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An open thread for reader tips and comments. Hope springs eternal.
VDH:
There are lots of possible counterfactuals to think about had Hillary Clinton won the presidency as all the experts had predicted.
The U.S. embassy would have stayed in Tel Aviv. “Strategic patience” would likely still govern the North Korea dilemma. Fracking would be curtailed. The — rather than “our” — miners really would be put out of work. Coal certainly would not have been “beautiful.” The economy probably would be slogging along at below 2 percent GDP growth.
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Invariably, this is the slippery slope you slide down when you put ideologues in charge. Just ask Venezuelans. Sooner or later, reality always comes back to bite you in the ass.
Are Canadians out of touch with reality? These are strong words. But dire situations call for tough talk.
In Monday’s Post John Ivison quoted, without naming, the CEO of “a large Canadian company” warning that foreign investment was plunging because “There is a real, genuine, honest, non-partisan concern that Canada is so completely out of touch with the real world.” And here let me insert two caveats that aren’t remotely reassuring.
First, not all Canadians are equally out of touch. Some have a pretty good idea what’s going on, while others hold senior government posts. Second “the real world” is problematic shorthand because policy debates generally turn on how we interpret the evidence, that is, how we see reality.
The reason for little Alfie Evans’ death. It is, in a word, tyranny.
Given the facts of the case, it is hard to see what purpose was served by Evans’ death other than to demonstrate, before a gaping world, the unquestioned power of the United Kingdom over its subjects.
In that way, the boy’s death illustrates, in horrifying detail, the cold logic of the mature welfare state. The purpose of the welfare state is to exercise power over its subjects—and make no mistake, they are subjects, not citizens—and that’s it. Nothing more and nothing less.
Heh heh.
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