tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post4296788182152868943..comments2024-03-28T10:07:24.955-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Whose Populism?Owen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-45815033569205569832010-10-05T15:55:32.015-04:002010-10-05T15:55:32.015-04:00Everything about O'Donnell is anti-elite. To a...Everything about O'Donnell is anti-elite. To a large degree, it is the failure of "the best and the brightest" which is fueling voter anger on both sides of the border.<br /><br />In Canada, the Harper government is trying to cast itself as the enemy of "the Toronto elites."<br /><br />But when a nation consciously puts its future in the hands of the ignorant, there can be no good outcome.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-29854496008139983902010-10-05T13:55:10.455-04:002010-10-05T13:55:10.455-04:00She is like many of her potential supporters (&quo...She is like many of her potential supporters ("I'm you," she says in her tv ad)- not much education, spotty work history, neurotic about sexuality, anti-intellectual, and full of slogans and religious nuttiness.<br /><br />Populist she may be (or is that rather the lowest common denominator), but her fitness to be in government is highly suspect. <br /><br />I know we can point to many who also aren't fit by virtue of their behaviour rather than their abilities - on both sides of the border - but she is unfit in skills, knowledge,and accomplishment. She is severely limited before she begins.ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.com