tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6732719932892256999..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Is Donald Trump Sounding the Death Knell of America's Elite?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8073302477892837622016-02-29T17:57:29.213-08:002016-02-29T17:57:29.213-08:00You're right, Sal, and I have to learn some me...<br />You're right, Sal, and I have to learn some measure of patience that's eluded me at times. There may be matters on which the government's hands are tied but they have to explain that to us, justify themselves, and it's our right to judge that for ourselves. To dismiss these war wagons as "jeeps"is not confidence building.<br /><br />I am pleased and grateful for many of the things JT's Libs have done - CBC funding, taking the gags off our scientists, the First Native women's enquiry and more but I want to see him show as much sand on the big issues. The government's capitulation on the Tories' BDS motion is appalling. The still secretive Saudi arms deal is appalling. When it comes to weighing good versus bad, too often the good seem mainly gestural, low hanging fruit, while the bad seem particularly substantive, issues that go to the integrity of the party that governs us. That's where I have trouble.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35738444794401306072016-02-29T17:30:51.272-08:002016-02-29T17:30:51.272-08:00.. we need to be very clear that our previous Cana..... we need to be very clear that our previous Canadian government modeled itself on, evolved from.. very toxic extensions, tactics and situational ethics of rabid GOP dogma.. The only real difference or saving grace being that Canada is approx 6% evangelical, while the USA is approx 20% or more. But make no mistake, the evolving Harper era political animals and loyalists, were and are quite capable of fitting into the verious molds offered up currently by Trump, Cruz, Rubio and many who have been removed from the GOP nomination race. We may have dodged a bullet by trashing Harper himself.. but his remnants are working now on their next disguise.. slathering the pig with lipstick. Trudeau needs to come clean.. or clear out. If he can't be honest enough to admit his government is hamstrung or struggling to clean up government, patronage, the selling out, shake off the corporate captured status, the whipped votes, the shady trade deals, the shrinking media courage or actual journalism etc etc.. then the people will have to take to the streets and make their will clear and evident. The spying, the failed RCMP, the misaimed military, abandoned Coast Guard, fisheries under assault, Big Energy.. it all has to get cleaned up.. the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.com