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Susan's avatar

Kaplan-Myrth was practically hysterical every time she spoke. It was very hard to disentangle her message from her delivery. What I managed to take away from her rants was that anyone who questioned the efficacy of boosters, or considered the costs of lockdown too high, is a far right nutjob. Yikes! I found it very telling that she did not want to come onto the programme to debate the topic if there was someone from the "other" side. How can one debate if only one side is represented??

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"But those who shout obscenities at Liberal politicians in public, or write vile emails to left-leaning journalists, are not without responsibility either."

While I agree with this, there is a chasm of difference that needs be addressed.

The left is screaming at everyone, and now threatening everyone... from their top positions of power and influence... that rejects absolutism of their leftist ideas and demands.... even as those ideas and demands are clearly flawed, destructive and absurd.

The right is, reluctantly and late to the game, screaming at the left for their demanded absolutism and evidence of abuses of power to force everyone else to accept the left dog food.

The right is willing to compromise. The left is not. The left is working from a position that without political dominance they lose their life meaning... it is like their clutch on power is their struggle for life. The right can see this and is starting to see that there is no easy solution except to turn up the heat in response.

The right is conservative. Conservatives in general are more calm, cool and collected. It is this tendency that seems to have contributed to the problems we have today. The left radicals used to be cute and tolerated. You can see the old Republican establishment still attempting to model this tolerance. It was okay that some people came with these absurd radical ideas... because we would debate them and maybe the needle DID need to move a bit. However, the GOP and moderates failed to recognize the radicals had taken control of the education system and started spreading a toxic mind virus to ALL the students... even at K-12. Trump and his supporters noted it along with the globalist corporatist destruction of American working prosperity... which for some inexplicable reason the radicals seem to also support even as they rage about the big corporations stealing all the resources and cash.

I think the correction happens if and when the left, especially the youth, wake up to the fact that their corporate-political establishment masters have fed them a raft of crap and they recognize the common goals they share with the American working class to stop the oligarchs and their political benefactors from continuing to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else.

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