I'm more depressed about the state of conservative politics in Canada right now than i think i've ever been, i won't deny it.
Some advice to conservatives, young conservatives especially, that i am doing myself.
Let's get thinking, talking, writing and organizing around what conservatism is and needs to be and should look like. The country has changed, the world has changed, but too often i don't think conservatism here has changed in substantive ways it's just taking the old stuff and trying to reapply it to a new world and hoping it fits. And I think we need to have honest and serious discussions that are not just dogfights or purely partisan discussions but deeper questions about what we stand for.
I look at all sorts of conservative camps and factions right now and I see intellectual poverty everywhere. Part of the problem i see is we've had plenty of party and leadership fights but not enough intellectual fights that are actually about what we need to care about and what our answers are.
Not partisan dogfights but serious discussions to help us update our intellectual basis, there are the beginnings of it and some good spaces, people, publications that have appeared in the last little while. This has to be the beginning and gives me some hope. I want us to build and focus on this and reject the various tired or vacuous things we are told we have to.