A (Canadian) friend has recently started distributing aggressive propaganda about Trump and the Americans – blaming them for collapse in US-Canada trade talks. Other Canadians have stopped speaking with anyone who is not spouting vitriol against the US President. Even someone, like myself, who is neither into Trump Worship nor Trump Bashing, has to endure this kind of mind abuse from fellow Canadians who seem to be worked into a frenzy, and I’m hard pressed to find people conversing rationally about what’s going on. (Did I use the word “converse”?)
I find conversations like the recent one between Dr. Farrell and Dark Journalist (re: Project Rainbow) to be more interesting, more insightful, with respect to interests affecting the US President (that no one around here wants to talk about).
I am quite concerned about everything that’s wrong in Canada being blamed on Trump! People look south of the border instead of at themselves. What’s wrong in Canada is partly due to personal choices Canadians have made about everything in our lives: the commercial systems we support, the products we buy, the food and medicines we choose to ingest, the news and noises we take in, the books we read, the politicians we elect, the schooling we choose (and thereby support), the arts we support, the clubs and churches we join (and in whose local ideologies we participate), the friends we choose, and on and on and on. Our lifestyles say everything about what we support, and therefore, to me, this TDS (as it is called) is nothing but an absolving of personal responsibility in the outcomes of our lives.
A lot of Canadians are posting vitriol directed at USA for the trade talk collapse, and I offer here a couple of articles by Canadians who don’t blame the USA for everything that’s wrong in Canada.
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The Communist Blueprint that’s Destroying the West (Karla Treadway interviews James Lindsay, an American): The Communist Blueprint That's Destroying the West
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Carney Sabotages US Trade Relations (James Pew): Carney Sabotages U.S. Trade Relations - by James Pew