tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7830690003740407458..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Plot to Assassinate DemocracyThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-85289926058625147742017-07-19T19:34:18.650-07:002017-07-19T19:34:18.650-07:00Mound;
Perhaps those,
https://thefederalist.com/20...Mound;<br />Perhaps those,<br />https://thefederalist.com/2017/07/11/heres-many-republicans-view-americas-colleges-universities-negatively/<br />that fear education are the ones that cherish the gun?<br /><br />That said there is something to fear from some universities that are shackled to big business?<br /><br /><br />,https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2010/09/10/excerpt_the_trouble_with_billionaires_by_linda_mcquaig_and_neil_brooks.html<br /><br /><br />TB<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36495312136958662892017-07-19T11:32:51.129-07:002017-07-19T11:32:51.129-07:00In reverting to an era in which education and know...In reverting to an era in which education and knowledge is not merely discounted but actively despised, the citizenry is hobbled by fetters they freely wear. Think of that recent study in which Republican respondents by a significant majority said that universities and colleges were not a positive force in America.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-84830719118675978272017-07-19T11:14:32.938-07:002017-07-19T11:14:32.938-07:00The destruction of a strong, vibrant public educat...The destruction of a strong, vibrant public education system renders citizens incapable of solving the problems they face. That destruction is now well advanced.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35625987371292318612017-07-19T11:03:02.105-07:002017-07-19T11:03:02.105-07:00I don't think any of it was serendipity.I don't think any of it was serendipity. Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-84078565575300095352017-07-19T10:06:27.988-07:002017-07-19T10:06:27.988-07:00As I recall it (loosely), prior to the progressive...<br />As I recall it (loosely), prior to the progressive era the general population was pretty complacent, more or less resigned to its fate. For a number of years I've been wondering if the populace, especially of the United States, hadn't been groomed, deliberately conditioned, to a return to those pre-progressive days. People have become stupid today, enough to leave them less capable of critical thinking and more easily distracted especially by messaging that appeals to their fears, biases and basest instincts. I'm less convinced than ever that this was inadvertent or accidental.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-54691135153753598722017-07-19T09:45:26.195-07:002017-07-19T09:45:26.195-07:00As long as their fave teevee programs aren't a...As long as their fave teevee programs aren't affected, the shopping channel doesn't close up shop and PizzaPizza still delivers I don't see the majority of people even noticing. Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-29305565516944472412017-07-19T08:51:36.493-07:002017-07-19T08:51:36.493-07:00It's an effort to eradicate the last traces of...<br />It's an effort to eradicate the last traces of progressivism which clears the path for the extinction of democracy. Increasingly, voices are speaking out about the rise of neo-feudalism in what had been thought of as liberal democracies.<br /><br />Abraham Lincoln observed the constant struggle between labour and capital and held it was the duty of government to see that these competing interests were kept in a rough balance that slightly favoured labour. Neoliberal globalization of the sort embraced by every political leader in our country, purges Lincoln's philosophy and that of the progressives who followed.<br /><br />Since Mulroney joined with Thatcher and Reagan in ushering in the age of neoliberal rule, no one has acknowledged that free trade deals advantage capital on political as well as economic terms. It creates inequality not just of wealth and income but also of political influence and those things, in each case, are siphoned out of the working classes, blue and white collar.<br /><br />I won't suggest that Mulroney, Chretien, Martin, Harper and Trudeau were conspirators plotting the ruin of the Canadian people. Individually or taken collectively they weren't that smart. Their neglect has been largely inadvertent. They accepted an orthodoxy which is entirely belief-based, much like any religion.<br /><br />I think the last leader we had with the intellectual prowess to see through this was Pierre Trudeau. They've all been technocratic duds since then, administrators, petit fonctionnaires. I noted this several years ago in a post in which I presented Harper as the "fractional prime minister" based on those aspects of governance with which he engaged and others which he simply ignored as though his mandate was only to govern partially.<br /><br />Look at Trudeau, another fractional. His response to climate change? A carbon tax. There's a guy who is not engaging on the greatest threat facing our country and every other today.<br /><br />The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80314244844469993242017-07-19T08:20:24.917-07:002017-07-19T08:20:24.917-07:00As US Justice Brandeis noted in a previous age of ...As US Justice Brandeis noted in a previous age of massive income inequality:<br /><br /><i>We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.</i><br /><br />We're back in the same place we were 100 years ago, with a new era of robber barons manipulating government to gut regulations and concentrate private power. The difference now is that the social coherence that led people to counter by forming labour unions and taking other collective action has been atomized by the oligarchs' sustained and highly successful propaganda campaign. As <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B" rel="nofollow">Gilens and Page</a> established through empirical analysis three years ago, the US is an oligarchy, not a democracy.<br /><br />CapAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76254519823627226312017-07-19T08:10:32.724-07:002017-07-19T08:10:32.724-07:00Funny how far-fetched conspiracy theories abound w...Funny how far-fetched conspiracy theories abound while the real conspiracy is ignored. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19843159477282128272017-07-19T03:37:02.270-07:002017-07-19T03:37:02.270-07:00Obviously the reasons why other powerful nations h...Obviously the reasons why other powerful nations have always been in awe of China being able to pull it off. Free trade was the first real big instalment on the way to despot totalitarianism. Bust the unions, move the jobs offshore for a time and with the chaos and destruction, bring the jobs back to the broken begging labour force.zoombatsnoreply@blogger.com