I claim that for a lot of people, religion is the difference between dealing with their frustrations peaceably and dealing with their frustrations expediently.
I suppose you see it that way. As I see it, I made one unflattering remark about the example (and suggested there were better ways to make arguments against the administration's policy) and you were triggered by that one thing into launching yourself into a bunch of "climate risk" strawmen.
Not horseshoe theory. Tit for tat. The people using the left's tactics first warned the left that those tactics could be used by anyone, then talked about using them because the usual gentry Republican turn-the-cheek behaviour wasn't working, and finally are using them. That interval in which they noted the problem and expressed their frustration was when American progressives could have had whatever kind of civil war they needed to have to fix the problem, but didn't.
An easy guess is that it's "code" for "stop letting Muslim immigrants take over local government and replace western civilization with theirs". No particular European culture need be identified.
I've stayed away from hi-tech stuff - it's just another thing to break that costs a lot to fix and - more likely then not - makes it impossible not to fix it.
You see, that's where my theory of having a Constitution that guarantees "freedom from religion" is much more useful then one that guarantees "freedom of religion."
A given set of conservative principles can be maintained only if no-one changes anything. As soon as someone changes something, "turning the clock back" is the only alternative. If there is nothing that can be improved (restored) by undoing changes, what is the point of conservative politics?
I don't want to sound dismissive, but Newfoundlanders never really entered into our consciousness in Toronto (Scarborough actually - it makes a difference). There was no world north of the 401 nor east of Markham Rd.
Read: white, Anglo, Christian.
No critical mass. There has never been an equivalent to Little Poland, Little Italy, Greektown, Chinatown, etc.
I don't want to sound dismissive, but Newfoundlanders never really entered into our consciousness in Toronto (Scarborough actually - it makes a difference). There was no world north of the 401 nor east of Markham Rd.
The thing is the intelligentsia of the modern conservatives in the US and increasingly across the West arent really conservative - theyre regressive. Theyre trying their damnedest to tear down systems to build them back up in some twisted view of the glory days of ole, its a purely revisionist and revolutionary worldvoew wrapped in flag and bearing a cross. A conservative accepts change is necessary and tries to guide it sensibly and in a modest fashion, viewong change through the lens of convention and tradition. As a cohesive political ideology it arose in the UK in response to the worst excesses of the French Revolution.You see, that's where my theory of having a Constitution that guarantees "freedom from religion" is much more useful then one that guarantees "freedom of religion."
The last one is only useful until there's a block of folks that is even more attached to their religion then you are to yours. Then they become a threat.
You know that "woke" institutions don't exist because the majority of the people are in favour of "woke." "Woke" institutions are the product of small activist groups that really care about their theory of society and who make the effort to finagle their way into local, then regional and then federal governments and institutions. Most of us are far too lazy to get involved. We're happy to let other folks do it and barely show up for elections. We let them make our society "woke."
We've had this immigrant thing before. Talk to the Irish and Russians and Jews who came back around the 1890s and thereafter about how easily they could integrate. Look into the KKK resurgence in the US in the late 1900s to 1930s. Hell, I grew up in Toronto when Poles, and Italians were the standing butt of all jokes.
I've always believed in "progressive conservatism" as the proper balance between respecting what needs to stay and what ought to move forward. I've had a troubled relationship with just plain old "conservatism" or , what's worse, a call to turn the clock back being what's needed to make things great - again.
I don't want to sound dismissive, but Newfoundlanders never really entered into our consciousness in Toronto (Scarborough actually - it makes a difference). There was no world north of the 401 nor east of Markham Rd.
The best summary of American conservativism I've read is "The Conservative Sensibility" by George Will. Understanding it requires understanding there isn't just one kind of conservative.
Howdie. Yup I'm an older one. We lived in Birch Cliff Heights, just two blocks up from Birchmount Park CI. In fact I took my Grade 9 at RH King and then transferred from ST&T to A&S so that I could go to BPCI which had just opened that year.
Ukrainians in Western Canada. I never heard a Newfie joke til I was 17 or 18.
