"PASS THE "TRASH"??

"ABOVE" the Lower-48??

 

My visits to Canada have sometimes permitted discussion that compares "racism" in Canada to the "lower-48".  The Canadians have some interesting insights on the differences between the whites that emigrated from Europe to Canada and those who emigrated from Europe to what became the "States".   They differ  particularly in their views of the way each country "treated" their "First Nation" peoples (we were taught to call them "Indians").  The Canadians I met felt that they did not have the troubles we have because they didn't deal in "Treaties" with their First Nation Peoples; most of our treaties were abrogated with egregious and lasting effects.  It was their  Canadian "whites" that they were particularly proud of, though; because they felt Canadian whites were a 'cut above' those in the "Lower-48".

 

I would love to replay those conversations in the wake of  Mayor Ford of Toronto http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/15/toronto-city-council-rob-ford-powers/3575019/.  I'm sure our Tea Party members would compare quite "favorably" with the images we see of the Toronto Mayor.  Have we somehow "passed the trash" to theNorth?  Or; were they simply WRONG; and H.L.Mencken  was RIGHT; in his observation that it was not Europe's "best" that emigrated to the Americas.

 

"Pass the Trash" is one of my favorite poker games.  I'm sure the U.S can "see" Canada "once", and "raise" them "twice" when it comes to matters such as these.  The GOP has a particular fondness for white males of the sort that the Toronto Mayor presents.  They even complain of not being able to "find enough" of them!  If only we could "profit" by shipping some of our Tea Party Nuts to the NORTH?  We might make a serious dent in our national debt!

 

Stay Vigilant!  The more "exceptional" we think the U.S. is; the more we find that we're WRONG!

 

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