Insightful letter Maria, one would think this is an obvious truth, but North America in particular fights this trend back to the centre with all the resources the one percent can throw at it.
Is anyone going to try to make the argument that it was social programs or social safety nets that has brought the world to the edge of financial ruin.
I have puzzled about this phenomena for years for example America is actually in worse financial shape than Greece, Greece per-capita debt $47,664 America $49,000 and what does America do but go yet further to the right, even to the extent of a man who is essentially a junk bond profiteer running for President. When things get bad the answer for Americans always seems to be , move further to the right and then wonder why things do not get better, then of course just move further to the right yet again. If we give just a little more to the one-percent everything will be all-right, just a little more will do it, NOT.
Federally Canada has a government that continues to rule with all the worse polices of George W. Bush.
In Canada provincially we have the same phenomena where in Alberta we just watched a pitched battle between the right and the ultra-right, Redford head of the wild rose party commented that Albertans have been evolving over the last decade, and she is right they are apparently evolving into Ferengi.
It occurs to me that when the west won the cold war over the east, America was at the height of it’s power and also in the centre of the political spectrum compared to where it is now.
It is worth noting that if you go far enough right you eventually end up left, and pass through Fascism along the way to your unintended goal.
Canada's sharp turn to the right away from our traditional values such as democratic peace keepers, thoughtful stewards of the environment, and a respected world leader and the fact that Canada is becoming an obvious right wing dictatorship, is to me and many other Canadians the wrong direction for the Canadian people our civil rights and liberties, democracy, the environment of Canada and the world as a whole and all it’s inhabitants.
Time for Canadians to stand up and be counted, while we still have a country left.
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