Politics used to be good fun. It isn't now.
Politics, as we know it today, has been hijacked by screaming ideologues of the right and the left.
Neither can be trusted. Neither can be made sense of. Neither is interested in anything other than TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION of public discourse for their own murky purposes. Both grind their ideological axes exceedingly shrilly. Their all-encompassing background screech makes reason flee and rational people fall silent.
They give me a headache.
I don't much care about the Right. In my experience, right-wingers have always been looney tunes in a self-serving, cat's-paw-for-the-would-be-elite sort of way. I am comfortable in my faith that their hidden agenda will inevitably support policies that support middle-aged white guys who want to retain their privileged rung at the top of the social ladder. No mystery there.
But the Left? Holy-crapoly, what the heck can we to make of the Left?
They support the most backward, repressive social organizations on Earth simply because they are anti-American, anti-Western and -- dare I say it? -- anti-liberal. They appear to hate all industrial workers because industrial workers don't have advanced academic degrees in the social sciences or liberal arts. They despise middle-class people because middle-class people are so boringly WalMart. They dabble in a deep-ecology philosophy that urges the extermination of "surplus" populations, loves trees more than people and advocates artisan beaded bags over the advancement of human civilization.
For them, Hillary Clinton was too old and too female to be president. Autoworkers are too redneck to care about. Rural communities are too declasse to survive. All business operations are multinational greed machines. Israelis are evil. Palestinians are plucky. Iran is a hoot. America is always wrong. And the murderous Taliban are just a bunch of big-hearted freedom fighters with whom we should sit down and talk.
What a crock of knee-jerk stupidity.
Enough of these ideologues.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Boycott European products
They're at it again, those Europeans.
They destroyed the fur trade that built this country. They devastated our Atlantic fisheries. They don't like us cutting down trees or digging minerals from our lands. Now they refuse to buy our seal products.
The time come to stand up against them.
No matter what you think of the seal hunt, no self-respecting Canadian should tolerate being dictated to by a bunch of self-righteous elites who value the lives of seals above the well-being of many of our fellow Canadians.
Here's a thought. Maybe our fellow Canadians have the right to their cultures and their livelihoods.
These blowhard Europeans, however, are prepared to sacrifice ancient Canadian cultures -- be they indigenous communities or coastal Newfoundland fishing villages -- so that they can demonstrate how morally superior they are to us redneck colonials who live off the land.
These self-serving Europeans are quite prepared to accept any behaviour -- from dog-eating Chinese or whale-killing Japanese -- if it serves their economic purpose. But they can't tolerate our seal products? Give me a break.
Europeans are Inuit killers. They're Newfie haters. They attack the weakest and most vulnerable among us to make themselves look good to their politically correct friends. They and their American fellow-travellers think they're still the colonial masters who tell Canadians what they can or can't do.
There's not much we can do about them. Except this. Don't buy their products. Not one. Ever.
They destroyed the fur trade that built this country. They devastated our Atlantic fisheries. They don't like us cutting down trees or digging minerals from our lands. Now they refuse to buy our seal products.
The time come to stand up against them.
No matter what you think of the seal hunt, no self-respecting Canadian should tolerate being dictated to by a bunch of self-righteous elites who value the lives of seals above the well-being of many of our fellow Canadians.
Here's a thought. Maybe our fellow Canadians have the right to their cultures and their livelihoods.
These blowhard Europeans, however, are prepared to sacrifice ancient Canadian cultures -- be they indigenous communities or coastal Newfoundland fishing villages -- so that they can demonstrate how morally superior they are to us redneck colonials who live off the land.
These self-serving Europeans are quite prepared to accept any behaviour -- from dog-eating Chinese or whale-killing Japanese -- if it serves their economic purpose. But they can't tolerate our seal products? Give me a break.
Europeans are Inuit killers. They're Newfie haters. They attack the weakest and most vulnerable among us to make themselves look good to their politically correct friends. They and their American fellow-travellers think they're still the colonial masters who tell Canadians what they can or can't do.
There's not much we can do about them. Except this. Don't buy their products. Not one. Ever.
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