Bill Maher: What we can learn from Canada, and Sweden, and others
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When Maher is the voice of reason, we are definitely not in Kansas anymore.
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@Jolly said in Bill Maher: What we can learn from Canada, and Sweden, and others:
When Maher is the voice of reason, we are definitely not in Kansas anymore.
But, here's the question, has he moved to the right, or has the left totally abandoned him.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Canada in the past eight years has gotten progressively worse and subsequently more divided against itself.
I agree with Maher on some of his points but not all.
When he talks about air pollution he refers to and his map points to regions and cities hit particularly hard by wildfires the past couple of years. It is expected to be worse this year - here we are already fighting a few in the north. But wildfires and the poor air quality from them have nothing to do with political or social progressivist policies. I would hope Maher understands that.
Likewise with health care. Yes it is in crisis and needs fixing. But that fixing is primarily at the provincial level of governance and does not include departing from the Canada Health Act and moving away from the single payer universal system to deliver primary care for all. The subsidiary governance aspect of health care delivery in this country is not something I would begin to think Maher could get his head around. Like many, if not most Americans, when he talks about health care delivery in Canada or elsewhere, he is actually talking about the health delivery in the USA. I get that and get also that he is a comedian and entertainer whose audience is almost exclusively American.
I enjoy Mahar’s entertaining diatribes against wokeness and the hypocrisy it is and champions.
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Don’t buy the Gomorrah myth, but certainly the Western world is heading in the direction of some sort of paradigmatic shift.
On one hand, half the population cannot cope with the past and as a result is hell bent on mindlessly radicalising the future. On the other hand, half cannot cope with the thought what the future will bring and is therefore hell bent on preserving and continuing what is in reality, an idealised past that never really was.
Either way spells ongoing unpleasantness for everyone - at least in the near term.
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@Jolly said in Bill Maher: What we can learn from Canada, and Sweden, and others:
When Maher is the voice of reason, we are definitely not in Kansas anymore.
But, here's the question, has he moved to the right, or has the left totally abandoned him.
@George-K said in Bill Maher: What we can learn from Canada, and Sweden, and others:
But, here's the question, has he moved to the right, or has the left totally abandoned him.
Like @Mik and the Republiccan party, not a surprise to see the other side do the same thing.
