Bernice Said:

How can we defeat the Conservative Party of Canada?

We Answered:

Well if Montreal and Quebec would succeed and go back to english rule , the rest of Canada has enough sense to become part of the USA, problem solved.
But I doubt England would take you LibDicks back but maybe France would.
Go for it, Please !

Teresa Said:

What is Canada and the US's relationship like?

We Answered:

Thank you for asking such a poignant and well -written question. Unfortunately, the questions in this category posted by American YA users are usually bordering on assinine. We try to be polite when we answer the, but sometimes we slip up and let our sarcastic side out. It's nice to see someone is truly interested in exploring the differences between two countries that the rest of the world views as similar.

You might be interested in reading this article: http://www.theseminal.com/2007/06/01/bef… I stumbled upon it while doing research for another YA answer. It explains some of the historical and political differences.

I'm very sorry to tell you that many Americans do act quite arrogant when they travel. We are smart enough to know that they do not represent ALL Americans, but the arrogance can be a little irritating. Many tend to not be very good international travellers. I've worked internationally in the hospitality industry for many years -- I could tell you some remarkable stories about your fellow countrymen.

And we don't understand why Americans want to live in fear all the time. The whole terrorist-colour-warning thing is very strange to us. Alot of decisions seem to be made based on irrational fear. For example, you may have heard that there was recently a horrific murder on a bus in Canada. Instantly, American YA posters started to say that there should be metal detectors at all bus stations -- Cdn posters said that they did not want to punish the millions of honest people who use the bus system everyday because of the actions of one person (who clearly had some mental breakdown). We also allow you to get your gas prior to paying for it. Why? Because it's better to risk that one dishonest person MIGHT steal gas, than it is to inconvenience a whole population. Sorry -- I hate having to pay for my gas before I pump it. It's irritating.

I do feel we are more alike people in Europe, specifically Britain, than we are similar to the US.

By the way, I recently posted an answer regarding the Federal tax rates being less in Canada than they are in the US (most people assume all Cdn taxes are higher -- they are not). http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind…
In response to my answer, one of your fellow US citizens emailed me privately, called me a bunch of racial slurs, and said a bunch of other very impolite things. It's not very nice to be called a racist for quoting Federal Tax Rates -- it made me think that US citizens are brainwashed to think that they only way you can have universal healthcare is to pay more taxes than anyone else. How many Canadians do you see complaining about paying taxes? There are a few, but you'll find the educated ones will never complain about paying them.

The healthcare issue is a huge divide. Canadians have universal health care. We do not worry about getting hurt, or getting sick. It helps us lead happy, worry-free lives. We also tend to not look for someone to sue if we slip and fall. I think it's because if a Cdn slips and falls, we just go to the hospital and get ourselves fixed -- no need to sue someone for negligence, it was an accident.

Obviously, the differences are much more complicated than gas pumps, personal injury lawsuits and bus station security measures, but I think we can only learn if we actually talk about our differences in a mature an open manner. Good job on opening the door. :)

Annette Said:

Why does Glenn Beck comapre Liberal policies to Nazism so often?

We Answered:

Beck is a lying con man, heavily backed by the most destructive elements in the world. His mission is to sew fraud, discontent, distrust of government, and so on, via any malignant, malicious, and devious methods. I borrowed the below from a friend.

"The ultra-right's political culture and dialectic does not allow real scholarship. The idea is to disassociate themselves from their own philosophical and political forebears, no matter what. And usually, they secretly admire and even worship Hitler and his gang of criminals.

It is a carefully crafted fiction, and a monstrous delusion of the lowest, most loathsome order.

William L. Shirer in THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH noted that there was little or no socialism in "National Socialism".

Thyssen (I PAID HITLER and many others) pointed out that the "marriage" of business and the National Socialist Party, despite Hitler's contempt for aristocracy and business in general, guaranteed high profits for businesses. Ironically, his steel company was seized over what amounted to a personal hassle with the hierarchy, and handed over for administration and profit to Krupp/von Bohlen, rather than being "nationalized" in the pure sense, which is what would've happened in a left wing state.

Albert Speer, the Third Reich's last Armaments Minister, in INSIDE THE THIRD REICH makes clear that he had great difficulty controlling fiefdoms and bailiwicks of various private firms well into 1944, when the war was already going to pieces. He also notes the privatization of all the formerly state-owned arsenals, even the huge ones at Suhl, Spandau, and Amberg (13 in all!).

Public education, of course, had been one of the key features of all organized states since Roman times. And National Public Health in Germany was enacted 1871-83, before Hitler was BORN, by the Bismarck government.

Hitler's state enacted NO new welfare programs, and eliminated many, sending former "loafers" to the death or work camps. Almost none qualified for military service, as the Weimar Republic had always claimed.

Hitler, of course, much like today's conservatives, attacked the Weimar government as "intrusive" and "socialist", and he HATED "Bolshevism" (Marxism) and "social democrats" (socialists), and proclaimed it loudly on almost every page of MEIN KAMPF.

Bullock, Toland, Heisler, and hundreds of others verify that there was no nationalization in Nazi Germany, and indeed, the general trend was in the other direction. Railroads were amalgamated and standardized for military purposes, but this had been a plan for at least 80 years!

Himmler, well before the Wannsee Conference, and after the "Night of the Long Knives", which eventuated the disposal of any and all left-sympathizing party members, including Ernst Roehm, about 1938, enunciated to a mass meeting of the SchutzStaffel (S.S.): "We are of the right and of order. We shall sweep away Jews, Bolsheviks, and liberal democracies as one sweeps away flies."

Here's the deal: You can hear LOTS of things, especially if listening to clowns. But every scholar clearly identifies the Nazis with the right wing, and no one serious does NOT identify them with the reactionary right wing. All the historians agree. That Beck fails to, in public, identifies him.

The inclusion of the "s" word was a clumsy but sometimes convenient leftover from a merger well described in the literature.

Notice none of the right wingers in here or anywhere else EVER quote the genuine research.
They rely--if they quote anything!--on a few snippets from the Strasser brothers and others who had some leftist leanings and wrote some early pamphlets and speeches in the period 1922-31. What the denizens of today's ultra-right never manage to utter aloud is that they--the Strassers, Roehm, and hundreds of other luminaries--and any other "revolutionaries" were tracked down and murdered for even enunciating in propaganda anything that SOUNDED "left wing".

Short answer: the strict rules of today's right wing approach (see Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg) require this strange fantasy. It's a sort of "rights of passage" couched in the ridiculous.

More information and sources? All the credible ones agree. The extraordinary and preposterous claims by liars like Beck would require exceptional levels of proof, and Beck offers--well, absolutely nothing that means anything to anyone rational.

It's reality that counts. Drunks in bars and idiots spewing madness in chat rooms are not sources of ANY kind! And the same applied to uncredentialed and unportfolioed so-called "pundits" who claim Nazis were "progressive" or "liberal", which is a huge, undocumented, insidious, and criminal lie. Those who claim Nazis were leftists lack the credibility of the wino who pees in my alley.

No, Hitler and the Nazis were about as far from "socialists", liberals, and progressives as it is possible to be."

Beck is PURE FRAUD and the basest of hucksters.