Brad Sallows
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>Contemplating any "other" solution is pretty scary in so many ways, Acorn.
Revolution doesn't have to be bloody. A simple campaign of industrial and infrastructure sabotage could probably bring Canada to its economic knees. Governments would quickly run short of money for big ideas if they had to run around fixing broken toys. For example, consider the economic losses of a longshoremans' strike - which doesn't actually involve very many workers - and then consider that there might be other ways to shut down a port. I don't worry about foreign terrorism so much as domestic sabotage by people fed up with being told how to live and without sufficient conscience to restrain themselves. I've seen plenty of senseless vandalism and whatnot in my time, so I'm not sure there's much restraint in people, or at least I'm not sure that it's particularly difficult for frustration to overcome self-restraint. That's why I'm so tirelessly monotonous on decentralizing and downsizing government in Canada: so that all folks can find their cultural optimum in some part of Canada and live content there. The Golden Rule - do unto others as you would have them do unto you - may very well be the linchpin of a civil society. Unfortunately, Canada seems to be polarizing rather rapidly and the people currently in power aren't very gracious in victory.
Revolution doesn't have to be bloody. A simple campaign of industrial and infrastructure sabotage could probably bring Canada to its economic knees. Governments would quickly run short of money for big ideas if they had to run around fixing broken toys. For example, consider the economic losses of a longshoremans' strike - which doesn't actually involve very many workers - and then consider that there might be other ways to shut down a port. I don't worry about foreign terrorism so much as domestic sabotage by people fed up with being told how to live and without sufficient conscience to restrain themselves. I've seen plenty of senseless vandalism and whatnot in my time, so I'm not sure there's much restraint in people, or at least I'm not sure that it's particularly difficult for frustration to overcome self-restraint. That's why I'm so tirelessly monotonous on decentralizing and downsizing government in Canada: so that all folks can find their cultural optimum in some part of Canada and live content there. The Golden Rule - do unto others as you would have them do unto you - may very well be the linchpin of a civil society. Unfortunately, Canada seems to be polarizing rather rapidly and the people currently in power aren't very gracious in victory.