Introducing: The Mailbag of Destiny
You've got questions. I've got answers. Or I'll find answers. One way or another, we'll get some answers around here.
I get a lot of questions from folks, mostly about politics, but not exclusively. I love getting questions. I don’t always have time to answer them, but I always want to because 1) I like people, 2) I’m a compulsive completionist, and 3) It’s my job.
To facilitate answering more questions, I’m launching the Mailbag of Destiny (the name is negotiable). From time to time, I’ll call for questions and, you guessed it, answer as many of them as I can. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll find someone who does, ask them, double check their answers, put their answers in context, and report back to you. It’s a pioneering new form of writing I’m calling journalism. It can’t fail.
The Mailbag of Destiny will be for paid subscribers only, so after this week I’ll reserve the call for questions and subsequent answers to those accounts so that I’m not spamming everyone. Because here at the Moscrop newsletter, We Care™.
Okay, so, if you want to be a part of the Mailbag of Destiny, sign up below for a paid account:
If you’re already a paid member (thank you for that), please send any questions you have and I’ll answer them late next week. Feel free to ask about politics, art, culture, Lego, setting up a sick Sonos speaker system, or anything within reason and the limits of respectability. You can submit your questions in the comments, by e-mail, or through the Substack message function:
In the future, I may answer questions by video sometimes, if people prefer. I can’t stand looking at my face or hearing my voice, but if you can, well, by god we’ll do that. Because here at the Moscrop newsletter, We Care™.
As always, thanks for reading and thanks advance in for your questions. I can’t wait to answer them.
OK ... here's a challenge ... you may/may not want to respond to. Household economic pressures are rising in concern and it manifest itself in the latest election. The root cause is neoliberalism (economic theory) introduced & promoted by Thatcher/Regan/Mulroney and practiced ever since. Like most balls when they start to roll downhill, they become difficult to stop. Do you think the governing party in Canada can contain/reverse neoliberalism by changing the economic pathway through Policy? Can shareholder supremacy finally be contained by proper taxation - which should assist with a better distribution of wealth? This looks like two questions but it's really just one - with two parts.
Is a 5% GDP Defence spending budget not only realistic, but sustainable?