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Portrait of a Self-Loathing Canadian

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Wow. I can almost taste the bile seeping over our border to the north. I actually feel sorry for this guy. But he’s certainly right at home at the anti-American Advocate. (I ask again, show me I’m wrong with that charge. When does the Advocate celebrate this nation, rather than tear it down?)

Dear America — by Matthew Hays on Advocate.com (Why am I not surprised Hays writes for the America-loving New York Times?)

As a Canadian, I want to apologize. For many years, I looked down on you. I sniffed at your capital punishment, right-leaning government, and massive military. I would comfort myself with the sense that I was better than you. After all, I’m a Canadian.

But all that changed on January 23 when Canada elected a conservative government with ties to far-right organizations. Boy, was I wrong!

Our sense of superiority grew in 2000 when you elected George W. Bush. With that came talk of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, the refusal to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol, and last, but certainly not least, the invasion of Iraq. In those six years, I have never felt happier or more proud to be Canadian. And I rubbed it in every chance I got: Whenever I would bump into one of you Americans at a cocktail party, it was attitude, attitude, attitude.

I’m sorry for that—I really am. There can be no more smug attitudes. No more sneering self-righteousness. No jokes about your fascist state. Welcome to the new Canada: Our prime minister, Stephen Harper, says he is opposed to same-sex marriage and is willing to appease his base by reopening the issue—meaning a potential rolling back of gay rights in our country. And he has promised to withdraw Canada’s support for the Kyoto Protocol. Worst of all, when Bush set out to invade Iraq, Harper was the only party leader in parliament to rise and say we should be alongside the United States in that unjust and immoral war.

Ah, what does he know with his beady little eyes and flappin’ head so full of lies? Well, perhaps he could move to San Francisco. I’m sure he’d fit in well there… as long as he doesn’t trip over the taxpayer-subsidized homeless people every six feet.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  2. Bruce, that sound of hot air escaping was reality pricking Matthew Hays’ proverbial balloon of smugness, condescension, and self-promoting intellectual superiority… only a GayLeft apologist could see ruin in the Canadian people throwing off the yoke of liberal oppression.

    God Bless those Canadians who voted to the Right; the borders are open for business again.

  3. Man, Matt sounds like a spoiled little brat! I’m not for rolling back gay rights. But if the gay leftists hadn’t insisted upon shoving “gay marriage” down traditionalists throats there wouldn’t be a possibility for a roll back. Civil union is the way to go – duh! Anyway, maybe now Canada can start making itself useful in the world again. One more thing Matt – allowing a murderous/genocidal dictatorship like Saddam’s to continue unchecked is immoral. And that’s precisely what you advocate. Jerk!

  4. The trouble with folks like Matt is that they don’t go far enough. Their liberalism is pusillanimous and myopic. I have long suggested to my liberal friends, especially in Canada (of which this born Yank is a naturalized citizen; the only “bi” thing about me), that the real solution to all this is a referendum (with voting rights for criminals and children and illegal aliens, too…to be completely inclusive) on having Canadian sovereignty dissolved and the territory become the first part of the planet directly under the rule of the United Nations. Then ALL the people of the world, who have been disenfranchised from their role in Canadian life, can begin to unroll the UN Utopia so beloved of the Left. The Charter, the Declaration of Human Rights, Kofi Annan…what’s not to love? Why do they persist in these antiquated nation-states, which are just the last gasp of patriarchal white male imperialist castration anxiety, anyway, eh? For some reason, my liberal friends go blank for a minute and then just giggle and take another glass of wine (from a worker-owned coop using organic techniques learned from the native peoples) and go back to bashing George Bush and the Amerikkans. Well, I tried.

  5. The Canadians can be a very smug people, I think its because the British owned their nation for so long (with all the British television shows on the CBC you would think they still did, oh and don’t forget about the Queen). But at the same time, they are also a very nieve people. I would recomend we invade their nation as well, but they are already mistaken for Americans everywhere they go as it is (which I find funny as hell, because they hate it). My friends and I here in Michigan like to refer to Canada as America Heights.

  6. Dave, EssEm you guys literally defy logic… or else you failed in comprehension lessons at school. A brat and a jerk? Wow, is that you Ridor with a new handle?

    The reality in Canada is that the Nation is moving to the Right after years and years of liberal oppression and policy hegemony. I think that’s great, btw Dave & EssEm. God Bless the Canadians who voted to make that happen. I think Canadians often blame America 1st when they don’t like the initiatives of the US. That’s what Bruce was pointing out by underscoring Matthew Hays’ bemoaning cry.

    Help out those of us still stuck in reality… how does Saddam enter into the issue of Canadians moving to the Right? Not being obtuse; I’m just not following your rant.

    And EssEm, I can understand why some Canadians have had a problem following that whole “Canada gets to become a UN Protectorate” referendum concept. I’m a conservative, for the record, or are you having the same problem as Dave on comprehension?

    Mike, in Ann Arbor, we think of Canada only as the place that keeps Toronto “fresh” for us to visit… kind of like learning about zero as a placeholder in grammar school math –needed, but lacks value of and within itself. Canada is that zero placeholder.

  7. Errr, Canada MIGHT be a nation moving to the right.

    The election of a minority Conservative government, expected to last maybe 18 months, only after its Liberal party completely self-destructed, might portend a shift… or might not.

  8. I definitely am having a comprehension problem, Michigan Matt. I don’t know what you’re saying to me. (I didn’t use emoticons, but trusted that my scenario was silly enough to reveal itself as sarcasm…did you think I was being serious?) Oh, well.

  9. I would be interested in any actual examples of the Advocate being “Anti-American”. They are self-obsessively gay-focused, but thats not the same thing.

    Or is this just more gaypatriot manufactured outrage for the sake of self-aggrandizement? Now thats truly self-obsessed.

    Really GP, one Bill O’Reilly is enough for this planet I think. No need to imitate. Unless you have run out of anything intelligent to say.

  10. Mike, in Ann Arbor, we think of Canada only as the place that keeps Toronto “fresh” for us to visit…

    Perhaps when your Canadian-born, Berkeley-educated governor finishes wrecking Michigan’s economy, she can move back there.

  12. #6 – The “immoral war” that Matthew Hays mentions, alluding to the Iraq war, in the last sentence of his “apology” is what I was responding to. Harper (a Canadian-elected right winger) supported Bush in going to war in Iraq and toppling Saddam. I wasn’t responding to you personally Matt-Michigan. Does it make sense now?

  13. Right now, we’ve got Senator Beached-Whale Stabenow in our sights for limiting the state’s worst to a single term.

    I tend to think of Debbie Stupidcow as more like New York’s Third senator, since all she does is vote in lockstep with Hillary and has yet to author a single piece of her own legislation.

    I think our own rotting whale carcass Barbara Milkulski is worse than Debbie Stupidcow.

  15. VdaK, that’s the first time I’ve heard of StupidCow instead of Stabenow. I grew up on a farm and I think there are some dairy cows that would take offense at the slander. And rightly so.

    And is Babs Mini-Me Mikulski is quite a heffer –and she catches the spotlight faster than Joe Biden or Cindy Sheehan; you’re right.

    Drinks it is when you get a release from Maryland and make it back to Wolverine country.

  19. Stabenow? Mikulski? Rank amateurs. They can’t hold a candle to our (California’s) looney liberal senator, Barbara Boxer.

    For the record, I have a great deal of respect for our thoughtful liberal senator, Diane Fienstein

  20. i am mildly curious: is same sex marriage a huge issue if you are gay. i’ve heard some non-gay people will fight it tooth and nail, even if their lives are not impacted, to make sure it never becomes a reality.

  21. #20 – I don’t care about semantics as much as some other people might. But I do respect the traditional meaning of marriage and those who hold it dear. But I will not support a denial of civil union rights between a coupling of any loving people nor will I support a politician who advocates such policy.

  22. It all depends on who you ask, Ralph.

    If you ask most gay couples, cafeteria-style legal benefits are what would be most useful, and in most cases could be done without even touching marriage law. For instance, inheritance rights could be strengthened to give priority to the legal designate on the will and minimize (or eliminate) the “blood relation claim”.

    If you ask gay activists whose primary interest is antireligious and anti-conservative/Republican hatemongering, it’s like oxygen — required for life, or gays will all drop dead tomorrow.

  23. Bruce, since you mentioned San Francisco in your post, you might be interested in tracking down and posting the full statement made today by a San Francisco commissioner by the name of Sandoval. He said there’s no justification for the United States having a military.

    It’s one thing to question our involvement in Iraq, but no military at all? In today’s dangerous, wacko world? How do these people get elected out there?

    North Dallas Thirty, #22, I agree that cafeteria-style legal rights would best serve the LGBT community and the states wouldn’t be amending their constitutions to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions had gay activists focused on legal rights rather than marriage. Over time, American society might have evolved into acceptance of at least civil unions if not marriage. But I sure hope you aren’t making a blanket accusation that all activists who seek same-sex marriage are anti-religion (or anti-Republicsn, for that matter). I know many Christians who support same-sex marriage (and a lot of them are Republican).

  26. Bruce, since you mentioned San Francisco in your post, you might be interested in tracking down and posting the full statement made today by a San Francisco commissioner by the name of Sandoval. He said there’s no justification for the United States having a military.

    It takes a real wackjob to get Sean and Alan on the same team. But the SF moonbat did it.

  27. Boy, this is almost too easy! Talk about shooting fish in barrel (not you, Cheney, you just keep that gun pointed skywards..).

    So, ‘GayPatriot’, how does it feel being a mouthpiece for a political philosophy that would happily have you stoned to death if it could? No conflict of interest there, then!

  28. Boy, this is almost too easy! Talk about shooting fish in barrel (not you, Cheney, you just keep that gun pointed skywards..).

    So, ‘GayPatriot’, how does it feel being a mouthpiece for a political philosophy that would happily have you stoned to death if it could? No conflict of interest there, then!

    P.S. D’you think Gary Trudeau knows that Chris Muir’s been copying him? Sort of like Doonesbury, but not funny?