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Canadians undergoing the after effects of recent Caribbean hurricanes certainly deserve our sympathy. But why do they think that their government has to rescue them from their personal misfortunes? Oh, I forgot. Entitlement operating within the parameters of the Nanny State mentality.

If America is so racially unjust, how is it that some 70% of players in the National Football League and 74% of players in the National Basketball Association are black, and for the most part multi-millionaires? Perhaps their kneel-downs should be in thanks for the opportunity they have had to flourish within, however imperfect as are they themselves, a democratic environment that offers the opportunity for achievement through personal effort and not the myth of government handout. If America is so racially oppressive, why do these players stay? Could it be, dare I inquire……..the money? Just asking.

Did Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team, the world’s wealthiest sports franchise, participate with his players in a recent pre-game “kneel-down” in a unified protest of alleged racial injustice, or rather to preserve the value of his investment?  

If the apparent rise of far right politics now current in the western world is of concern, as it should be, then it should be understood that it is happening as the result of the proliferation and failure of far left politics over too long a period. While a return to the middle is urgently required, the ongoing test for a stable democracy is that the latter is but a pendulum that spends little time in the middle.

Interesting is the apparent philosophy of liberals that free speech is absolutely essential to a democracy, but only as long as it espouses the philosophies and ideologies of liberals, and as largely promoted by the media and often tenured, mainly unaccountable academics insulated from the real world. Spoken otherwise, it is “oppressive”, “racist”, “misogynist”, and all the other tags that many liberals like to affix on others who dare to disagree or present alternative opinions.

Hypocrisy can easily deceive but generally not be hidden. It just normally requires close inspection to penetrate the makeup powder that masks the reality.

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