(Sorry. I had to add to and rearrange a previous post. Forgive my repetition in parts.)
We’ve learned a few things in the last while about how to say things so as not to be nasty monsters as may be in some of our natures. One such thing would be how we have learned to label people’s actions rather than the person. As an example, you cannot say that Canadian parliamentarians “are” ignorant arses. You must say Canadian parliamentarians “acted” like ignorant arses. Since you can change actions but not personhood, this leaves them room to improve rather than fatalistically accepting that they might be in fact ignorant arses. However, I digress...
There’s just not enough popcorn for this movie.
There’s probably not enough corn to make that popcorn either but that is neither here nor there. The important thing to remember is you’re not insane seeing what you’re seeing. Our leaders however appear to have a few rooms for rent in their heads and that is real estate whose value is depreciating at a great rate.
So I guess I’ll have to say I’m sorry because I’m Canadian.
I’m sorry that our country, of all countries, would be entertaining and/or horrifying the whole world with our outrageous politicians. If any thing can be said on our behalf it would be that, because of the way elections work here, less than 30% of the population voted for the present leadership.
I guess all this ruckus over the Canadian politicians giving standing ovations for a bonified Nazi Waffen SS officer kind of took the pressure off the discussion of $600 million dollars going off to the Ukraine for war. I think that makes a total so far of $1.2 billion.
Don’t get me wrong. We Canadians love democracy. We used to have it for the longest time. We care about Ukrainians. Truly we do. We’re just in serious debt and we can’t rob Peter to pay Paul anymore. Peter is sitting on a street corner with his bowl out so we think you should talk to some of the elite oligarchs. See if they can sell a yacht or jet or two to help. That would pretty much cover most of it.
It is time for the grown ups to take over. The children are out of hand again. Of course when the adults may actually be children themselves we could end up in The Lord of the Flies. We’ll likely move from far left into the far right because of course, children are mostly only capable of black and white thinking.
Sadly we stand to lose most of the progress we’ve made on so many social justice issues right now, it’s frightening in that respect. But let us not think about that now.
I figure when faced with two leaders with opposing views, you look to see where both these leaders actually agree on things. There’s the tell. It will become policy because there will be no opposition. (What politicians actually “do” with promises when elected seems to be a crapshoot these days but we all know that.) Unfortunately we don’t get a lot of information on things they agree on because the differences are so much more entertaining.
One thing we could look at in Canada e.g. is which of the two leaders supports peace over war? What effort have they made long before all this started to promote, help negotiate and/or stand for peace? Or at least applaud those who have tried with as much enthusiasm as they have Mr. Zelensky?
Where, I just wonder, were the peacemakers when Russia invaded either because they were provoked or because they were acting like monsters or the people of Donbass and Crimea wanted and needed them to or its all part of the Great Plan we’re not privy to?
In the end does it matter? What happened happened and we are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been in history or so we’re told. (The Cuban missile crisis has nothing on this climate.) Where were the peacemakers before and during this outrage? Where are they now? Just a question I have.
The other question I would ask is do they know any history whatsoever? Any? Every single one of Canada’s parliamentarians stood up and applauded an actual Nazi. Every. Single. One. Despite being told the person they were honouring fought against the Russians.
Now I know it might be hard to believe, but Russia was once our ally. They were. I tell no lie. Back in the day when history was history and not a rewrite of what you think it should have been. When you couldn’t do things such as ask that this particular “incident” be stricken from the parliamentary record as if it didn’t happen and go on your merry way. And as if everyone would agree to that. (And yes, this REALLY was requested.) So I might also ask have you not read Orwell? At all? Funny that is because most of us have.
If you’re in a different country just watch what the leaders aren’t talking about and what they agree on. It might help to make a decision come election time.
All the World’s a Stage and they’ve basically locked us into the theatre. There are a few bad actors I’d say.
Earworm: (oh I probably did this one before but so what)
When I wake up, I ask myself what would shock me. More often than not, that's what I will read in the newspaper.