In a direct address to the nation, Prime Minister Mark Carney has reframed Canada's long-standing relationship with the United States as a 'weakness' that must be urgently corrected under the shadow of the Trump presidency.
I’m making a general observation, directed to no one and everyone in the USA at the same time, including myself, that the concept of collective guilt does apply to aggressor countries.
There is always something that was not done. Even if the lack of action for the individual was trivial, minor, laughable even. If the reader thinks they are exempt, I invite them to read more history.
My particular crime was staying silent about votes not being accurately counted in my state (Texas).
My background as a computer programmer, who contributed to large systems similar to the software used, rang alarm bells inside me for years.
Particularly after exit polls were diverging worse from the norm. And I had questions and insights that were helpful.
But I understood the issue as an impossible conversation to have except among friends and fellow believers, so I simply stopped participating in the Democratic Party because of it 10 years ago, well before it became unfashionable to critique the voting systems.
I had little influence, so anything I could have said would have little, if any, impact. But when one thinks how many other people who have a background in large systems also were silent … one gets the picture, I hope.
I’m making a general observation, directed to no one and everyone in the USA at the same time, including myself, that the concept of collective guilt does apply to aggressor countries.
There is always something that was not done. Even if the lack of action for the individual was trivial, minor, laughable even. If the reader thinks they are exempt, I invite them to read more history.
My particular crime was staying silent about votes not being accurately counted in my state (Texas).
My background as a computer programmer, who contributed to large systems similar to the software used, rang alarm bells inside me for years.
Particularly after exit polls were diverging worse from the norm. And I had questions and insights that were helpful.
But I understood the issue as an impossible conversation to have except among friends and fellow believers, so I simply stopped participating in the Democratic Party because of it 10 years ago, well before it became unfashionable to critique the voting systems.
I had little influence, so anything I could have said would have little, if any, impact. But when one thinks how many other people who have a background in large systems also were silent … one gets the picture, I hope.