Take a couple of minutes to watch this searingly accurate assessment and indictment of the United States under Donald Trump. I did not hear a word with which I disagreed: Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: A Plague Nation
I wonder if Americans realize that is how their country is seen by the rest of the world, in no small measure thanks to their having elected a raging racist psychopath as their president. The following video takes a few seconds before beginning to play: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: America’s Broken Contract
Trevor Noah certainly has a way of putting things into perspective. H/t Marie Snyder (2/2) Trevor on George Floyd and the Minneapolis protests: “If you felt unease watching that Target being looted, try to imagine how it must feel for black Americans when they watch themselves being looted every single
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Distemper Of Our Times
For one who naturally inclines toward dark brooding, these are not good times. But then, if people follow the news and keep themselves reasonably well-informed about our headlong plunge toward environmental and climate disaster, I cannot imagine too many being in a celebratory mood. Except perhaps in Ontario, where the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: If The Shoe Fits
For some strange reason, this resonates with me: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: He Who Controls Language, Controls Thought
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Time To Put Away Childish Things
For a nation that calls itself the greatest country on earth, the United States has a lot of growing up to do. That is the trenchant opinion offered by Heather Mallick in today’s Star, one that is likely to earn her more than her usual quotient of hate mail from
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is A New Purge On The Horizon?
Few of us will forget the disdain with which the Harper regime regarded science, especially the science around climate change. Virtual embargoes that prevented scientists from releasing and discussing with the public their findings were commonplace; the permission that was required from a labyrinthine bureaucracy essentially ensured that no information
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Trump’s America
Somehow, the greatness is conspicuously absent: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Speaking of Our Post-Truth World
Yesterday’s post dealt with the challenges real journalism faces in this era of presidential prevarications and attacks on the media. The following video, via Mother Jones, shows what critical thinkers everywhere have to contend with. Considering the above, we, as a species, clearly have little to be arrogant about. Recommend
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: No One Escapes Blame: A Guest Post
In this guest post, my good friend Dom offers a point of view worth serious consideration. In contrast to my post yesterday, in which I heaped scorn on those who either voted for Donald Trump or absented themselves from the electoral process, Dom argues that there is plenty of blame
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Responsibilities Of Citizenship
Given the times we live in, it is not enough to simply talk the progressive talk. Action is also required. The following two videos clearly convey what we can do when circumstances demand it. And closer to home: And Michael Moore makes a very similar point: “White people, no matter
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