tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post882297037617530060..comments2024-03-29T10:02:52.586-04:00Comments on Politics and its Discontents: The Stupid Among UsLornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-31486682647882905132014-01-29T06:41:32.971-05:002014-01-29T06:41:32.971-05:00The left really does not have a high opinion of th...The left really does not have a high opinion of the 'working class'. I'm a 'lefty' who can recognize truth. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11317448838880715203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-894755656110190342013-11-15T08:41:38.473-05:002013-11-15T08:41:38.473-05:00There seems to be no limit to Ford's capacity ...There seems to be no limit to Ford's capacity for idiocy and debasement, LDLornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-37015678872633573592013-11-15T08:35:53.474-05:002013-11-15T08:35:53.474-05:00Yesterday he used the "P" word condemnin...Yesterday he used the "P" word condemning a woman who was his employee. She had apparently complained about sexual advances made by Rob Ford towards her. How more stupid will he get?LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-64989246998042617072013-11-14T19:31:31.210-05:002013-11-14T19:31:31.210-05:00Thanks for your observations and analysis, Rene. I...Thanks for your observations and analysis, Rene. It is indeed amazing the responses and reactions the scandal has provoked.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-64356496918196943192013-11-14T18:40:58.407-05:002013-11-14T18:40:58.407-05:00Curiously, Mayor Ford has found defenders among t...Curiously, Mayor Ford has found defenders among the "revolutionary left" spectrum of Progressive Bloggers who consider his described behavior - drug abuse, staggering about drunk in public, public urination, physical assault on staffers and political opponents alike, sexual assault on women - exemplifies "working class" values, that his critics are engaging in hypocritical "moral outrage" reflecting a left wing cover to a "right wing palace coup" and the polite left's "contempt for the great unwashed" and "downtown, whitebread, middle class snobbery". <br /><br />Politics does make for strange bedfellows and for occasional curious defense of criminal behavior. With respect to the classic "palace coup" reference, I don't recall Trotsky's "History" taking up defense of Rasputin's public drunken orgies, physical assaults, sexual assaults as some type of liberal or constitutional democrat contempt for solid Russian peasant virtues or complaining or Russian police abusing their powers and violating Rasputin's rights by reporting on such behavior.<br /><br />Such condemnation of the "polite left's" petty bourgeois "moral outrage" by self-described revolutionaries is typical of such advocates as Britain's late unlamented Gerry Healy, bereft of any moral code themselves who engaged in all sorts of reprehensible behavior, extending from physical assaults on supporters and adversaries alike to sexual assaults on women, all excusable because they ostensibly subscribed to worthy social ideals......Renehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969453615157584548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-50953920812260497632013-11-14T15:57:43.783-05:002013-11-14T15:57:43.783-05:00We can only hope that this 'world-class city&#...We can only hope that this 'world-class city' emerges from this experience with a new humility, Anon.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-70052151025562684062013-11-14T15:54:57.714-05:002013-11-14T15:54:57.714-05:00It always seems to come down to the seamier aspect...It always seems to come down to the seamier aspect of politics, doesn't it, LD?Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-2563361735073142542013-11-14T14:30:14.267-05:002013-11-14T14:30:14.267-05:00Thank you, Robert.Thank you, Robert.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-85476810391570508092013-11-14T13:33:41.915-05:002013-11-14T13:33:41.915-05:00Lorne, the premier of Ontario has the authority to...Lorne, the premier of Ontario has the authority to remove him from his office. Why does she not? Worried about her own political fortune.LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-63846084989230172382013-11-14T13:32:49.486-05:002013-11-14T13:32:49.486-05:00Toronto has always looked down on the other Ontari...Toronto has always looked down on the other Ontario Municipalities as some how being better and therefore more deserving of Provincial and Federal consideration. <br /><br />As for Rob Ford, he only reinforces my long held view of Toronto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-24604482330580107962013-11-14T11:29:26.365-05:002013-11-14T11:29:26.365-05:00WWF also comes to mind, Owen, especially when Rob ...WWF also comes to mind, Owen, especially when Rob menacingly approached Minnam-Wong and Doug, in true tag-team style, grabbed his wrist.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-86763288683364493862013-11-14T10:43:49.054-05:002013-11-14T10:43:49.054-05:00It's sad. Lorne. As I caught clips of what hap...It's sad. Lorne. As I caught clips of what happened at City Hall yesterday, I thought I was watching an episode of The Jerry Springer Show.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.com