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Hey Mike,
I know you’ve got shit to deal with, and I bet you don’t wistfully scan the horizon with an anxious desire for some anemic Yankee pissant to come over and jerk your chain. If I gain your thoughtful indulgence for my importunity, I shall consider myself thrice blessed. I don’t know whether the question is easy or hard.
What I crave to understand, from the perspective of one who hears in his heart the faint echo of the Lost Cause, is the American political realignment of the 1960’s, Civil Rights, and the Republican (Nixon) pivot to the Southern Strategy.
I don’t know why Southerners switched allegiance from the Democrat to the Republican party with Nixon. Not from the point of view of any Southerners anyway. For some reason it’s not on Wikipedia.
If I’m a distraction, I only hope to distract from your troubles. Thanks!
Not at all, T, not at all. Always glad to hear from you folks who take the time and trouble to comment. As for that Southern Strategy business, I’ve read quite a few entirely credible debunkings of that whole notion over the years. Can’t really say how that ties in with the Southerners/Party of Lincoln connection, honestly. I’ll have to give that some more thought, I do believe.
Okay, let me get my thoughts together and I’ll put up a Substack or something. You may be able to chew some sense into it.
Sense is exactly what it’s lacking. There’s all this reason, but no sense.
It’s June! You know what that means: Pride month!
The Canadian government is modelling euthanasia of the homeless, drug users, retired elderly, and indigenous communities to save trillions.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00302228251323299
The first para reads:
“This study explores the potential economic savings from expanding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada, where it is currently a leading cause of death, to include vulnerable groups that cost the government more than they contribute in taxes.”
I’m guessing that career criminals, non-Whites on welfare, and “migrants” will not be considered for aggressive MAID advertising, though they “cost the government more than they contribute in taxes”.
That’s one of the first things I thought when I came across this.
Just as there is two-tier justice in Canada there is two-tier MAID.
I saw some statistics on the positive recommendations for MAID in the past 18 months (?) broken down by race and sex. And a comparison to Canada’s population by race and sex. There were, to say the least, some eye-catching patterns.
The MAID recommendations were not broken down by province, at least not in the article I saw. Too bad. It would be interesting to see whether Ontario, say, made 10x the recommendations per 1000 residents than Manitoba.