If we are going to understand where we are, we need to understand Americanism, and how it relates to us. I think people are focused a bit too much on Donald Trump, and not enough on actual Americanism, and how this can impact where we stand in the big picture.
The mindset of the US citizenry, and what they are willing to support, is very different from the mindset of people in Commonwealth countries. It had to be. That's how the American Revolution occurred. Its baked into people's mindsets. I personally get to see how people think about stuff in Utah for example (having family there). Government to them is last resort for solving problems. Its hard to get your head around this without seeing it, but its true. Thats what they actually believe.
This may sound like a foolish example, but it illustrates mindset differentiation. Riding quads and side by sides is street legal where the family lives in Utah (metro Salt Lake City area). Its actual law that its OK, so long as your following the rules of the road.
The Americans did not join WW1 until 1917, and didn't join WW2 until the end of '41. Roosevelt wanted to join the effort earlier, but the population wasn't for it. The population has a large streak of iscolationism baked into their mindset. Basically the argument in both World Wars was "The Europeans have been killing one another for centuries. Not our problem." They only broke into WW2 when Yamamoto decided to bomb Pearl Harbour. The population mindset all shifted in an instant.
We are living next door to Rome. Call a spade a spade. Now we can bitch and complain about it, or we can figure out where we fit in and how we can best leverage our position to our benefit. The Keystone Pipeline would have been a great place to start. We have resources and they have a huge population that wanted to buy it. We cant keep being stupid and shooting ourselves in the foot when opportunity presents itself.
Repeating paranoic slogans over and over doesn't prove anything except that you have no reason to believe whatever nonsense you believe.
Take cars as a good example. Trump and Howard Lutnick have already declared their goal of destroying the Canadian car industry so the problem isn;t China, it's your friends in the US.
If we are going to understand where we are, we need to understand Americanism, and how it relates to us. I think people are focused a bit too much on Donald Trump, and not enough on actual Americanism, and how this can impact where we stand in the big picture.
The mindset of the US citizenry, and what they are willing to support, is very different from the mindset of people in Commonwealth countries. It had to be. That's how the American Revolution occurred. Its baked into people's mindsets. I personally get to see how people think about stuff in Utah for example (having family there). Government to them is last resort for solving problems. Its hard to get your head around this without seeing it, but its true. Thats what they actually believe.
This may sound like a foolish example, but it illustrates mindset differentiation. Riding quads and side by sides is street legal where the family lives in Utah (metro Salt Lake City area). Its actual law that its OK, so long as your following the rules of the road.
The Americans did not join WW1 until 1917, and didn't join WW2 until the end of '41. Roosevelt wanted to join the effort earlier, but the population wasn't for it. The population has a large streak of iscolationism baked into their mindset. Basically the argument in both World Wars was "The Europeans have been killing one another for centuries. Not our problem." They only broke into WW2 when Yamamoto decided to bomb Pearl Harbour. The population mindset all shifted in an instant.
We are living next door to Rome. Call a spade a spade. Now we can bitch and complain about it, or we can figure out where we fit in and how we can best leverage our position to our benefit. The Keystone Pipeline would have been a great place to start. We have resources and they have a huge population that wanted to buy it. We cant keep being stupid and shooting ourselves in the foot when opportunity presents itself.
Simply put, Les, that's an enormous pile of sheer crap.
From the standpoint of someone who isn't delusional.
The only thing loonier I have seen in the past 20 minutes is Trump's egocentric ravings at Davos.
Repeating paranoic slogans over and over doesn't prove anything except that you have no reason to believe whatever nonsense you believe.
Take cars as a good example. Trump and Howard Lutnick have already declared their goal of destroying the Canadian car industry so the problem isn;t China, it's your friends in the US.