Ford doesn’t hold lives in his hands. He got to wear a paper crown. His powers were stripped and instead of anyone thinking maybe the position is not important as we like to think it is, they still pretend it matters.
The kicker for me is the other contender for the paper crown also ingested hard drugs – and screwed up as a provincial cabinet minister. Toronto can play make pretend that all would have been so much better if the Other Guy would have won, but it’s a comforting delusion.
I know people want to drink overpriced lattes and brag that their brats won Miss Small Potatoes at the county fair as fake laughter is cued in, but you have a broken system that attracts the same kind of people who keep failing upwards from both the Left and the Right. Neither side can have virtuous airs in the matter…
