along the lines of what we saw with Mike Harris, only being delivered by someone with alot less class.  

In my previous post I mentioned that it is getting harder and harder for ordinary people to stay above water let alone get ahead.  The ability of ordinary people, the so called middle class, to meet their basic needs, plan for their retirement and give their children a leg up for their future is eroding at a predigious rate.  Hell, I read a survey last week that indicated that the majority of Canadians do not believe the next generation of Canadians will be as financially well off as the current generation.  We all know that we are heading in the wrong direction.  The signs are there but we cannot seem to figure out how to change direction.

So as a result many of those very same middle class people will vote for politicians who will pursue policies that will increase and accelerate that erosion, such as Doug Ford and the Conservatives.  They will pursue the usual Conservative policies of cutting services and cutting taxes to the wealthy and corporations.  Three decades of empirical evidence proves that such policies do great harm to the economy and the overall financial health of ordinary people but they do not care because their ideology states the opposite and Conservatives do not let the facts get in the way of their ideology.

So, the cycle will continue.  The erosion of the ability of ordinary people to get ahead will continue, probably accelerating under Conservative policies, and the general malaise of ordinary people, as demonstrated by the poll I mentioned above, will intensify.

You have to wonder if and when there will be a breaking point.