Critical Perspectives and Reflections

There is a picture recently circulating on the internet which provides an accurate, though rather depressing, rendering of a pair of contemporary right wing Canadian politicians. One, Danielle Smith, is presently infesting the Office of Premier in Alberta. She looks dower and displeased, as if she has just missed out on being allowed to pull wings off some flies. The other one, is the leader of the Loyal (using the term loosely) Opposition in the House of Commons, Pierre Poilievre. How he has somehow managed to finagle, or barge (probably both), his way into the leadership of the (highly) Conservative Party is puzzling, but not germane to this article. He also looks unhappy. He also appears dower but seems more like a man who has just finished sucking a very unpalatable lemon. Both of these specimens of present-day conservative leadership look as if they are miserable. In action they are miserable. They are me-first toxic individualists (think Ayn Rand); neither is possessed of, or eve...