Tin Soldiers And Trump Is Coming

Early Sunday morning, the wounding of former U.S. president Donald Trump was the third of five trending posts on the Globe and Mail.

That’s astonishing.

The favourite to win the upcoming U.S. election, the death of a spectator and the shooting of the alleged suspect is the third most popular post on Canada’s national newspaper.

How can that be? Have Canadians become so accustomed to violence south of the border that the shooting of an ex-president is greeting with apathy? Is that business-as-usual in a country that espouses freedom so much that the right to bear arms is sacred. What kind of insanity is that?

Worse than that is a sick attitude that allows school children to be shot by disturbed people and yet no significant arms control results.

Furthermore. how will the mega-A-type personality of Trump respond to being bloodied? Trump is a eccentric and bizarre person … a felon who could become president. There was a time when committing a crime would eliminate a candidate from holding the office of dog-catcher let alone the U.S. presidency. The biggest shortages in the world now are ethics, competence and empathy. You don’t need to look for those shortages within Ottawa’s own borders.

The madness is not complete. A strong proponent of the right-to-bear arms is shot. When gun proponents are shot, where does the insanity end? A beer-hall putsch on Jan. 6? Dictatorship-by-democracy as per the last days of the Weimar Republic?

Your agent lost faith in the U.S. during the early days of the Covid crisis when that country held onto vaccines and other anti-Covid goods that had been purchased by Canada in a free-trade relationship. Those are your friends? Friends perhaps by necessity but not necessarily friends. When the going gets tough, the bullies don’t help. It speaks volumes about Americans. In the relationship between our two countries, it’s all about them.

Instead of honouring the free-trade deal in a time of crisis, the Americans took the greedy route. Free trade until it becomes inconvenient. Free trade as long as America comes first. In other times, people called that ethnocentrism. Easier is greedy and selfish.

That our new free-trade partners in the European Union jumped to sell vaccines in the Covid crisis to Canada speaks volumes. It puts the Americans to shame if they had any shame. Almost all of them didn’t know and couldn’t care less.

A lot of guns down there. A lot of guns in the hands of whack-jobs and misguided people. Kind of stupid people.

Guns everywhere and the centre is not holding. We can only hope that a Trump-led U.S. will ignore Canada. You don’t know what that guy might try next.

Canada should prepare to defend itself with the limited resource we have.

Tin soldiers and Trump is coming.

Ken Gray

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