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Penguins: 95 points. Flyers fan since '74. 'Nuff said. Yankees: 1 point. Cheered for them in the Reggie Jackson days, but they're the worst example of what's wrong with MLB now. Patriots: 2 points. I'll cheer for the underdog almost every time. I'm so sick of these guys winning. Oilers: 1 point. Long term grudge for what they've done to the Flyers and Jets in the playoffs over the years. Flyers: 1 point. Try being a Bomber fan AND a Flyers fan for 45 years (a combined 72 years of futility). I've also my reasons for hating Ed Snider (God rest his soul). Honourable mention - Any U.S. men's track & field sprint team.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/04/04/fox-news-contributor-wore-protective-vest-border-among-safest-spots-us/?utm_term=.d07be1da52a0

Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor and middle-class. https://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-why-socialism-rich-capitalism-poor-455066

Or maybe just maybe, autocratic and tyrannical leaders were/are actually apolitical and the politics were/are just a means to an end.

I'll see that and raise you the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. First word. Present day North Korea. Sometimes names aren't chosen for their accuracy.

How long have most poor people in Canada and the U.S. been poor?

All the things you have mentioned (except a one-party system) have happened in the U.S. in the last 100 years. The one party system has been replaced by an oligarchy, which is about as democratic.

I don't know what the ideal ratio is, but increasing it will likely have detrimental effects. Correlation between class size and reading performance from the results of the U.S. National Assessment of Educational Progress reading tests given in 2005 to 4th and 8th graders

Doug Ford doesn't feel his base is dumb enough yet, so he's going to lay off teachers. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/provincial-memo-teacher-cuts-1.5085851

Timely reminder: Trump appointed as IRS commissioner a tax attorney who wrote an opinion piece arguing that Trump should not release his returnshttps://t.co/hPeIpBMjyb — Ilya Marritz (@ilyamarritz) April 4, 2019

People have to first realize that a true socialist nor a true capitalist state has ever existed, so attacking either with a broad brush is useless. There have been successes and failures on variations (and combinations) of both. "So here’s the big difference: In Norway, capitalism serves the people. The government, elected by the people, sees to that. All eight of the parties that won parliamentary seats in the last national election—including the conservative Høyre party now leading the government—are committed to maintaining the welfare state. In the United States, however, neoliberal politics puts the foxes in charge of the henhouse, and capitalists have used the wealth generated by their enterprises (as well as financial and political manipulations) to capture the state and pluck the chickens. They’ve done a masterful job of chewing up organized labor. Today, only 11 percent of American workers belong to a union. In Norway, that number is 52 percent; in Denmark, 67 percent; in Sweden, 70 percent. Thus, in the United States, oligarchs maximize their wealth and keep it, using the “democratically elected” government to shape policies and laws favorable to the interests of their foxy class." "Which brings us to the heart of Scandinavian democracy: the equality of women and men. In the 1970s, Norwegian feminists marched into politics and picked up the pace of democratic change. Norway needed a larger labor force, and women were the answer. Housewives moved into paid work on equal footing with men, nearly doubling the tax base. That has, in fact, meant more to Norwegian prosperity than the coincidental discovery of North Atlantic oil reserves. The Ministry of Finance recently calculated that those additional working mothers add to Norway’s net national wealth a value equivalent to its “total petroleum wealth”—currently held in the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund, worth over $873 billion. By 1981, women were sitting in parliament, in the prime minister’s chair, and in her cabinet." "American feminists also marched for such goals in the 1970s, but the big boys, busy with their own White House intrigues, initiated a war on women that set the country back and still rages today in brutal attacks on women’s basic civil rights, healthcare, and reproductive freedom. In 1971, thanks to the hard work of organized feminists, Congress passed the bipartisan Comprehensive Child Development Bill to establish a multibillion-dollar national daycare system for the children of working parents. In 1972, President Richard Nixon vetoed it, and that was that. In 1972, Congress also passed a bill (first proposed in 1923) to amend the Constitution to grant equal rights of citizenship to women. Ratified by only 35 states—three short of the required 38—that Equal Rights Amendment was declared dead in 1982, leaving American women in legal limbo." https://www.thenation.com/article/after-i-lived-in-norway-america-felt-backward-heres-why/

You'd think that after firing the FBI director, the FBI Deputy Director, attempting to fire the Special Prosecutor and the Attorney General (who wouldn't recuse himself) and installing an acting AG (bypassing Senate confirmation) who was on record suggesting the investigation be de-funded and then installing an AG who believes presidents have king-like powers, people would recognize that Trump will do whatever he can to hide all of his and his family's misdeeds. Not to mention published and documented examples of conspiracy and attempted conspiracy..... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/08/manafort-polling-data-russia/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-adviser-roger-stone-admits-contact-with-guccifer-2-0-during-campaign/

He’s ‘super rich’, but we cannot see his tax returns. He’s a ‘high IQ genius’, but we cannot see his school grades. The Mueller Report ‘totally exonerates’ him, but we cannot read it. For the ‘most transparent POTUS ever’, Trump sure is hiding a lot from the American people. — Mike P Williams (@Mike_P_Williams) April 4, 2019

It's a little more complicated than they all support Trump or none support Trump. The poor and uneducated are targeted by the military for enlistment and that plays to Trump's base. Minorities are also targetted (for the same reason), but Trump does poorly with that demographic. Also keep in mind that 25% of respondents in a Military Times poll (2017) reported witnessing white nationalist behavior among fellow troops (it's no mystery who they support): https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2017/10/23/military-times-poll-one-in-four-troops-sees-white-nationalism-in-the-ranks/ Presidential visits are lousy indicators of troop support as expressing opposition would be viewed as insubordination to the Commander-In-Chief. It's also a common belief that military personnel lean right (and I have plenty of anecdotal evidence supporting this (but I don't believe in anecdotal evidence)), but that doesn't necessarily ring true at the voting booth: "123,724,157 Americans voted in 2016 (not counting votes for 3rd party candidates). If ten percent of the voters were active troops or inactive veterans, then about 12.4 million represents the military vote. If we divide the military pie into 8 slices, the slice that represents combat vets is about 1.55 million troops, but the other seven slices total 10.199 million troops that served in non-combat positions. Combat vets who voted for Trump = 930k Combat vets that voted for Clinton = 620k Non-Combat vets/troops that voted for Trump = 4.774 million Non-Combat vets/troops that voted for Clinton = 5.425 million Total for Trump = 5,704,000 Total for Clinton = 6,045,000" https://thesoulfulveteran.com/tag/who-did-the-us-military-really-vote-for-in-the-2016-us-election/

And Doug Ford - of all people, has become the most powerful Conservative voice in Canada.

"Electric vehicles are now the norm in Norway when it comes to new car sales, accounting for 58% of all car sales in March. Tesla's mass market Model 3 was especially popular, accounting for nearly 30% of new passenger vehicle sales, the Norwegian Information Council for Road Traffic, or OFV, says." https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/709131281/electric-cars-hit-record-in-norway-making-up-nearly-60-of-sales-in-march?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190402&fbclid=IwAR1skp3nitJra_cboaQU5g9YQOD_gQpIjKnAE_zPeToFrFpdoODfD4LoKXg

Meanwhile in Alberta, Conservatives gotta conservative. "The chief financial officer for former UCP leadership candidate Jeff Callaway is facing up to two years in prison or a $50,000 fine for allegations of "corrupt practice," in breach of the Elections Act. The Office of the Elections Commissioner (OEC) has been investigating those connected to Callaway's so-called "kamikaze" campaign during the 2017 UCP leadership race." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/jeff-callaway-ucp-investigation-cfo-eaton-1.5082129 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ucp-mark-smith-drayton-valley-homosexual-1.5081799

If you think a major tenet of feminism is that women shall never be questioned or disciplined, I don't think you understand the concept of feminism.

"Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average, according to a new government report. The study — Canada's Changing Climate Report (CCCR) — was commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada. It says that since 1948, Canada's annual average temperature over land has warmed 1.7 C, with higher rates seen in the North, the Prairies and northern British Columbia." https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-warming-at-twice-the-global-rate-leaked-report-finds-1.5079765

Also Liberals: 17 current female cabinet ministers. 17 men. Conservatives at dissolution in 2015: 11 female cabinet ministers. 24 men. So at least one of the parties walks the walk and doesn't prorogue parliament to avoid scrutiny.

Narrator: He didn't.

It's all about the batteries. EV's already require less upkeep than combustion vehicles, so they're already superior in that regard. Once an EV will get you the range of a similarly priced combustion vehicle (and we're talking $20,000-$35,000 for a car and $45,000-$55,000 for a truck) all bets are off. The majority of all new vehicles purchased will shift to EV in 10 years max.

No.... he's the worst, too.

“And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitrust regulation of tech companies. The entrepreneurs were willing to participate in making the world better if you pursued that goal in a way that exonerated and celebrated and depended on them.” ― Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World makes a lot of great points in his book regarding philanthropy and society's misguided appreciation for it. Unfair to sum it up in one quote, but here goes: “More often, though, these elites start initiatives of their own, taking on social change as though it were just another stock in their portfolio or corporation to restructure. Because they are in charge of these attempts at social change, the attempts naturally reflect their biases.”