Category: Politics
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An American Pope and the Sociopath’s Commandments
A Satirical Consideration for the Conclave in Waiting Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Trump wants an American pope. Well hallelujah. Strange though, Vance met the Pope yesterday, and he died. I suppose it was all the good vibes he oozed from his pores, eh Vance? I mean, such a pious, honest and upstanding…
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The Gathering Storm
Tomorrow, America will decide its future, and Americans will either seek to continue the great democratic experiment of America or decry democracy in favour of an amorphous and dangerous future. A future not only filled with uncertainty, but one without stability or predictability. Not since 1861 has America been so divided. Slavery was the issue…
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You – As A Historical Republican Voter, Will Destroy America’s Democracy
It’s hard for most of us who are rational, living outside of the United States, to conceive of living in an autocracy. Most of us have no living memory of what living in an autocracy means, and very few WWII survivors remain alive, so there is no living public memory of fascism as an existential…
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Fake News and the Death of Journalism
The right wing of the Republican Party has managed to achieve what commerce and the dynamics of business could not in relation to the news industry and journalism as a whole. It has made it irrelevant. By simply declaring that ‘alternate facts’ are not just acceptable, but worthy of belief, without any proof, it has…
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The Pending Implosion
Implosions are events that occur without warning, yet with respect to America’s future, anyone who isn’t blind can see what’s coming. We are now on the verge of watching history repeat itself. When a dictator comes to power with an agenda for scapegoating, hatred and retribution, we are on the road to recreating the 1930’s…
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A New Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
If America elects trump and turns its back on ‘leadership’ in relation to democratic states, thereby seeking isolationism, America will bring about the next World War. How it occurs, and which spark initiates it is not central to its occurrence, isolationism, is. Just as Eisenhower ensured a stable democratic alliance against the Soviet Union, by…
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Canada: At a Crossroads
Canada is at a crossroads. Closely aligned with the United States, it finds itself in a position that would have been unthinkable a scant ten years ago. Should Canada acquiesce to American populism, or should Canada chart a new path that would see it redefine its interests? The United States, under trump, will withdraw from…
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Why “Weirdo” Unnerves the Right.
It’s interesting that the extreme right are not offended by words like traitors, thieves, kleptocrats, sociopaths, pathological liars and perverts, but call them weirdos, and suddenly they’re deeply offended. It speaks to the fact that the right have no concept for what is abnormal, unfit, antisocial and unacceptable. But call them weird? Well they know…
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It’s Time For a Realignment of Wealth
The gap between rich and poor, has never been greater. Today’s Billionaires, soon to be Trillionaires possess unspendable fortunes while ordinary worker’s wages have been stagnant for decades, and the poorest are living in tents on America’s streets. There is a point at which the lack of fairness combined with the countries enormous social problems…
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What Happens When Political Identity Overrides Rationality?
Democracy or Autocracy? This will likely be my last article in relation to what is happening with respect to democracy in the United States, as it appears America has set its own path and will soon have to live with the outcome. Being a citizen of Canada, I have never lived in an autocratic state,…