A student from Nepal, who couldn\u2019t vote, asked the class who they were voting for. The responses spread across the familiar spectrum: five for the Liberals, three for the NDP, one Conservative, one Green. The rest kept quiet, guarded behind their silence. Then he asked each group to persuade him\u2014why, if he could, he should vote as they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Liberal-leaners said: Because they let you in.<\/em> He turned to me last, expecting my answer. But I didn\u2019t offer a platform, or a party line. I directed him to Charles Mingus\u2019s The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady<\/em> on Spotify and told him some truths can\u2019t be delivered in bullet points. A record that doesn\u2019t tell you what to but shows you how it feels<\/em> to carry contradiction with dignity. Hoping he might hear how conviction sounds when it is too deep for slogans, too fractured for consensus, yet still utterly human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A student from Nepal, who couldn\u2019t vote, asked the class who they were voting for. The responses spread across the familiar spectrum: five for the Liberals, three for the NDP, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The NDP supporters: Because they\u2019ll be there if you lose everything.<\/em>
The Conservative: Because someone has to stop the debt from devouring your future.<\/em>
The Green voice: Because the world will end if you don\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n