tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5852007247425686190..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Don't Get Smug, We're Really Not That Much BetterThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35986095416943266562008-05-19T13:48:00.000-07:002008-05-19T13:48:00.000-07:00I agree that democracy is healthier in Canada but ...I agree that democracy is healthier in Canada but the past decade has shown us how the confluence of a traumatic incident, an unscrupulous government and a complacent media can shake an entire people into the wholesale capitulation of their democratic institutions and traditions.<BR/><BR/>When I was a kid I used to wonder how the German people came to embrace the Nazis. Were they really that different than us? More to the point, could we actually follow their path in the right circumstances?<BR/><BR/>I no longer have any doubt on that. I've seen how readily we can be manipulated and herded into positions we would normally abhor.<BR/><BR/>In Canada we've never come particularly close to that edge but we fail to appreciate that it's never as far off as we'd like to imagine.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-16353143940717790232008-05-19T12:24:00.000-07:002008-05-19T12:24:00.000-07:00There's never any need to be smug, but Canada trul...There's never any need to be smug, but Canada truly is much, much better. The only way to say "we're really not that much better" is to not really grasp what's going on in the US. <BR/><BR/>Canada still has a functioning democracy. The US has a dictatorship with a fake democracy maintained for show. There hasn't been a real presidential election there since 1996. <BR/><BR/>And that's just the beginning. <BR/><BR/>We should never be smug. But things are <I>much</I> better here.laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15161072466758234872008-05-19T12:10:00.000-07:002008-05-19T12:10:00.000-07:00Bill Moyers is a great mind. He is so right.If med...Bill Moyers is a great mind. He is so right.<BR/><BR/>If mediocre like Bush can become president, who otherwise will not be hired as a shoeshine boy, that reveals it all that only wealth and privilege matters in the current ‘democracy’.<BR/><BR/>We have Harper who parrots everything Bush says and waits for Bush's lead for every action; gives us some idea where we are heading in Canada. Abe Lincolns of the world have left the stage of this planet for good – I hope I am wrong on this.LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15981243928780647782008-05-19T11:36:00.000-07:002008-05-19T11:36:00.000-07:00We are better off. But I sure ain't smug anymore ....We are better off. But I sure ain't smug anymore ....<BR/>We got <BR/>* paper ballots and Elections Canada (at least for now).<BR/>* A center-left tradition.<BR/>for how much longer?<BR/><BR/>Our media has the same disease as the US media ... it just hasn't progressed as far.Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.com