John Robson: Decades of ‘Be Yourself’ Messaging Behind Much of Today’s Antisocial Behaviour

Commentary When I read that our government despises us, I’m tempted to respond that the feeling is mutual. But as Andrew Breitbart warned, politics is downstream of culture. So there’s a “Picture of Dorian Voter” problem here. Certainly when a “Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force” study calls us misinformed conspiracy-minded kooks who hate politicians, I want to shake the morning paper at them. On March 25 alone I encountered our finance minister asking senators to pass a money-shredding bill unread. And in addition to $59.5 million to consultants, federal bureaucrats clocked 134,000 hours of their own highly-paid pensionable time on the wretched ArriveCan app....