Twitter is an interesting place to observe the partisans of various parties verbally sparring with each other. You can also see partisans from the same party going at each other over contentious issues like leadership races, etc. Personally, I don’t find sparring to be a constructive use of my time and I’m not particularly good at it but idle hands are the devil’s playthings as they say. Lately I’ve been thinking it might be more constructive to adopt a postpartisan philosophy like my friends in the Green Party. Not an easy thing to do when faced with partisan provocateurs chirping over the “imminent demise” of the LPC. But then I think about all the other Canadian Liberals across the country keeping the flame alive in lonely outposts like Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and I tell myself if they can persevere, surely so can I.
