Free advice for Conservative leadership candidates... Stop getting people to try to like you. No one likes conservatives much in this country, even in normal times. They're a necessary evil who get elected when Libs or NDP get too high on themselves. Like, e.g., right now...
To the extent you're "likeable," that's a bug, not a feature. What ppl want is the boss who walks into a room and fires all the idiots. No one likes that guy. What's worse, the attempt to convince everyone you're likeable turns you into a sort of grinning Mr Potato Head....
This does NOT mean u become a Trump-style asshole. What it means is u have one job: get rid of the asinine crap that even many of JT's own followers hate: the race baiting, genocide this & genocide that, flag lowering, knee bending, & all the other photo-op hashtag bullshit ....
Don't tell me you want to me my best friend. We distrust all politicians, even you, and no I don't want to shake your outstretched hand. I want you to be the hard ass antihero who slaps the upper middle class out of the insane social panic that's seized it since canada150....
Your ads: I don't want to see you hugging kids. I don't care if you have a dog. I don't even want to see a picture of YOU. Your ads should be B-roll of everything we hate about the weird clique of self loathing cultists who've redefined canada as a sort of Nordic mordor
main advantage of this approach: voters will believe you will do this agenda once elected. bcuz we know you WANT to do it. Unlike other nonsense ("elect me & you'll own your own home! climate change will be solved!") this promise creates trust (i.e. in u) instead of erodes it
Free advice for Conservative leadership candidates... Stop getting people to try to like you. No one likes conservatives much in this country, even in normal times. They're a necessary evil who get elected when Libs or NDP get too high on themselves. Like, e.g., right now...
To the extent you're "likeable," that's a bug, not a feature. What ppl want is the boss who walks into a room and fires all the idiots. No one likes that guy. What's worse, the attempt to convince everyone you're likeable turns you into a sort of grinning Mr Potato Head....
This does NOT mean u become a Trump-style asshole. What it means is u have one job: get rid of the asinine crap that even many of JT's own followers hate: the race baiting, genocide this & genocide that, flag lowering, knee bending, & all the other photo-op hashtag bullshit ....
Don't tell me you want to me my best friend. We distrust all politicians, even you, and no I don't want to shake your outstretched hand. I want you to be the hard ass antihero who slaps the upper middle class out of the insane social panic that's seized it since canada150....
Your ads: I don't want to see you hugging kids. I don't care if you have a dog. I don't even want to see a picture of YOU. Your ads should be B-roll of everything we hate about the weird clique of self loathing cultists who've redefined canada as a sort of Nordic mordor
main advantage of this approach: voters will believe you will do this agenda once elected. bcuz we know you WANT to do it. Unlike other nonsense ("elect me & you'll own your own home! climate change will be solved!") this promise creates trust (i.e. in u) instead of erodes it
Jonathan Kay is columnist for NP, saw that Peterson retweeted it, thought it was interesting enough to share