The unexamined life is not worth living. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz.
For over sixty years, from Argentina to Canada, there has been no leader of his stature and influence, and none so admired – except in the US and some of its supplicant dependents. (more…)
¡Pasmado! Do cry for me, Uruguay. Or, welcome to the real world of fantasy.
If one remembers, or is reminded, there was much excitement sometime ago, from the very responsible US media of a likely, very strong spike in US tourism to Uruguay, a Spanish-speaking country way down there. For beaches, as in the Caribbean or similar spots? ¡De ninguna manera! The great expectation was based on the legislative debates and then approval there of the sale of limited quantities of marijuana, with the aim of allowing the country to focus more on crimes that are crimes and other more pressing issues than ‘taking a puff’. So, a voyage to the ‘outer limits’ for just a puff? Mercifully for Uruguay, shortly after there would come the news that similar legalisation would be allowed in some states of the US.
And with the president-elect of the US who failed to lose the elections, and did so badly, came other news. Anger and fury of many of his non-supporters who had bought with credit card or other their New Balance shoes. Such anger and fury that – oh! over there the responsible media and tv cameras to record! – they had something of a Bonfire of Inanities (and Stupidities) as they burnt their shoes at the steak (?), because some New Balance official might have indicated support for the president-elect. The good news is that such campaigners for a lower ‘carbon foot-print’ certainly did show those climate-deniers how to do it, and ‘virally’ so.
Then would appear the joyous dénouement, as the astute corporate media would report, ‘staying on message’, seriously so. Au Canada! Pick up the children after school. Head to the airport. Or just drive (or yacht off) to Canada to be greeted rapturously by grateful Canadians and transported immediately to the old home and same schools and same neighbourhood, in Canada. Yet that strong evidence of being in Canada, an inability to pronounce ‘about’ other than strangely. But still there would remain that impediment, the patriotic and resolute refusal to learn to speak a second language, French, in the bi-lingual country. Ô Canada!
Yet, given such responsible, media-conditioned US voters, there is still shock that the president-elect (or even Boris Badenov) would or could have lost, popular vote or not? Seriously?
The democracy most know has over the years undergone a radical transformation in the United States. Where one person, one vote would traditionally work, in the US the candidates in general tend to represent the corporations that fund their candidacy and political positions. The two political parties which admit of no serious contenders have become corporate, and the citizens they are elected to represent have been largely ignored – until the next voting cycle approaches. (more…)
The Muttering Morocoy 