tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5245297294166061288..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Life in a Graceless StateThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3552955217607030222019-03-11T10:04:49.417-07:002019-03-11T10:04:49.417-07:00An addendum to Karl's list.
Rule #3: Elect a...An addendum to Karl's list.<br /><br />Rule #3: Elect an immoral, boorish trust fund brat whose life has been coddled, with several failed businesses as president and watch him give billionaires more tax cuts who instead of reinvesting in the economy (trickle down theory anyone?) buy more stocks instead. Watch unnecessary tariffs cost domestic businesses billions. Watch the debt skyrocket. See the nation descend into havoc.<br /><br />Rule #4: Blame the Libs as justification for voting the trust fund brat as president. Continue in that vein.<br /><br /><br />mr perfect Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48454648409118936982019-03-11T09:10:11.340-07:002019-03-11T09:10:11.340-07:00.. hmm
'political leaders' - fixing someth..... hmm<br />'political leaders' - fixing something..<br />Last I looked.. at the broad spectrum of highly diseased 'politics' across North America, that's like thinking 'hope' is an actual strategy.. or the answers like in seeking out your lord & savior. The best arguements rattling around our domicile center on the complete lack of practical solutions being overwhelved by carping MainMedia that caters to neoliberal fantasy and fuckery. Said another way.. a whole lot of whining and blamegame.. no solution suggested or desired. The partisan infighting is the new 'demockracy' - spy versus spy (Mad Magazine for them that not knows)<br /><br />I can only whine about sidewalks that are not shoveled or plowed if I'm unwilling to just pitch in and just do something about it. So I do. By the way, too .. we have had 4 serious sidewalk falls this winter, two each.. on sidewalks, solar melt, frozen overnight, dusted with podwe snow<br /><br />On a larger scale we have Pictou, Nova Scotia and the Boat Harour scandal. That entire town needs a Federal buyout. So resell, the Alberta/BC pipeline and divert the funds to Pictou. Immediately close the pulp mill & ensure syncronously shiting all people, business etc into a 'Remediation Based Economy' and local culture. Let nobody miss a paycheck as all directly and indirectly employed on contracting people are dicerted and converted onto remediation. What is the alternative? Keep pumping dioxins, furans, chloride and mercury.. and dumping a million plus litres or gallons of effluent direct from the 'settling lake' to Northumberland Strait to be sucked out on the ebb tide? (they periodically dredge and 'dispose' of toxic sediment elsewhere..)<br /><br />The point is .. what level of 'political leadership' will be required to accomplish this ??<br />Extend the scope and scale now.. to say The Alberta Tar Sands aspect of Toxification to Remediation. Or consider the remediation of dead wells in Alberta or in British Columbia. Or that total plus the annual accumulation of more played out or abandoned wells, related pads, frackwater and produced water, access roads, incoming water pipeline, electric power access or generation, pumping stations or collector points. What political leadership on so many public service levels, local, provincial, federal levels can initiate and manage this herculean industry and transition to ??<br /><br />We mainly are provided political hacks at the provincial and federal levels to consider (or not bother) and/or vote for. We then look after them handsomely. Look at how many multi millionaires have come from The Conservative Party of Canada.. in government or across the House Floor as Opposition.. keep in mind the joint access in caucus, to privileged and/or conflict of interest level information. <br /><br />If I spent one day per political party, attempting to find the 'political leadership' required to turn this country named Canada around.. or at least wake it up, shake it up, fix it up.. what would I find? Five such exemplars? Ten? I would speculate I could search essentially any other sector than 'politics' and find better 'leadership' with ease.. and in large numbers. The compelling realities described in your post suggest such leaders must be pressed into service.the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36903489680225335252019-03-11T06:59:47.112-07:002019-03-11T06:59:47.112-07:00Hi, Rural. You would have thought our political ca...Hi, Rural. You would have thought our political caste would have responded somehow to polls over the last couple of years suggesting that our young people are becoming less supportive of democracy, failing to see the utility of it (or rather what passes for democracy today) in their own lives.<br /><br />Climate change, for example, is a stress test for democracy. It's on difficult issues like that, which pose a great threat to our young people, where they can see how reluctant our governments are to really intercede on their behalf.<br /><br />In my view, we have expunged progressivism from our politics and surely that is the beating heart of democracy, the place where grace and virtue are anchored. Purged of all that, what emerges is a degraded democracy lacking vision and focusing on short term priorities measured in electoral cycles. That's what we have today. The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-75737004960200809702019-03-11T06:51:56.913-07:002019-03-11T06:51:56.913-07:00
Karl, grow up. Just a bit, please?<br />Karl, grow up. Just a bit, please?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-78988335653669383142019-03-11T04:02:42.968-07:002019-03-11T04:02:42.968-07:00Thanks for that Mound, having been writing about o...Thanks for that Mound, having been writing about our democracy for around ten years now its good to see that other folks are still as concerned about preserving and improving what we have as it is gradually eroded by the likes of Ford & Trump and many others. That new tribalism you mention in passing is fueled in no small measure in my view by the ease and widespread use of 'social media ' with which any knee jerk reaction to anything is spread and amplified whether accurate or not. The instant communication of today's world has impacted our democratic systems in ways in which we have not yer fully realized, and not necessarily in a positive way.<br /><br />I shall read the The Economist series with great interest as I reduce my own writings on the subject, it being about much of the same abuse just from different players.Ruralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814103548500393628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6713577622388745492019-03-10T19:01:36.312-07:002019-03-10T19:01:36.312-07:00Another example of just what a pack of bought off,...Another example of just what a pack of bought off, craven cowards today's Ivy League "thinkers" are.<br /><br />Rules for "fixing Democracy."<br /><br />Rule #1: End extreme wealth inequality.<br /><br />Rule #2: If Rule #1 fails, break out the pitchforks and guillotine. Karl Kolchaknoreply@blogger.com