tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6545292244458049742..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: "A War For the Future Of the Republic." Trump's Christian Caliphate.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-79211325514759703772017-07-04T01:28:56.762-07:002017-07-04T01:28:56.762-07:00Wait a minute. Some of Canada's best "fi...Wait a minute. Some of Canada's best "first jobs" (with apologies to McDonalds) going to TFWs? That's enough of that. Wait another minute. Let's make the whole damned bunch of them "first jobs", all subsidized for as long as possible by the pension of someone from the previous generation who managed, at some point when they were still to be had, to land a job that wasn't just the next "first job".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-59769605403137965192017-07-03T17:20:41.854-07:002017-07-03T17:20:41.854-07:00Anyong....Both Harper, historians and Trudeau are ...Anyong....Both Harper, historians and Trudeau are trumpeting how Canada became a country due to Vimy Ridge. It was a darn disaster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-82752514356571005152017-07-03T15:21:33.909-07:002017-07-03T15:21:33.909-07:00BM, really. Tim Horton's sources temporary for...BM, really. Tim Horton's sources temporary foreign labour. Sheesh.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-71241583689742840762017-07-03T15:14:33.721-07:002017-07-03T15:14:33.721-07:00The "robber barons" (if you will) are de...The "robber barons" (if you will) are delighted with the conforming non-conformance of America. Sell 'em the old saw on rugged individualism and after decades we end up with the less bright among them regurgitating rubbish that pits various members of society against others, rather than coming together to form a bond against exploitation of the population at large. <br /><br />Unions are reviled and the end result is people working underpaid jobs, often several at once, just to get by. Why pay a penny more for labour than you can get away with? Yet Americans stand up on their hind legs essentially proclaiming the lack of common bonds as natural, which situation instead promotes individualism as just natural market forces at work and therefore wonderful. Socialists are for Europe, yessir, not here. <br /><br />Americans simply fail to recognize the tactic employed against them to reduce the chance that any given peon can see through the haze, and recognize he/she has been had and actually do something concrete about it. No it's all sold as patriotism and individualism at work, the way America should be by natural law. It's also utter bullshit.<br /><br />American companies sent business overseas, primarily to China, and Trump at least recognized the incoherent pain of people living in flyover country living in reduced circumstances. Thus, with typical American bombast (since it hates all foreigners due to living in "the best country in the world") and solid hucksterism, Trump managed to blame China rather than American industrialists for the loss of jobs and be believed by huge numbers of dimwits anxious to blame someone. <br /><br />Thus aggrieved and bereft of applying logic due to the rah rah American patriotism and poor schooling they receive, one ends up with a populace which blames everyone else but American capitalists themselves for the dire situation they find themselves in. Hate of all kinds is thus possible in these straitened circumstances because the belief that some outside force is responsible for the state of the nation leaves many identifiable groups susceptible to discrimination for being unAmerican or some other similar twaddle dreamt up by pulpit/dais rabble rousers, carnival barkers and people fond of their own voices. So low wages remain. Oh how Americans like to be led by some inspiring force, and a demagogue will do if nothing better is available.<br /><br />Quite the snow job the USA has received from its rich oligarchs, apparently almost entirely accomplished under the radar. Anti-intellectualism soars when thinkers proclaim the real reasons for decline, or promote environmentalism or actual science, none of which puts burgers and fries on the table of the average person. Societal rot from within due to lack of focus against the real enemy, their own super-rich. But of course, it's really all them Russians and Chinese plus Blacks, Muslims and haters of America so far as the average US dolt is concerned. Lashing out at the world is the result, because, well, they're not American.<br /><br />Yup it's a mess, and won't improve. You cannot use logic on people whose minds are already made up.<br /><br />Speaking of which, Canada seems bent on a similar road. We were beset by commercials this year about our country being the best place in the world to live, with logic a bright ten year old could see through. All on the federal government dime promoting Canada 150. If this country is regarded by its denizens as overpoweringly wonderful, any complaints will diminish or be pooh-poohed by the brainwashed, or so believe the movers and shakers in charge. It worked in the US, so why not here. Be proud of that career as a Tim Hortons coffee pourer and bagel toaster!<br /><br />BM<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com