A long time ago, I did a weekly-or-so podcast on current events, it was small and had a small audience, which was fine. I had a good time doing it, and who knows, maybe I'll kick it up again someday.
One of my more interesting audience members was someone I'd describe as a Canadian hyper-nationalist who still jived with conservative ideas and found them interesting. But any time the conversation went toward Canada - the government could Do No Wrong and it was in fact, justified, in any move toward Canadian self interest, etc., saw nothing wrong with government owned media monopoly, and so on. We debated here and there but he never really understood the idea that a government could not be trusted to be impartial or unbiased. This was around 2008-2011 or so.
When I see what Trudeau is doing today, I often wonder what this guy would say now. He's more or less gotten what he used to passionately support, and the natural thing has happened - human nature kicks in, the government overreaches, especially once a blatantly self serving person is in power who doesn't mind pulling the levers of power in ways that helps him and hurts his enemies.
So, funny story.
A long time ago, I did a weekly-or-so podcast on current events, it was small and had a small audience, which was fine. I had a good time doing it, and who knows, maybe I'll kick it up again someday.
One of my more interesting audience members was someone I'd describe as a Canadian hyper-nationalist who still jived with conservative ideas and found them interesting. But any time the conversation went toward Canada - the government could Do No Wrong and it was in fact, justified, in any move toward Canadian self interest, etc., saw nothing wrong with government owned media monopoly, and so on. We debated here and there but he never really understood the idea that a government could not be trusted to be impartial or unbiased. This was around 2008-2011 or so.
When I see what Trudeau is doing today, I often wonder what this guy would say now. He's more or less gotten what he used to passionately support, and the natural thing has happened - human nature kicks in, the government overreaches, especially once a blatantly self serving person is in power who doesn't mind pulling the levers of power in ways that helps him and hurts his enemies.