There’s nothing worse than politicians swiping left or right to win votes. Or those whose leaders whisper their ideology and waver during elections. You know those who, for example, promise more police and who flank after the election storm.
Actually they are not sincere because deep down they want to disappoint and disarm the police. We can agree or not, that’s not my point. But can we at least have the right time? Is it possible to choose the menu without being scammed?
butter and butter money
There is no unanimity in politics. Besides, what is it for? Better to keep questioning yourself. Our brains will only be better off. Tell yourself, you either win or you learn.
So when I see the postponement of the Plante administration and its management of Montrealers’ safety, I can’t help but ask, ‘Do you have a vision? In reality, this team is torn between its anti-police ideology, its desire to win elections, and its commitment to govern for all Montrealers. They are constantly moving forward and backward.
One of her dreams, besides defunding the police force, is total disarmament of the police force. Knowing that we are not in the world of Narnia, they found a loophole, namely that of a “pilot project to assess the relevance of certain police officers who do not carry firearms in certain interventions”, of course in cooperation with the SPVM. It’s in their program. A sleight of hand for their militant and picky base.
You can imagine that when the security of Montrealers is in the hands of a team whose ideology promotes an anti-police vision, one cannot be surprised at the conflicted relationship between the mayor and the police. We will remember his many quarrels with the former head of the SPVM.
And why not pragmatism?
As Arendt put it, there is a danger of “exchanging philosophical thought for the total explanation that encapsulates an ideology and its [vision du monde] not so much the risk of falling for a few generally vulgar and always pre-critical postulates as exchanging the inherent freedom of the human mind for the straitjacket of logic [qui s’articulent sur des prémisses révélées et fictives] “.
What could be more effective to get out of this logic than to be guided by pragmatism, in this case, for example, to quickly hire 300 police officers; by investing in prevention an amount equal to 10% of the budget allocated to repression, and by reaching out to all young people without exception; through strong support for police forces and why not body cameras to help them do their job without fear of racial profiling accusations. Effective and concrete measures that do not require great ideological debates.
