The Cognoscenti Syndrome
There is a group of people I think of as the Cognoscenti, people who are well educated, very informed and of rapidly diminishing relevance. Their ranks include writers such as Chris Hedges and Glen Greenwald. These are people who have honed an almost Puritanical value system, readily finding fault in any direction. They are scathing in their attacks on Republicans and Democrats alike to the point where they become nihilists. They don't endorse. They prescribe. This is where they fail. They're unable to advocate for anything that might resonate with the public whose interests they argue are being trammeled. Donald Trump was bad but Joe Biden is scarcely better. This is where their elitism comes in. 74 million may have voted for Trump but, hey, they didn't know any better. The mob that stormed the Capitol. They were just victims of the system venting their frustrations. All the racism, bigotry, xenophobia, misogyny, white nationalism - inevitable side effects of their oppr...

That is a bs list. I hate to say it as I love my country, but Canada should not be on that list, but for example India and Iran should be (yes I said Iran, they have no history of invading other countries, we on the other hand, thanks to American pressure, do have a history of regime change wars in places like Afganistan and former Yugoslavia.
ReplyDelete.. I often wonder what 'our' National Interest is re Venezuela..
ReplyDeleteBasically it would seem Mr Trudeau, Ms Freeland et al wish to meddle Canada in Venezuela politics, whereupon the net result of their 'position' would simply finish off the Alberta Tar Sands. If their 'position' matches that of the USA as I understand it, then Venezuelan Bitumen would slam the American Gulf Coast refineries with less expensive, higher grade Bitumen via state of the art deep water mega supertankers. Those tankers can load and unload simultaneously - full load, faster etc via a straight shot across the Carribean. Further, they can sail cross Atlantic to the mystery clients Jason Kenney raves about. What then Alberta ? 'All that wealth in the ground' ?
Indeed, if there is any viability left in the Alberta tar sands, it disappears quickly if Venezuelan heavy oil is available.
DeleteBut Canada would never compromise its principles over oil money, eh?
The Anglophile alliance is guilty of more misdeeds than the 'mad' Mullahs who generally stick to their own neighbourhood .
ReplyDelete@ Salamander ; Canada's meddling in Venezuela is indeed puzzling ; perhaps a sign of virtue signalling to the USA after all we had no issues bombing Libya that other oil rich nation on behalf of the USA!
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