[Magdalen] More Like Canada?

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

We have to remain with them to save them from themselves.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> This is excerpted in The Week, a magazine I read regularly.
> Lind is a 4th generation southerner from Texas himself.  He  brings
> up some food for thought.  There have been some strong  commentary
> disputing his views, as might be expected.
>
>
>
> <<<On  Friday, "Politco" contributing editor, Michael Lind postulated that:
> “The  United States would be much less exceptional in general, and in
> particular more  like other English-speaking democracies such as Britain,
> Canada,
> Australia and  New Zealand were it not for the effects on U.S. politics and
> culture of the  American South.  I don’t mean this in a good way. A lot of
> the traits that  make the United States exceptional these days are
> undesirable, like higher  violence and less social mobility. Many of these
> differences can be attributed  largely to the South.”
> Lind  goes on:
> “Some  deluded Southerners still pine for secession from the Union. Yet no
> doubt there  are also more than a few liberal Northerners who would be
> happy
> to see them go.  Minus the South, the rest of the U.S. probably would be
> more like Canada  or Australia or Britain or New Zealand—more secular, more
> socially liberal, more  moderate in the tone of its politics and somewhat
> more
> generous in social  policy.”>>>>
> David S.
>