Trump's Insane Iran War Has Started Again! The Streets of Whore Moose are CLOSED! OPEN! CLOSED! OPEN! CLOSED! #TACO both the USA and Iran are bombing...

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and just yesterday I Wondered... 

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Will $300 Billion Dollars Make Iran Great Again? #TACO TRUMP SURRENDERS! The War is "OVER" ---  The War in Iran Was Not Just a Failure; It Was a MAGA Failure!

Before the war with Iran began the national average for a gallon of regular gas was $2.96. Now it's $4.00 per gallon, following a tentative peace deal that pushed prices down from a peak of $4.55 --- And there's no reason to believe that the gas prices will ever go back down... Big Profits! for Big Oil & the Stock Market... You Pay, They Win.

Some Guy on Faceborg Said: Trump is a demented old man. Trump’s war accomplished nothing – the Iran deal is proof. No one gets a Nobel peace prize for ending a war HE started. No amount of Donald Trump’s spin can obscure the fact that his newly announced deal with Iran is one big lesson in why this war should never have been launched. If there is a silver lining in this debacle, it is that the utter failure of Trump’s military adventure in Iran may give him pause before trying another...

Boycott Trump's Insane Iran War! REFUSE TO BUY GASOLINE. REFUSE TO FLY IN JET AIRPLANES. Simply "Be Here Now" Instead. This year, the "Staycation" is what's happening!

Do Gas Prices Make You Unhappy? Take the Bus. Ride a Bike. Get an Electric Car. Walk, Or just Stay Home! Since I Don't Own a Car... Gasoline price increases are not directly in my face... It must really suck to go to a gas station now... And be forced to pay outrageous prices... So much travel is involuntary... Commuting to work... Or going to the grocery store... Or going to doctor's appointments...

I feel certain that the grocery stores that deliver food here are charging more money to cover the extra costs of delivery... But I pay rent that includes food, laundry, mowing the lawn, Cooking, cleaning... everything...

I live at an old folks home and I see on TV news that other people are having problems... And quite often I just change the channel... Evidently, flying on commercial airlines is a mess with long wait times for the TSA people to check for terrorist bombs and box cutters it could be used to hijack the airplane...

I haven't flown in a jet airplane in over 25 years... So the problems of the "Jet Set" seem remote... I keep wondering: Why don't those people just wake the f*ck up? Getting a clue is an alternative!

Obviously, travel is something that we just cannot afford these days with the disaster economy given us by Mad King Donald... 

Why not fly a Jefferson Airplane instead?

If you use a match from a matchbook to light your marijuana cigarette, when you get down to the end it's hard to hold... So if you take that burnt match and split it in half... You can put the cigarette in the split half... And that's what a Jefferson Airplane is... Part that you hold is like a biplane... 

And

Secret Trick to Life: Learn How To Do a FACT CHECK on Google (or BING... or Duck Duck Go...) That Way People CAN'T Lie to You. Because You Refuse To Believe Their Lies...Simply Type the Words "Fact Check" and the Statement You Want to Verify... Read the Results... It Can Be Quite Eye Opening!




Music Video: Did You Ever Notice Reality? by Greg Vanderlaan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPthFNI07Qo

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Owning a Gun INCREASES the Chance of Having a Gun Accident. Suicides increase too... More Family Lives are LOST than Lives Saved Defending Yourself from "Bad Guys."

This is a Blessing for Mankind Because Dead People Don't Have Children... and The Defective "Gun Nut" Gene ENDS HERE...






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and It Seems Like the Human Race is Evolving into Two Separate Species... Like the Morlocks and The Eloi of HG Wells Time Machine... QAnon and The Followers of Donald Trump are Evolving into a Hate Fueled Race of Primitive Anger Monsters... While We The People are Becoming One... Online... Merging, Evolving, Learning... and Eventually (With our Computer Friends) We Will Become a Totally Different Animal... a Man/Machine Hybrid... Like Dr. Isaac Asimov's C/Fe Culture...


We Have Already Created Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica... Where all Knowledge of Mankind is Stored... To Help us Re-Grow Civilization after a Collapse of Society and a Era of Hunter Gatherers... It's Wikipedia... The Pages Supply a Simple and Concise Rendition of the Knowledge... and The Footnotes Provide Links to The Source of the Facts.


I Have Contributed What I Know... It's Very Difficult to Find a Subject that Has NOT Already Been Thoroughly Documented... But I Did add One Sentence to the Forbes Mill in Los Gatos, California Page. "It was then abandoned and finally, in 1971, it was revived as a youth center for Los Gatos with live rock music on Friday and Saturday nights."


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I heard a Worthy Song on the Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe Show... So I Wrote Down Every Word...

Transcript: Larisa Stow Says: "Hello. Hello Scott. Hello Everyone. We Are So Grateful To Be here With You. As To Be Part of this Show That is About Sacred Activism. For Me Sacred Activism Means That We Are FOR Something That You Care About.
That It's About Love. and It's about really standing up for what we are passionately, what Passionately Care About in Life. Rather Than Being Against Something. So, It's about Raising our Vibration and reaching out our hands and sharing our hearts... and Gandhi, This is one of my favorite Examples... Is That, In South Africa When there was this Oppression Against the Indians. Gandhi made friends with the Prime Minister, General Smutz Who was at the Time about Oppression of the Indians and He Would Not Give Up with Showing Up and having conversations that came from a place of love and Bridging friendship with General Smutz and Eventually General Smutz Changed his Mind, and dropped his thinking and dropped into his heart. and when he was asked "How Gandhi Changed His Mind?" he said: "He Didn't Change My Mind, He Changed My Heart." and That's what I Think of as Sacred Activism, is Heart Work, it's love work... and in THAT We Sing The Peacemakers... AHHH... Tap on Our Hearts...


OHHH... Yeah, Yeah...
OHHH... Hey, Yeah... hey, Yeah...


Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Your Enemies....
Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Your Enemies....


Do Good, Good, Good, Good, Good To Those Who Hurt You...
Do Good, Good, Good, Good, Good To Those Who Hurt You...


Yeah? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah.


We Shall Be The Peacemakers.
We Shall Be The Peacemakers.


and We Shall Be Called,
The Children of Love...
The Children of Love... "

We Can't Afford to Drive on a Family Vacation this Summer Because of Trump's High Gas Prices. Remember the Good Old Days? 2 Years Ago... Before Total Failure Trump became President...

Did you know that the MAGA Moron who is the Secretary of Transportation took a seven-month vacation and filmed it as a TV show? Since you and I can't afford to drive... You can watch it on TV as a virtual reality... That's their plan... Instead of ending the Iran War and causing gas prices to go down... They offer more screen time... 

Boeing kicked in $1 million to help fund the five-part video series, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the agreements. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-reportedly-donated-to-transportation-secretarys-road-trip/

Source: 

Transportation Secretary Duffy filmed a reality show, funded by firms he regulates. 

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/nx-s1-5818190/sean-duffy-road-trip-reality-show-sponsors

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPNmTYUi9DY

I remember that as a child my family would drive to a national park and go camping & fishing... Every year! Well you can't do that now... Stay at home and watch TV!

The best fishing was at Manning Provincial Park in Canada... I caught a lot of fish and mom cooked them... One of the difference between actually doing things and watching them on TV is that: When when actually fishing, the fishes smell! After you catch the fish you have to kill it... You bend the head backwards until they spinal cord snaps... I'm not kidding! The water is really cold... The forest is filled with little chirping birds... And when you provide food for your family there's a satisfaction that is deeply biological... For millions of years humans have hunted and fished in order to survive and I was part of that chain... You don't get that on TV! 

Some other fabulous places that we drove to: Yosemite, Big Sur, Mount Lassen, the World's Fair in Seattle, Mount Shasta, Bidwell Park in Chico 

I actually drove to Seattle a couple of times... As a child we went to the World's Fair... And that was epic... It was all about the World of Tomorrow! And then later we would go there for Christmas with the family because my wife's cousins work for Boeing... Unless they didn't get the contract and then he worked for Lockheed... And then... Marijuana was legalized in the state of Washington and I was retired, had time on my hands, money in my wallet... And I went up there and ate two cannabis cookies, drank a really strong cup of coffee... And rode the Monorail to the Experience Music Pavilion... An Interactive part of the World's Fair dedicated to the history of Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain...  It had a place where you could play musical instruments with other tourists... Specifically... A long row of tuned bells that you could bang on... Very popular with the children... 

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and then last week I said...

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Since I Don't Own a Car, all those TV advertisements are meaningless to me... Car insurance, purchasing a new car or truck, ambulance chaser lawyers, gas prices... 

I see on TV news that many people are spending a lot of money on gasoline for their cars... Not me... 

I see on TV news that many people are upset about the quality of airline travel in the USA... Not me...

I always turn the sound off when I'm watching TV news because at any instant I can turn it on and hear what they're saying but the vast majority of the time it's just insane babbling... I can't think of any circumstances when I would voluntarily want to hear what Trump has to say... Or any of his evil minions... 

So anyway, I don't hear the sound of all those automobile insurance commercials... And some of them are especially crazy... The Li Mu Emu... And there's a soap opera drama of a half a dozen people dressed in white clothes selling Progressive Auto Insurance... Since I do take a LYFT ride about four times a year, I programmed the phone number for an ambulance Chaser lawyer into my phone... One of those lawyers specializes in lawsuits involving Uber or Lyft... And that advertisement got my attention...

But it's extremely important to not have the sound on during the commercials where they're advertising doctor drugs... Accidentally I have heard the people talking in the background about the side effects... Quite often the side effects of psych meds is suicide... Gee I sure don't want to take that drug... 

And evidently there's a huge market for people that want to show off more skin when they go swimming... Tiny bikinis... Even tinier bikinis... Because if they clear up the fungus infection on their skin then they can show it off... Now that's a product that I don't think I'll ever buy... 

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I've Lived a "Car Free" life for decades... I rode the bus to and from work in both San Jose and Eureka... Actually, it was a lot of fun... I'd sit in the back and talk to women... Also... It's illegal to drink and drive... But there's no law about drinking and riding the bus...

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another thing that's kind of funny is it now that I've already voted I'm starting to get a lot of junk mail advertising candidates... It's too late to change my mind now suckers... And there's a lot of TV advertisements... In the California governor's race there's a lot of ads promoting Tom's tires and then there's a lot of ads opposing Tom's tires... I voted for the guy who's the current mayor of San Jose... 

I must admit that my vote was swayed by the anti Tom's tires advertisements I saw last month... I figured that anyone that has a billion dollars has got a done Dirty deeds in order to get it... Investing in oil companies, for profit prisons... Income tax evasion using the Cayman Islands... 

And it bug me that for months there were at least 10 TV advertisements a day for Tom's tires when no one else was advertising at all... Proof that he had a tremendous amount of money and really wanted to buy the job of being governor of California... I can't vote for that guy... 

For your information "Tom's tires" is a joke... His real name is Tom Steyer... 

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When I'm watching TV I've noticed a very popular hairstyle on the women... Long blonde hair and short dark roots... They're attempting to pretend that their ancestors grew up in northern Europe but actual biology reveals that they are mud people... Their ancestors grew up a little bit closer to the Equator than they really want to admit... So they go with that Nazi look!

A little fact from world history... The Nazis were really into forced breeding of white people... They chose a lot of men soldiers that had blonde hair and then "allowed" them to impregnate women from Scandinavia... In order to breed a master race... Now that sounds like a crazy thing to do until you realize that a singer from ABBA is one of those children... Surprisingly, it's not the singer with the blonde hair... It's the other one! So no matter what kind of crazy history you got in your parents generation... Sometimes the children turn out to be excellent!

That makes me question the entire concept of genetic engineering... Maybe we should design better humans... It seems like a perfect task for artificial intelligence... You got DNA with four different bases making trillions of combinations... What if we had a machine learn how to create better people?

That's the plot of the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley... And everybody focuses on the first half of that book... But the last half is all about him going to the American southwest and participating in peyote ceremonies... Huh!

I must say that peyote really helped a friend of mine who is a Vietnam veteran... And he was upset over the fact that men under his command died... PTSD for years... Maybe decades... But then he went to a sweat lodge and ate peyote... He had the realization that it was not his fault that the men died... It was Lyndon Johnson's fault... It was Richard Nixon's fault... And in fact, it was John F Kennedy's fault as well... The men died because they were sent Halfway Around the World to kill people for no reason... Not his choice... 

And he found inner peace... Of course... It really helped that he was an American Indian and he went to an inter-tribal event where he was accepted as a brother...

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AIDS Walk 2026 New York City Today. Why? Hasn't AIDS been cured? There are many "HIV undetectable" drugs for sale... 

My TV gets local news from New York City... And I find it kind of worthy because they do a lot of interesting things there... I always had a lot of fun when I went to visit as a tourist... 

Why are they having an AIDS Walk Today? Anyone can go get a prescription for HIV undetectable medicine ( I suppose) and so AIDS would be a voluntary disease... Of course, it's always been a voluntary disease... The vast majority of the cases are with gay men and all you have to do is never participate in gay men sex... DUH... How the disease is spread has been known for over 50 years...

It is not widespread amongst gay women... 

I remember one of the smart things that Dianne Feinstein did when she was mayor of San Francisco was to close down the bath houses that were frequented by gay men... Because it was a public health hazard... Men would go there and spread AIDS to each other and then die... And as the mayor of the city she felt it was her responsibility to keep the citizens alive... Even if they behaved stupidly... 

the AIDS quilt... Each square is a dead person... 

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Trump Said: "Since I Made Gas for your Car is So Very Expensive, Ride in a Flying Saucer Instead! They Don't Use Gas At All! Every Direction They Go is "Downhill" and They Just Coast... Gravity is Free Energy!"

 

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and the drawing of the friendly alien.

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Ancient UFO Drawings, Paintings - before the invention of cameras, This Is How They documented flying saucers and extraterrestrials...

UFOs in Ancient Art. Fresco detail Crucifixion of Jesus. Decani Monastery Serbia. 

 

UFO shining a beam in a Renaissance painting

A giant golden UFO in the medieval painting

An April 1561 broadsheet by Hans Glaser described a mass sighting of celestial phenomena or unidentified flying objects (UFO) above Nuremberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg

Ezekiel - wheel within wheel - Bible

 

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COSMOS MYSTERY, COLOURED,
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"It's Not Us vs Them. It is More Like: We Are All Consciousness, Part of a Much Bigger Story... Animals, Humans and Extraterrestrials." Quote: Caroline Cory - Ancient Aliens TV show. - Linda Moulton Howe

and It Just Happens that Humans are One Type of Consciousness and Other Beings Are Another Type of Consciousness Collaborating Together in One Time Space Dimension or Another but All For The Same Purpose... Which Is The Evolution of Species and The Evolution of the Universe. 

Linda Moulton Howe (L) and Caroline Cory
Extraterrestrial Experts

Do You Find It Exciting to Think That You Might Be or All of Us Might Be Part of Such a Grand Design? Doesn't It Expand the Vision of the Possibilities of Your Existence and Life Itself?

There You Have It. You Have The Potential To Awaken to the Bigger Picture and Accept Your Galactic and Universal Citizenship if You So Choose.  - Caroline Cory
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ET Contact: They Are Here

documents the jaw-dropping stories of individuals from around the world who share similar accounts of extraterrestrial and otherworldly encounters. Producer and host Caroline Cory, who has her own extensive history with the supernatural, takes the viewers on an extraordinary journey to uncover whether these seemingly independent yet parallel reports may actually be scientific evidence of a greater phenomenon at work. Through a series of groundbreaking on-camera experiments on human DNA, and interviews with leading scientists, viewers will find themselves pondering the nature of their own reality or yet the true origin of the human species. ET CONTACT may ultimately show that the traditionally unexplained is, in fact, far more attributable to science than fiction.

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DEFUND THE SPACE FARCE - "It's Unlikely that Earth Will be Invaded by Aliens in Flying Saucers. Total Waste of Money!"

Remember: Extraterrestrials Have Been Visiting for Thousands of Years without any Harm to Humans. ---AND--- They Have Vastly Superior Technology and Would Win any War. Let's NOT Make 'em Angry!

CONTACT Your Senators: 

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

CONTACT Your Representative in the House:

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

CONTACT Space Aliens!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/08/ce5-protocol-extraterrestrials-come-on.html

The Entire Reason Trump Started the Space Force is that He Thought He Was Under Attack by Space Aliens! That's a Symptom of Schizophrenia. 

We Waste about 10 Billion Dollars a Year on Trump's Paranoid Fantasies... 

Defund the space force... It's unlikely that we're going to be invaded by aliens and flying saucers... Trump's idea is crazy.

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The GOP House Wants to Cut US Government Spending... Here's a Way to Save a Fortune!

Yes, UFOs are Real BUT they Have Shown No Danger to Earth. They Just Fly Around Doing Whatever They Do... and Ignoring Humans... 

There WAS One Instance When Aliens Prevented the US Military from Being Able to Launch Atom Bombs on Missiles... THANKS! The Last Thing We Want to Do is Nuclear War... That's CRAZY!

The Malmstrom AFB UFO/Missile Incident... 

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm

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UFOs Are Real - The US Navy Film is Absolute Proof... and The Phoenix Lights Were Seen by Thousands... Including the Governor. --- and--- The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident...

and the Recent "Disclosure" by The US Military is Being Used to Justify Spending on the Space Force... We don't know what these UFOs are But they Might be Dangerous... Better Fund the Military to Fight Aliens!

Real UFO Film by the US Navy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPn-YMp9vI


We All Ought To Live More Like Star Trek. Many Different Races Working Together to Accomplish Great Things. A Year Ago, The President of the United States Was selling Hate... That ERA is OVER... Now, We all ought to Honor our Trekkie Roots...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/we-all-ought-to-live-more-like-star.html


Crop Circles - Many are Clearly NOT Made By People - Look At These Photos and a Video of an Entire Design being Created in 15 Seconds... Here is the Trailer for the Movie "Crop Circle Reality."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnd-S2WAgMQ

It Shows UFOs Flying over a Field and a Crop Circle Appearing LIVE. Look at the Video at Time=1:05


Great TV Show: Ancient Aliens... Based on the Book "Chariots of the Gods?" by Erich von Daniken... This Show Makes Me Think That They Might Be Right... That We Have Been Visited by ExtraTerrestrials in the Distant Past... and RECENTLY TOO!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/great-tv-show-ancient-aliens-really.html
Hudson River Valley. A UFO Hotspot for Centuries. Remember The Headless Horseman or Rip Van Winkle? Alien Contact... The Book Communion? Meeting a Grey... Thousands of UFO Sightings in the 1980s...

Communion: A True Story: The book is based on the experiences of Whitley Strieber, who experiences "lost time" and terrifying flashbacks, which hypnosis links to an alleged encounter with aliens.

"Lost Time" is the Fundamental Plot of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving.


The Headless Horseman Could be a Description of an Alien... A Being that Didn't Look Like a Norman Human.

The Great American Ghost Story: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow... By The Historic Hudson Valley Society:
https://hudsonvalley.org/article/the-great-american-ghost-story/

 

I don't think any US journalist has written as tough (and spot-on) a portrayal of the threat facing us as this Canadian, Andrew Coyne of the Toronto Globe and Mail:
“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.
The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.
There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.
The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.
At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.
At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.
The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.
Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.
Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.
We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?”
Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.
All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”