If politicians want to call each other names, that's up to them. Just as long as their policies aren't weird or wacko

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U.S. Democrats have launched an assault on the Republicans based on their new vice-presidential nominee, Tim Walz, having recently called them “weird.” Donald Trump has called the top of the Democratic ticket “crazy Kamala.” Meanwhile, here at home, the Liberals, lacking imagination, are using “weird” to describe the Conservatives, who in turn have described the prime minister as “wacko” and Liberal policies as “crazy.”

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Just last week, much to delight of his Sudbury audience, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, declared: “They (the Liberals) want to ban roads, ban your gas-powered and diesel-powered vehicles, ban plastic straws, but legalize cocaine. So, you can use cocaine as long as it’s through a paper straw, not a plastic straw. You have to use cocaine in an environmentally friendly way. That is how crazy everything has become.”

‘Tis the season, in politics, of name-calling. While calling someone or something a name might attract a few votes here and there, it does little to encourage serious policy discussion. With inflation still above target, high interest rates really beginning to bite, unemployment rising, global stock markets crashing and public debt verging on unmanageable, maybe we should have some civil discussion about the serious — not wacko — policies that we need today.

Mind you, “wacko”........

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