Thursday, December 22, 2016
CEC - Alex Fontana - Trudeaumania: Top Five Reasons Why Justin Trudeau Is an Intolerable POS - "Trump has come to represent the contemporary Zeitgeist, Trudeau has come to represent history repeating itself merely as farce."
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Marx's often quoted passage about historical repetitions is worth playing with in the case of the two Trudeaus, father Pierre Elliot and son Justin, as hereditary Prime Ministers of Canada. The term 'Trudeaumania' was first coined in 1968 to describe the wild popularity of the father, whose countercultural leanings induced a Lisztomania-like effect on the Canadian public.
Whether it was pirouetting behind the queen, openly flirting with Marxism, legalizing homosexuality or implementing the War Measures Act and taunting journalists with the infamous "just watch me" line, there was an intellectual charisma to the man that the son lacks in spades.
This second generational round of 'Trudeaumania' may well be reminiscent of Marx's repetitive historical reversal, and the term may come to define Justin's 'out-of-season' liberalism in a clinical way — 'Trudeaumania' as a descriptive for Justin's pathological psychological state rather than public enthrallment, which is wearing increasingly thin. ...
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/12/trudeaumania-why-justin-trudeau-is-fake-and-a-traitor.html