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rOn Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:39:11 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:56:54 +0000, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>
>> 	Like Ghandi I believe that Western Civilization would
>> be a good idea but I fail to see where it has arrived.
>
>Not long after Gandhi's quip, though, came the partition of India in
>1947.
>
>Say what you will about the industrialized nations of the West, but they
>have
>outbreaks of what India calls "communal violence" rather less often than
>India. And today India is governed by the BJP and its leader Narendra
>Modi,
>who openly favors Hindu supremacy.
>
>However, since the U.S. has elected Trump, and Canada appears to be on
>the
>verge of electing Pierre Polievre (who tries to come across as a normal
>Conservative politician, but by supporting the "Freedom Convoy" he
>revealed
>himself to represent the same madness as Trump) perhaps I should not be
>quite
>so sanguine about the West.

Adding each Province as a State and expanding Canadian political
parties southwards might be helpful. Or not. Not that I would
recommend it.

But making all of Canada a /single/ State is ludicrous.

>(The Freedom Convoy was a protest that blocked off a significant area of
>Ottawa,
>interfering with the ability of several businesses to operate, demanding
>the
>resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which was a protest
>against
>the basic public health measures Canada took in response to the COVID-19
>pandemic.)
>
>Apparently the world is going mad, and will soon fall into a global
>tyranny, in
>which the world's three nuclear superpowers, Russia, mainland China, and
>the
>U.S. will all get along just fine, dividing the world between them as
>three
>like-minded dictatorships. I dread this prospect. Not that I feel it is
>certain - but even a detectable probability of such a calamity is
>intolerable
>to me, so I'm not satisfied with the hope that the entire GOP will stop
>short
>of supporting Trump when it comes to the point of him leading America
>into the
>abyss.

Nice summary of /1984/. I'm sure everyone here had no trouble
recognizing it.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"