Schiff Has U.S.-Canada Split Wrong: THE VOTER
California Senator Adam Schiff in his short video featured in The Bulldog claims that Prime Minister Mark Carney said in “anger” that the relationship between the two countries was over.
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Those remarks weren’t made in anger or even an “I’m picking up my marbles and I’m out of here” type of comment.
It was more of a statement of facts, specifically that the U.S. had ended the decades-long relationship rather than that we were abandoning it. It was Carney documenting the sunset of a glorious day when we had been partners and friends in so many ways rather than us walking away into a sunset and leaving them behind.
Schiff’s comments had a lack of understanding that the dissolution of the relationship was the doing purely and solely of the Americans. Canada can’t be in a relationship with a partner who, in spite of our best efforts, has withdrawn. He’s not the first American to try to make this a two-sided split when, in fact, it is the result of the actions of only one of the parties.
This video should be aimed at Americans rather than Canadians since the initiation of and the potential solution to the sundering of the relationship lies at the feet of one, not both, partners. It’s your mess, Schiff, and you need to wear it. A focus on how wonderful we have been as friends of yours totally misses the reality of what is going on. If anything, it highlights to an even greater extent the error of your ways and why you, not we, need to repair things.
The Voter is a respected community activist and long-time Bulldog commenter who prefers to keep her identity private.
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Thank you, Voter. I wasn’t sure about the intent of the post and so didn’t respond. If Mr. Schiff’s comments were intended to make Canadians feel better I found them to be condescending. I watched the grating video longer than I had intended once the plot began to unfold but didn’t make it to the final credits.
Sisco,
I know what you mean! I watched it a couple of times to be sure I wasn’t misconstruing what he was saying.
I don’t think he meant it to come out that way – he, like so many Americans, just doesn’t get it. They’re so far up their own backsides with “American Exceptionalism” and the concept that the country they live in has been the best country on earth since Creation that they simply aren’t capable of seeing the whole picture. While we’re far from perfect, I hope Canada’s humility keeps us from falling into that trap.
I feel like they are the kid in the playground who broke your toy while beating the living daylights out of you and now is telling you he wishes you could both play with it again while regaling you with all the good times you had together while the toy was whole. Oh and too bad about your bloody nose – he really hopes it doesn’t get all over him though. His mum would be so mad if his new shirt got messed up with your blood!
I’m not sure how you get them to understand why we aren’t going to just find another toy and go back to the playground with them. I’ve tried explaining things to individual Americans and usually get a blank stare in return – it’s like I’m talking a language they have never learned. The very occasional time I will manage to get through and then they’re mortified.
I do find that even the most open Americans still have engrained in them from childhood that the USofA is the best and the rightful leader of the world and, in that role, is entitled to take advantage of others – it’s somehow for our own good or something. That’s how people like he-who-shall-not-be-named and his cronies are able to persuade their countrymen and women to go along with things that are so clearly not in their best interests … although they are certainly in his best interests.
And, of course, the coming recession is the fault of the penguins on that uninhabited island in the Southern Hemisphere! If they’d only traded fairly with the US these many years, we wouldn’t be in this mess!! Gotta keep your eye on the penguins – now they’ll have to sign a deal to atone for their past wickedness!! Maybe they’ll give him all their guano – apparently it makes good fertilizer!! We know he’s familiar with fertilizer …
Exactly what I thought. He and his party didn’t have the guts to go after him and just let “Dumpster” win by doing nothing.
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff is a contradiction in himself. While he clearly detests Donald Trump and everything he stands for, he is remiss to do much about it but pontificate.
Thumping one’s chest will get airtime, but that’s about it.
The seriousness of our times has yet to sink in to Democrats save for Bernie, AOC, Jasmine, Newsome and a couple more.
Insofar as Canada is concerned, it’s time for Canadians to take the blinders off.