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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:24:47 -0700
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 01:39:22 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Wed, 28 May 2025 16:50:56 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>Nicoll) wrote:
>
>>That's not even getting into how Quebec would react as French gets
>>bumped down from second language to third, after Spanish.=20
>
>Which practically speaking is why the proposition is so absurd.
>
>BC and AB combined have a considerably larger population than Quebec
>yet considerably fewer seats in Parliament AND the constitutional
>amending formula prevents any constitutional amendments that Quebec or
>the Maritime provinces object to no matter how lopsided the population
>gets. Can't remember whether it was the premier of NS or NB who said
>something to the effect of "the present amending formula works quite
>well for us - why would we consent to change it?'
>
>Thus BC and AB are under represented in BOTH houses of Parliament and
>the amending formula prevents any changes - forever. Is it any wonder
>why people in BC and AB feel like second class citizens in their own
>country?
>
>Now all Canadian provinces (except PEI) have a larger population than
>the smallest US state but only ON, QC, BC, AB have more than 4 million
>people which by US state standards is small.
>
>Bottom line is if Donald Trump made his "51st state joke" once and
>never repeated it Canadians would have forgotten it by now - but he
>didn't and in so doing drove US-Canada relations to the lowest point
>in 50+ years.
>
>The hell of it is that in 2024, Trump really WAS a better candidate
>than Harris (much less Biden given his mental state in 2024) which
>says more about Harris than Trump.
>
>It's not the first time a political leader has been less than
>completely 'compos mentis' - and Winston Churchill (even though in his
>prime was a much better Prime Minister than Biden ever was as
>President) at the end of his last term of office was in much worse
>shape than Biden.

World Wars do take their toll, even on men at the top of the pyramid.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"