I can't really deny what you're saying here, but that second Bush term is still the only one where a majority voted for a Republican (I certainly didn't vote for him, but what happened happened). It isn't just "a lot of good ones". It is most of us (I am dual citizen, to be clear -- living in Canada since 2009).
I can't really deny what you're saying here, but that second Bush term is still the only one where a majority voted for a Republican (I certainly didn't vote for him, but what happened happened). It isn't just "a lot of good ones". It is most of us (I am dual citizen, to be clear -- living in Canada since 2009).
The Christian conservative elements have been working since around my father's birth in the 50s for what is happening today. Relentlessly. One of the ways they did that was the district gerrymandering that is part of the reason these Republicans keep winning even though most of us aren't voting for them.
What I mean to say is, we still need your sympathy. Most of us don't want what is happening, and surely you've seen the same elements working up here, too. Maybe we can stop it from going as far as it has down there. I worry that putting in too much of an us/them dichotomy will make Canadians less vigilant and allow it to happen here too. I mean look at Ontario. Ford's PCs have won two majorities and that is even with all the bad things he's doing to our environment and our healthcare.
I'm sympathetic, of course - what a nightmare to feel responsible for a torture camp because your side couldn't muster the votes. I've had to withdraw interest, entirely, because it automatically brings sympathy, and I just can't emotionally afford it any more.
For instance, I went from astonishment to anger&contempt at the Obama administration, then finally to sympathy. Could not *believe* he could leave open torture camps, not end illegal war, but finally realized that ObamaCare passed by ONE vote...and that, because Obama had to husband his every drop of political capital to get there.
And then THAT was backlashed not with just a 1000-seat loss but, OMG, Trump. The jump from Carter to Reagan was teeny in comparison.
So !@#$ 'em. Sudan doesn't break my heart because I don't know or care about their politics, and carefully don't start to. I was years disengaging from hope for Afghanistan, when I realized they wouldn't, as a nation, change, despite all the many, many sympathetic victims there. I'll just feel bad, every day for the rest of my life, if I let myself care about Afghanistan. Or Sudan. Or Ohio. Sorry.
I get what you mean. We all have to preserve our mental health even at the best of times, and we are not in the best of times right now, that's for sure.
And agreed. I voted so excitedly for Obama in 2008 and it didn't take long for me to realize he was, for the most part, business as usual. A disappointment.
I can't really deny what you're saying here, but that second Bush term is still the only one where a majority voted for a Republican (I certainly didn't vote for him, but what happened happened). It isn't just "a lot of good ones". It is most of us (I am dual citizen, to be clear -- living in Canada since 2009).
The Christian conservative elements have been working since around my father's birth in the 50s for what is happening today. Relentlessly. One of the ways they did that was the district gerrymandering that is part of the reason these Republicans keep winning even though most of us aren't voting for them.
What I mean to say is, we still need your sympathy. Most of us don't want what is happening, and surely you've seen the same elements working up here, too. Maybe we can stop it from going as far as it has down there. I worry that putting in too much of an us/them dichotomy will make Canadians less vigilant and allow it to happen here too. I mean look at Ontario. Ford's PCs have won two majorities and that is even with all the bad things he's doing to our environment and our healthcare.
I'm sympathetic, of course - what a nightmare to feel responsible for a torture camp because your side couldn't muster the votes. I've had to withdraw interest, entirely, because it automatically brings sympathy, and I just can't emotionally afford it any more.
For instance, I went from astonishment to anger&contempt at the Obama administration, then finally to sympathy. Could not *believe* he could leave open torture camps, not end illegal war, but finally realized that ObamaCare passed by ONE vote...and that, because Obama had to husband his every drop of political capital to get there.
And then THAT was backlashed not with just a 1000-seat loss but, OMG, Trump. The jump from Carter to Reagan was teeny in comparison.
So !@#$ 'em. Sudan doesn't break my heart because I don't know or care about their politics, and carefully don't start to. I was years disengaging from hope for Afghanistan, when I realized they wouldn't, as a nation, change, despite all the many, many sympathetic victims there. I'll just feel bad, every day for the rest of my life, if I let myself care about Afghanistan. Or Sudan. Or Ohio. Sorry.
I get what you mean. We all have to preserve our mental health even at the best of times, and we are not in the best of times right now, that's for sure.
And agreed. I voted so excitedly for Obama in 2008 and it didn't take long for me to realize he was, for the most part, business as usual. A disappointment.