Category: Politics
This subject includes items related to politics.
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Insurgence
The trouble with events like that which happened last Wednesday, January 6 — the demonstrations and subsequent entry of the demonstrators into the Capitol — is they tend to drive out extreme positions and calls for action based on emotion. It’s hard not to get caught up in the moment and see responses, that the…
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Censorship, Good Taste or Practicality
It is a question sometimes faced by artworks: is this a work of art or simply in bad taste, or pornographic, and without value? By cutting Trump for commercial reasons (ironically to make room for commercials), the CBC has drawn international attention. The removed 8 minutes included a 7-second scene that portrays Trump as a…
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Guardrails
in: PoliticsA skeptical view of politicians, often rooted in a perception of them serving their self interests, is not new. Over the millennia, controls have evolved to define a path that we, as a society, have agreed is acceptable. These controls are often situated in legislation or constitutions. But as empirical tools, that have advanced to…
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Fahrenheit 11/9
My subscription to Amazon Prime gives me access to Prime Videos. Since the last time I looked, they seem to have grown their library. Yesterday I watched Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore’s look at why Trump was elected. His answer: political leadership has privileged the needs of business over the needs of the people. Trump said…