OOPS … wrong video … Choice quotes from speech: We had an incredible victory. Be encouraged. We have won … Well, you know what I mean by—my joking big brother goes: ‘We won? Did we miss something?’ You know what I meant. “We’ve got a lot of food. We’ve got the room all night. So,…
Tag Archive: Tea Party
The Politics of Anger in Canada’s Cities
The election of Rob Ford in Toronto is just another sign that Canada is under the same thrall of angry voters as in the US. The characteristics of this “movement” are fear, visceral anger against anything institutional, an attack on anything perceived as elitist and an ignoring of facts or statistics. The vehicle for this…
Michael Geller and the ABCD and Es of Intolerance in Vancouver
The language is oh-so seductive. If you think of the population as divided into five groups on a social and economic basis –As, Bs, Cs, Ds, Es, – when you start putting together the As and the Es, there is the potential for people to not get along … If you’re going to mix people,…