So you read my post, and what you got out of it is I’m sympathetic to Rob Ford? The issue is this: there is no mechanism to protect the people of Toronto from out of control governance. It has little or nothing to do with Ford, but it is exactly what the Harris government intended – Toronto should be ungovernable. Toronto is a city in stasis, it cannot adapt, it cannot build new systems, it has a transit system from the 80’s, it cannot control development. Mayor Ford is an expression of that, not a cause of it – this is how Toronto has been for 35 years, and amalgamation has made it worse, but not changed the basic character of the city.
Laughable Bumblefuck – a stupid, frattish term anyway, redolent of the bullying mentality that’s supposedly just Ford’s purview – is a stupid personalization of the city’s problems that are systemic, permanent, disastrous, criminal, corrupt. Continuing to pretend that Ford isn’t an extremely popular mayor, profoundly representative of what Toronto fundamentally is, is just hiding from reality.
