Blame Canada

A friend of mine, one of a few bellweathers I use/used to indicate conservative actual thinkers, recently told me that the level of vitriol in my posts that it is time to cut back.  The canary is singing.  Listen or die.
The other canary gave itself a stroke bashing its head against the cage like a crazy psychotic pseudointellectual zombie....but that's another story...

So, instead of saying...the things I've been saying about those on the right end of the spectrum who are...liberal with the truth...I'm going to refer to them as "Our Less Fortunate Friends." or LFF.
So...is lying really necessary for LFF ideology?  My thoughts were last week that it was.  Lying and deception, especially self deception seem to only succeed in this country when the LFF's embrace them wholesale.  But then I think of Canada.

Canada is a thriving democracy.  Canada has universal health care.  Indeed, the canadian style of living has gone up for Canadians to the point that for the median population, their's is apparently higher than America's. 

And Canada has an LFF government.  But the thing is...in Canada, they have laws that limit free speech. I know! Shocking! Draconian! Death!  Clearly Fascism has found Canada.  Tell that to a Canadian some time...they'll laugh at you.  Now, the LFF party up north does lie...but ironically up there, tis the liberal party that lies MORE.  In fact, they lie more than the dems, to the point that no one trust them up there any more and part of how the LFF party got elected.  And they did so without fox news.

Canada understands the importance of having a press that can't just lie whenever it wants.  And they don't have the feared 'fairness doctrine' that holy holy holy apologists for the holy holy holy United States Constitution demand will cause civilization to crumble if the right to lie is not enshrined in freedom of speech.

Canada seems to be doing just fine.  Its not perfect...but neither is America.  But their democracy is real, and its thriving, despite some actual restraint on 'speech'...perhaps because one can have unlimited freedom of political speech...without the right to lie. 

Just saying.

But as I considered this, I had to come to the conclusion that LFF ideology does not require lying.  LFF media has spawned all over the globe, but other societys simply neither tolerate nor do they have the same degree of flagrant outright lying we do in the US of A.  So why even have it?

Well I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  There is LFF ideology...and then there is PLANTATIONIST ideology.

In fact, I think the lack of outright lying in LFF style ideology in other nations at the degree to which it happens here; isn't because LFF ideology needs it; southern apologists need it.  A resurgeant confederate ideal, manufactured and pruned and distrubited by the gruesome twosome in Alabama is a major force behind the lie factory.

How sad for us.

If only we were willing to do something about it.

We're not.

As a side note: Real conservatives apologize.