But there was still a certain pre-idiocracy societal decorum in place at the time of the end of segregation. Even the spectre of George Wallace wilts in the face of the abject reality of President Trump and his cabinet stooges. The new benchmark might be a homegrown Yankee version of the...

It would probably start with a brutal crackdown on those impelled to dance in the streets upon Trump's passing. And for that matter, with the seeds in Venezuela, Nigeria, etc planted, there's an excellent likelihood of a civil war escalating into a global war.

My point is more the eating-itself-alive process being potentially *accelerated* by his passing--contrary to a lot of popular anti-Trump sentiment predicting dancing in the streets etc etc. That is, it's just the thing that could wind up tripwiring Civil War II or some such domestic cataclysm.

Here's a question: if he dies, is there going be a return to some semblance of normal, or are things going to get worse? I mean, there's a side to Trump that'd practically wish for the latter. It'd be like the difference btw/canning the ballroom project and restoring the East Wing, and the...

Or a little bit of both, ie an opposition consisting of a bunch of non-viable mice. Which is how Michael Thompson managed to be re-elected last time despite the looming spectre of sex scandal. (Or how Ana Bailao managed to be re-elected in the most nominally "progressive" ward in the city in...

Ironically, Bradsquared might have better odds of becoming Mayor than he has of being reelected as Councillor--at least in the event of John Tory opting out and the "anti-socialist-horde" forces galvanizing around him, instead...

But the fact that said "renovate" is so tawdry in execution indicates that one might lead logically into the other. Like, to take more of a "restoration" approach rather than treating the old as something "dated" that requires "freshening up" could be even *more* of a raising-rents alibi (or...

I wonder if Starlight's habit of wrecking the integrity of decent 50s/60s/70s buildings (paint job, glassy balconies) is deliberately meant to prime them for future redevelopment like here...

Case in point: a normal "walk of Presidents" would avoid overly moralizing talk about Nixon & Watergate, Hoover & the Great Depression, Harding & Teapot Dome, Jackson & slavery, etc

Well, the news ban is strictly a Canadian thing, of course. However, it might be argued that even *before* the ban, comment-thread culture was making a mockery out of news--essentially, it amounted to the delinquents in the back of the classroom making fun of teechur. In which case, the...

But another striking thing about the "6ixbuzz youth" is the likelihood that they have absolutely *no* "legacy media" foundation--not even in the household. Older generations may have grown up with the ubiquitous shared presence of print and broadcast media, front-page headlines and all of that...

Let's also remember, re young people moving rightward, what I've been saying over and over--they probably disproportionately come from the kinds of households that are disposed rightward in the first place. Whereas the "educated left" is, in practice, not all that "reproductive".

Re the United Church: it might also say something about the role of "religiosity" in today's culture--plus the fact that the most "thriving" United congregations are the likes of Cheri DiNovo's Trinity-St Paul's. But by and large, those who abandoned the United Church were those who "went...

RFK Jr. probably thinks Tylenol was responsible for Reiner's son's "issues".

Thus my "literate" vs "post-literate" (civic literacy included) point.