Prepared and Ready to Rule

"We have to look at the root causes. Now, we don't know now if it was terrorism or a single crazy or a domestic issue or a foreign issue. But there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded. Completely at war with innocents. At war with a society. And our approach has to be, where do these tensions come from?
"Yes, there's a need for security and response. But we also need to make sure that as we go forward, that we don't emphasize a culture of fear and mistrust. Because that ends up marginalizing even further those who already are feeling like they are enemies of society"
Justin Trudeau, leader, Liberal Party of Canada

"When you see this type of violent act, you do not sit around trying to rationalize it or make excuses for it or figure out its root causes. You condemn it categorically, and to the extent you can deal with the perpetrators, you deal with them as harshly as possible."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper

This alone should convince the Prime Minister that there really is no need to risk annoying the sensitive demographic of the public by airing those controversial 'attack' advertisements pointing out what is already obvious to many, and simply irritating to those who have no wish to acknowledge the reality that Justin Trudeau is a callow, intellectually unadventurous and simplistic-minded social celebrity-favourite and little else.

Why bother spending all those advertising dollars to point the electorate in the direction of looking more closely and critically at this young man who feels entitled to the candidacy and presumptive station of prime minister, a destiny preordained by birth and charisma? The man's vacuity and unflappable sense of socialist dogma will itself eventually make the impression upon the electorate framed in that famed expression: Uh-Oh!

Bob Rae's avuncular admonition to Justin Trudeau, published in The Globe and Mail, turns out, after all, to be exceedingly sound advice, that the recently-crowned Liberal prince should "keep doing what you're doing, and show people who you are". As far as the show-and-tell advice is concerned, Justin appears to have taken it to heart, because, after all, it's what he does best, showing and telling, it's in his acting blood.

Justin feels that society is misdirected in its unequivocal horror at an event whereby disgruntled would-be murderers plot to make their dreams come true in an attack on a crowded celebratory venue, and succeeding in transitioning from would-be to hugely successful. A compassionate society should indulge in a bit of introspection at this juncture; try to empathize with those whom society has excluded, unjustly, unfairly.

We must make every effort to understand and have sympathy with those whose aggravated victimhood spurs them to act out, to demonstrate their disaffection with society. Not to do so is to live the unexamined life, and we wouldn't want to do that, would we?