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They'll get Communism right this time, eh? I think we've heard that before a few times now.

Wonderdunce, who was hailed as a social justice hero for not following Trump's lead and banning flights from China, just banned flights from India and Pakistan. Trump figured this one out in the first month of the pandemic, it took Trudeau 16x as long. Will CTV let people call Trudeau a racist on their national news coverage now? Doubt it.

from the mouths of the GOP leader of the senate and now the GOP leader of the house. McCarthy claims no one 'questioning the legitimacy' of the 2020 election

This would not be the first such development in the history and harassment and ostracism of the Republicans who chose to stand up for Constitutional principles is a clear indicator that something is brewing. What if one of the two mainstream parties in America will shift toward authoritarianism, personality cult and neglect of democratic values and principles? What would be the consequences for the US and the rest of the world?

I can't say I'm surprised that the original horror story of Canada becoming a communist state, would carry on page after page for a good while before lack of any coherence or evidence would lead it to run out of gas, like all the other anti-left themes. How many times do paranoid rightwingers conflate every conceivable adversary who doesn't buy their bullshit, as all being enemies of FREEDUMB and part of the same plot against democracy and FREE enterprize? Too numerous to count, I'm sure! But on that theme you seem to be heading towards: "I don't think there has been a Communistic government," that sounds like the usual trope that anarchists and Trotskyites pull up when confronted about the less than perfect communist governments so far. And as far as I see, all that the Noam Chomsky-inspired critiques do is to serve the ideological rhetoric of our adversaries. The Chomskyists for example, want to have it both ways, and have a safe space to criticize everyone. But I recall that when we still had real Stalinist hardliners making arguments, that their main point was: if you want to do more than just talk, and really want a socialist internationale, you have to start somewhere! That means fighting more than rhetorical battles and confronting real enemies, like the fascists who work on behalf of wealthy oligarchs, who richly reward them for protecting them....and their wealth from the people they exploit! The problem is that, you can end up like Che Guevara, and end up hunted down and shot, if the peasants either didn't understand or weren't willing to put it all on the line for the Revolution! But, I don't believe this is about starting the revolution at the right time or not at the right time and other claptrap from Marxist theories of a science of history. Because I don't believe in the notion of human progress and increased prosperity as history progresses. Prior the the so called 'Age of Enlightenment' most earlier scholars believed that history - especially earth history was a story of cycles, not an endless line of 'progress,' leading towards some kind of materialistic heaven! In that sense, Marxism is not really distinct from other humanistic enlightenment philosophies that developed in Europe 3 to 400 years ago. Both religious or deistic and atheistic humanism, developed from a framework that the human animal was somehow distinct and superior from other life on this planet, and could rule over life on earth. This is primarily why indigenous philosophers from around the world, were not inclined to adopting Marxism, except for the latter part about political and economic organization of workplaces. Marxists come very close to the contemptible attitude towards nature that capitalist adherents of enlightenment values share. And both sides today don't have a good handle on the ecological predicament all of this 'progress' has put us in in recent times!

We've seen plenty of professors say outrageous things which the universities have actually defended because those things are coming from the far left. Also, there's no evidence what she said was even mildly unpopular with the student body as opposed to vastly unpopular with a very small cadre of politically extremist students.

There's no question that at some point populist and authoritarian crowd lacking even a shred of critical ability toward their leaders no matter what they claim (it is a confirmed fact now) would win some elections and return to power. And in their own words, the law and the Constitution work only as long as they work for them. And this is a path that has few good outcomes. We should know that from the history if we cared to remember and not repeat it.

And Trump replied: " I watched her yesterday and realized how bad she is for the Republican Party. She has no personality or anything good having to do with politics or our Country. She is a talking point for Democrats, whether that means the Border, the gas lines, inflation, or destroying our economy. She is a warmonger whose family stupidly pushed us into the never-ending Middle East Disaster, draining our wealth and depleting our Great Military, the worst decision in our Country’s history. I look forward to soon watching her as a Paid Contributor on CNN or MSDNC!" You got fired bitch. Go take your next job with the Corporate left where you belong and move on

The grifters are now in charge. The party of Lincoln no more, but then it hasn't been for years.

Neo-Cons like Cheney are Liberals. RINOs like the Lincoln project have gone full-Prog. The core Right are constitutional Republicans who believe in rights of the individual. Equality over Equity. Opportunity over outcome. Time for the clown-show of leftist party hijackers like Cheney, Romney, KInsinger, Mcarthy et al to go. It will become evident even to them in the midterm primaries that any power they thought they had is gone. The days of the Frank Luntz Republican are over.

12 confirmed cases out of 2 million doses given in Canada. Thats one in 166,666 on my calculator.

It doesn't matter what Marx opposed or warned. History shows that it lends itself to being overtaken and run by the entirely by the government. Because communism can only be sustained by authoritarianism, because it goes against basic human nature. Marx's solution to this problem was even more extreme - complete elimination and overthrow of the existing bureaucracy by continual revolution. Sure... sounds goof to me. I'll stick to tolerating moderate criminality, while still having a reasonably good life, steak dinner and a bottle of beer in the fridge. Revolution, you say? No thanks...

Actually... you are only *close*. Conservatism was traditionally about conserving.... Nixon founded the EPA George HW Bush established the innovative credit-trading system that addressed CFCs in the atmosphere Margaret Thatcher urged global action on climate change. This new halfbreed assholian conservative movements are anything but. They are fake Christians celebrating the pain and decadence of others, spendthrift deficit-makers who want to cut taxes but not spending, and people who hate education and science. The Democrats are more conservative than they are, if you remove the social justice crew that is.

Right. And I don't blame those people for wanting to socialize, and spending too much time and getting too close to neighbors living in their buildings. But, I noticed that the front lobby of my in-laws apartment building has removed the chairs and all of the furniture besides posting signs advising residents not to loiter and be on their way quickly...either to their apartments or outside where aerosolized viruses won't build up in the air and pose a danger of spreading. That may not be a perfect solution, but at least it's a start!

The difference here is that some real and true conservative people have this thing called honesty, integrity and class and those conservatives are not about to go out there and sell their souls to big pharma by buying shares and are willing to add to committing harm towards others. Many doctors have taken that do not harm oath but many do not practice that do not harm oath. Many doctors already know that many vaccines do not work. Many doctors will administer vaccines because there is money to be made from them. Not all doctors are honest and have class and integrity. Anyone can go on the internet and find that out. Of course there are some members here who thinks that everything on the internet is just full of conspiracy websites. Such imbeciles indeed. So, there are real and true Conservatives out there who do care about people, and then there are many so called liberal like conservatives who are no better than your average leftist liberal out there. They do not care as to how they make their money, just make it by either hook or by crook. it's always about the money, don't you know. Thank you, but this real and true conservative will not invest his money in things that will do or cause harm to other people. That is just me.

Same here! Although I may vote Green Party if there's (as usual) no chance for the Tories taking my riding. I would be thrilled with the NDP if they would go back to actually standing clearly for workers, promoting/not attacking unions, and not acting like 'Liberal Lite.' Talking about tax cuts, pro-business policies etc.. It seems, at least ever since Ed Broadbent was NDP leader, whenever the Libs are down, the NDP will try to triangulate their way to the center, where the Liberal Party stakes out their turf. The old PC's already did it way too much, so that in typical elections in the 60's and 70's, the only issue separating Libs and Cons was on the unresolved terms of confederation: provincial vs federal powers. There may have once been a time when the majority of Canadians were feeling comfortable with their lives and the kind of government they had...and that benefits centrist Libs...especially like Justin, who can turn into the White Obama when he's answering questions at a news conference and talks out of both sides of his mouth! The only time anyone attempted to hold him to account in 2015, was when some natives who didn't want tarsands and other pipelines running through their territory, confronted him about which side he was on at the time the Government was proposing four new pipelines. And now it's because he's trying to perch on that sharp picket fence again and not take a stand on patent waivers. An issue where it is completely impossible to play rhetoric that will not infuriate either the global oligarchs or billions of people who want something done about a system that allows vaccine hoarding by the US and England, while many poor nations in Africa and Asia still have received nothing! Yet the US is threatening every nation, enemies and allies alike, if they turn to their enemies (Russia, China, Cuba) for cheaper vaccines. Imagine if a Canadian leader had the guts to say 'if you don't tell Pfizer and Moderna to follow through with the deliveries we ordered, we'll cancel them and call one of the nations on your banned list!' I know, it can't happen considering who we're talking about, and the post-NAFTA world we live in now. But back when Trudeau Sr. was the PM, I could easily see it could have happened!

Less support than he used to have; a counter to your claim that people think he's godlike - or some such nonsense claim you've made. I suppose if Conservatives offered something Canadians want, JT would not have the support he has. It's odd that Conservatives put forth their ideas and have them rejected by the majority, and then blame everybody else instead of considering that maybe they're the ones who've got it wrong. If Conservatives have such good ideas, they'd present them and gain the support they want. Instead they act all butthurt that their social/fiscal conservative/regressive ideas are rejected, and call non-conservatives lazy, greedy and communists. But I suppose that all makes sense to you. In the meantime, I'm considering either not voting at all, or voting NDP - not cause I love their ideas so much, but purely as a protest vote against both Liberal and Conservatives. Just like everybody, I'd like a government that considered more than just their own convenience and power.

They were good but also a little oversimplified at times. Mostly it gets you thinking a little bigger than most readable books on the topic.

Yep. That’s why I have no use for the Trump haters. They’re almost all hypocrites and liars.