Well, it looks like I’ve been sentenced to yet another year of this fucking existence.
The government caved to the desires of American astroturfers.
I gotta thank all of the American Dark Money astroturf financiers that sunk money into disrupting Canadian politics.
The American alt-right evangelicals have always tried their best to disrupt Canadian politics. They hate and despise our socialist leanings and the progressive ways of our government.
The idea that a fully grown adult could have their right to request the end of their life at the hands of a trained medical professional was too much for these fundies.
God loves suffering….. suffering is next to godliness.
So, they came to Canada and whipped up a frenzy of fear amongst the xtian fundies in this country and used “the disabled” as a prop in their war.
If M.A.i.D. for mental illness was allowed to proceed then apparently the government was going to start rounding up “the disabled” and would start murdering them in killing fields located outside of every city and every town across this country.
The actual argument put forth by the astroturfing fundies was that “the disabled” were going to kill themselves en masse instead of living in poverty.
And you can tell that this was a concerted effort by American evangelical fundies because the only thing being proposed was to not allow M.A.i.D. for mental illness to proceed. The evangelical fundies never once proposed raising the support rate for persons living with disabilities.
Why wouldn’t the American fundies suggest increasing support rates paid to the disabled?
That’s socialism.
Can’t suggest that.
But at least they can support not allowing M.A.i.D. for mental illness.
This doesn’t cost the tax payer money.
And if it increasing the amount of suffering, so be it, suffering is a bonus for the evangelical fundamentalist.
And don’t kid yourself, America has been influencing Canadian politics for an extremely long time.
Whether it be the rise of alt-right neo-conservative politics in this country, or the decimation of our public social programs, American think tanks can usually be found pumping the dark money into Canada.
You want to see evidence of American dark money?
https://sustainablesong.medium.com/revoke-the-fraser-institutes-charitable-status-bec03751567e
American dark money has influenced Canadian politics for ages, and it will just end up getting worse in the future.
Canada had one chance to allow me to obtain the end of my suffering. Now I doubt if the government will ever bring this up again.
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