{"id":3525,"date":"2020-04-16T12:29:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2020-04-16T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:28:38","slug":"should-we-always-applaud-our-governments-no-matter-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/04\/16\/should-we-always-applaud-our-governments-no-matter-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we always applaud our governments no matter what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Those who know Bambi in person may have noticed that\nshe likes the term highlighted in the picture above: \u201cBravo\u201d. She likes it, especially\nthat we can use it in so many languages, including English, French, Arabic, even\nGerman, and of course\u2026 Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, should we always feel obliged to say bravo or\napplaud entities or individuals, even when witnessing underperformance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can of course understand how they may have been frozen\nby fear or overwhelmed or paralyzed by their ideology or cumbersome\nbureaucracy, etc. We are all human. However, in pandemics, we do not have the luxury\nof time to act or take a fast decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, here is the CBC\narticle, she will be referring to below. It is entitled: \u201cThe pandemic seems\nto be giving Canadians warm feelings about government. Can it last?\u201d<\/em> It is\nsigned by Mr. Aaron Wherry: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-government-polling-1.5533700?cmp=rss<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the article in question made Bambi remember a\nTV moment with her dad when she visited her family in Beirut, Lebanon, a few\nyears ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scene, which took place in the Syrian Parliament when\nMr. Assad Junior was \u201cre-elected\u201d, predating their civil war. It showed the Syrian\npoliticians applauding. The TV moment lasted for SEVERAL long minutes (5, 10,\n15\u2026 Bambi lost count ?).\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone was applauding and re-applauding\u2026 and this\nseemed to go on forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi\u2019s dad, a wise man, asked her: \u201cDo you know\nwhy they are not stopping their applause<\/em>?\u201d Bambi was so amused (and felt\nsad for the Syrian people) when her dad said: \u201cNo one wants to be seen as\nthe first to stop applauding<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Bambi can allow herself to draw such a comparison,\na bit like the Syrian public servants, our CBC journalists seem to rush to be\nthe first to applaud the federal government, without critical sense (it seems\nto have been surgically removed a while ago). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, this article did not mention Mr. Trump, for\na change. Bambi has noticed a classical journalistic pattern in Canada (sometimes\neven used by our own PM in his answers to journalists during his daily speeches):\nMentioning Mr. Trump, as a comparison, makes Canadians feel better. Yes, they\ncan allow themselves to make fun of him WITHOUT questioning their own PM\u2019s\ninconsistencies or immaturity. They can tell themselves, or our government may perhaps\nthink they would tell themselves: Thank Goodness, Trudeau is not Trump, even if\nthey share the same first letter in their family names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this all what we aspire for as Canadians? To beat Mr. Trump\u2019s style\/bad reputation? The bar is not set high then, isn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, Bambi wrote the above and she is not a Trump\nsupporter. However, she knows when\/how to recognize when he may be right on something\nor doing something serving the best interests of his country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if she did not vote for Mr. Trudeau a second\ntime, she also knows how to appreciate his good decisions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, even Mr. Trump, can be right sometimes. Similarly,\neven Mr. Trudeau, can be wrong at other times. The latter can even be pointless,\neven if he may have a richer vocabulary and even if he does not have orange\nhair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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