Canada’s former Liberal leader says liberals went astray when they lost their ‘bull detector’

A shocking autopsy report written by former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff reveals the catastrophic mistakes made by the so-called “adults in the room” who led liberalism.

As the political left faces a series of defeats across the Western world, from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing his imminent resignation to Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat by President-elect Donald Trump, many party elites are asking, Where their movement lost support to the conspiracy. Ignatieff was once a major figure in Canadian liberal politics, serving as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party and Opposition but later serving as chancellor of a university affiliated with liberal megadonor George Soros. On Tuesday, he published an article titled, “I was born a liberal. The ‘adults in the room’ have a lot to learn,” noting, “To rebuild liberalism, we need to reclaim the word’s past meaning.

The author points out how dramatically Canada has changed in terms of diversity during his time, and how the same diversity, “Once an ideology, it quickly became a coercive program to monitor speech and behavior in the name of dignity and respect, used against white working-class citizens.

“My generation of entitled white people welcomed the revolution because we could invite people of color into our ranks without feeling like our own elite status was challenged. We seemed oblivious to the threats, and even betrayals, of non-elite white people, the new multiracial order,” he said. “In the face of what we perceived to be white racism and sexism, which at the time was dominated by fear, we began to enact codes of speech and behavior that imposed diversity as the new cultural norm.”

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The former Canadian politician concluded, “A liberalism that makes freedom its defining value has invented a diversity and inclusion industry whose guiding principle may be justice but whose means of execution include coercion, public shaming and exclusion.”

The backslash of doing this, he said, is that liberals themselves begin to be constrained by their ideology.

“The worst part is that we censor ourselves, willingly turning off our bull detectors and quieting the inner doubts that might have led us to confront our mistakes,” he said. “We abandon the self-evident truth that whether an argument is true or false has nothing to do with the race or origin of the person making it. We begin to promote the truth of speech based on the speaker’s gender, race, class, origin, or backstory (history of oppression, discrimination, domestic violence).

But Ignatiev believes that in addition to cultural backlash, abandoning large numbers of people will have political consequences.

“By failing to focus on the fear of displacement caused by the liberal revolution, we end up creating a major political opportunity for every extreme view to line up to speak on behalf of everyone that liberals no longer listen to,” he said. “By the 2020s, most liberals were beginning to retreat from our self-righteous virtue politics, nervously at first, then with increasing speed. First, we tired others of our virtue signaling, and then we It’s us who are tired of it.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation in January. (AP/Adrian Wilder/Canadian Press)

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“The old parties that once presided over the liberal revolution—the Liberals in Canada, the Democrats in the United States, the Social Democrats in Europe—now see their white working-class bases retreating, their multicultural support splintering into autonomous groups, each have begun to make a strange new epistemological claim: Only by being like me can you understand me,” he added.

He recalled that many of these issues were resolved when he was kicked out of politics in 2011.

“On election night, our party suffered the worst defeat in its history and I lost my seat in parliament – a verdict that for me, years later, was not just a trial for me but for liberalism, And liberalism has made itself the victim of liberalism.

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Failure is a useful teacher, he wrote in a lengthy editorial.

“Failure taught me that we cannot give up on our values ​​when the political tide turns against us. Liberalism is hopelessly viable because it teaches us who we most want to be if we are willing to fight for it.” Never Surrender to the despair of the moment,” he wrote.