{"id":8466,"date":"2021-01-02T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:48:57","slug":"in-democracies-it-it-normal-to-1-see-the-american-and-almost-all-canadian-media-going-into-one-direction-about-the-us-elections-2-have-a-private-company-like-twitter-watching-each-tweet-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/in-democracies-it-it-normal-to-1-see-the-american-and-almost-all-canadian-media-going-into-one-direction-about-the-us-elections-2-have-a-private-company-like-twitter-watching-each-tweet-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"In democracies, it it normal to: 1. see the American and almost all Canadian media going into one direction about the US Elections? & 2. have a private company, like Twitter, watching each tweet of its own President (up until January 20th) and adding their own comments?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What is happening South of the border is no longer about the Republicans (i.e., Mr. Trump) or the Democrats (i.e., the duo of Mr. Biden-Ms. Harris). What is unfolding under our eyes is about democracy (or lack of) and it is sad, if not worrisome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi can understand when such behaviours occur in third\nworld countries (yes, including her own birth country), but not the USA. She does\nnot understand. Even if we dislike Mr. Trump, what he is denouncing (fraud) is\nSERIOUS and deserves to be addressed with as much objectivity and decency as\npossible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not about the Republicans. It is not about this\nodd President. It is about democracy. Period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi is saying so, after having watched a couple of\nhearings about those claims of fraud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is saying so and she is not a Mr. Trump supporter.\nShe is just observing from far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her, all the phenomenon resembles more totalitarianism\nthan anything else. It is even scary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, we read Canadian media titles and\narticles deviating our attention from what is unfolding, but telling us gossips\nabout how Mr. Trump and his wife argue about their renovations (https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/trump-moody-and-angry-over-melanias-mar-a-lago-renovations<\/a>).\nHonestly speaking, does anyone care about a couple\u2019s conversations or fights, assuming\nit is authentic information?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, are we reading silly media in countries in the\nthird world during civil war times? Or are we reading serious articles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it normal not to see any single article explaining us the two versions and the debate and letting use our own judgment, to come to the conclusion that Mr. Trump is out of his mind or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, Mr. Trump may not have the most assembling\npersonality in the world. How could you when you would likely score so high on narcissism\ntests? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s be fair to him also, the media has not treated him well since Day 1. He is not one of the elite and he is vulgar, which does not help his case. Yet, he is followed by many on his Twitter (even Bambi reads him, especially lately. She even laughs at his style ?. For instance, she heard his Christmas message. A nice message with Ms. Melania minus the part on Christmas. It was a turn off for Bambi and yet she has the same Christian faith in her heart. He insisted on reminding us how much Jesus is the Messiah, the savour\u2026 he referred to the Bible, and blahblahblah\u2026). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of this funny video, she does not know\nabout you, but for Bambi, what matters the most in solving the world\u2019s problems\nmust be the actions of politicians, not their taste in renovations or in women\n(or men!). Not even their direct and often awful words about colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policies affect people\u2019s lives, domestically and worldwide.\nTaste in decorating one\u2019s home does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come back to the issue of claims of elections\u2019\nfraud, regardless of the winner, we must be concerned. Why? Because countries\nmatter more than one single leader or one single political party. Countries\nmust always come first and be above. Bambi has seen what happens to a country\nwhen partisanship, pandering, corruption, and militia rule. The whole world has\nan example of not-to-do in politics: Please do not Lebanonize the United\nStates, with or without Mr. Trump. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is happening South of the border is no longer about the Republicans (i.e., Mr. Trump) or the Democrats (i.e., the duo of Mr. Biden-Ms. Harris). What is unfolding under our eyes is about democracy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}