{"id":3521,"date":"2011-05-02T23:35:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:55:30","slug":"monday-may-2-2011%e2%80%94-folly-and-treason-reign-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Monday, May 2, 2011\u2014 Folly Reigns in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The results of the Cana\u00addi\u00adan fed\u00ader\u00adal elec\u00adtion are so depress\u00ading that I can\u2019t bring myself to com\u00adment at length.&nbsp;Cana\u00addi\u00adans have reward\u00aded one of their worst and most moral\u00adly offen\u00adsive gov\u00adern\u00adments with a par\u00adlia\u00admen\u00adtary major\u00adi\u00adty.&nbsp;We have already, thanks to Stephen Harper\u2019s Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion, plunged from finan\u00adcial sol\u00adven\u00adcy to crip\u00adpling debt.&nbsp;Harp\u00ader has shown his con\u00adtempt for Cana\u00addi\u00adan tra\u00addi\u00adtion and democ\u00adra\u00adcy a hun\u00addred times over, and com\u00admit\u00adted gen\u00aduine acts of trea\u00adson.&nbsp;We will now live in the thrall of doc\u00adtri\u00adnaire Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive filth and cor\u00adrup\u00adtion, ruled (rather than served) by one of the slim\u00adi\u00adest bas\u00adtards in the country\u2019s history.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the aging Boomer gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion sinks into senil\u00adi\u00adty, this sort of dis\u00adas\u00adter was bound to hap\u00adpen, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After many years of study\u00ading his\u00adto\u00adry and soci\u00adety, I have pret\u00adty much zero tol\u00ader\u00adance for Marx\u00adists, Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives, pseu\u00addo-Mus\u00adlim and pseu\u00addo-Chris\u00adt\u00adian \u201cfun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adists\u201d, and the pro\u00admot\u00aders of Glob\u00adal Cor\u00adpo\u00adratism \u2014 all these clowns are pret\u00adty much the same sort of con-artists, ped\u00addling the same sort of garbage.&nbsp;They are inter\u00adchange\u00adable.&nbsp;Now a gang of them has tri\u00adumphed in the coun\u00adtry that I&nbsp;love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My coun\u00adtry has sunk into a dark age.&nbsp;I\u2019ll try to hold on to the candle.<\/span><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the Cana\u00addi\u00adan fed\u00ader\u00adal elec\u00adtion are so depress\u00ading that I can\u2019t bring myself to com\u00adment at length.&nbsp;Cana\u00addi\u00adans have reward\u00aded one of their worst and most moral\u00adly offen\u00adsive gov\u00adern\u00adments with a par\u00adlia\u00admen\u00adtary major\u00adi\u00adty.&nbsp;We have already, thanks to Stephen Harper\u2019s \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3521\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,927],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ap-blog-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12109,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}