“Fascism creeps; and one of its hallmarks is that by the time you realize you’re in it, it’s too late to do anything about it.” We see where things are going, but it’s like watching a train wreck — “that slow-motion horror in your head, the disbelief, the sense that nobody can hear you screaming, and the sickening knowledge that there’s nothing you can do to stop what you know is coming.” (Sara Robinson )
There’s a considerable degree of credibility in this scenario since, given the utter failure of our representative political system, the now absolute division power and politics in that system, we have become completely powerless to change things in time. Our government clearly serves corporate Canada, in particular the financial sector and big oil, not the people of Canada. (This abject condition is merely a watered down, subtler version of the U.S. government’s relation to . . . → Read More: Politics and Entertainment: Are Canadians resigned to the current repressive methods of the Harper Regime?