Canada. A quirky, perky and very cold country full of overly polite hockey players who like maple syrup, brightly coloured money, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, and Drake?
Or a frozen wasteland where entrepreneurship is stifled, creativity is stunted, corruption is pervasive, and all are subject to the whims of the terrifying and invisible Consensus?
Maybe both?
Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Josh Lieblein, pharmacist, political activist, and teller of tales. I was recruited to Liberty Island by a man you all know and respect- Mr. Dave Swindle- who answered a call for assistance when a new Canadian conservative website – Rebel Media– was looking for writers to contribute to its community blog, The Megaphone.
For a year, Dave and I dialogued about the commonalities and differences between Canadian and American politics, the future of conservatism in a world beset by Trumpism, and how to inspire conservatives to create and take back the culture from the left.
Now the Megaphone has been shut down, scrubbed from the Internet, due to lack of traffic- or was that the work of the Consensus again? Hmmmm…..
Luckily, Dave and I have been working together to bring an epic fantasy trilogy based on the strange and darkly funny world of Canadian politics to life. I’ll be sharing chapters from the rewritten version of the first volume- Obsidian- as they come to life with you, as well as some insights from up north that you might find interesting.
For example…what if I told you that we already have a government run by President Hillary Clinton….and it’s in Canada?
And what if I told you that there was a Canadian prototype for Donald Trump?
In my next post, I’ll be revealing more about these mysteries.
Until then…..I’m Josh Lieblein, and just like we say up in Canada all the time…It is what it is.
There was a time when Josh Lieblein actually thought he'd live out a quiet, normal life, helping to keep his fellow Canadians alive as long as possible by working within the confines of a not-actually-all-that-universal health care system. As is often the case, however, fate had other ideas. After being targeted by campus leftists, he was summoned to the nation's capital and trained to fight against the rent-seeking, tax-farming Liberal Party of Canada, a group of snobby elitists who think they're SO much better than everyone else.
Unfortunately, Canadians are not known for their successes in war-fighting (though they are quite brave and level-headed in the face of peril) and even though Josh distinguished himself in several successful electoral contests and developed an expert knowledge of his country's culture and politics, the Liberals ultimately returned to power. Taking pity on this poor enslaved Canadian, Liberty Island Senior Editor David Swindle suggested that politics was actually downstream from culture and that if he could actually shift Canada's culture (after first discovering it, of course), then its politics would follow. Since Canada's literary elite are a bunch of self-promoting hacks who
glorify carnal relations with animals (no, I am not joking), Josh realized that he could hardly do worse.
The result is his first novel, the first draft of which is now undergoing its initial revisions and edits: an epic tale of magic, mystery, and not a little foolishness set on a distant world just slightly unlike our own, where the young hero OBSIDIAN MORNINGSTAR relies on only his fists, his wits, and his latent magical ability in his life-defining struggle against the monstrous machinations of the depraved- but impeccably polite- reality-bending aristocrats known as THE CONSENSUS.
When Josh is not trying to stage a one-man literary uprising, he can be found
columnizing and
podcasting at Loonie Politics, investigating the real-life Consensus with his journalist pal Graeme C. Gordon at
ravingcanuck.com, while working long hours as a pharmacist besides. Occasionally he says something funny on Twitter at
@JustJoshinYa
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