A Bit of Handbagging
September 4th, 2008
| Tags: Sarah Palin
It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher
So, if I’m reading you correctly, I’m not the only one who looks at a certain Governor from a certain northern US state next door to Yukon and British Columbia and sees Maggie Thatcher II.
Yup…
Doesn’t bode too well for this country, I’m afraid. (The Thatcher quote, I mean.)
England still has lots of small towns and hamlets in addition to the big cities like London and Manchester. The US, of course, has thousands and thousands of them, in every state. But Canada?
Fully two thirds of our population live in cities of 100,000 or more. Roughly half of that live in four large metro areas (Greater Toronto, Montreal, Greater Vancouver, and the Calgary-Edmonton axis).
Small towns, and the mentalities and attitudes they engender, are getting to be pretty thin on the ground. Small wonder that the policies and philosophies that won elections for Thatcher and Reagan don’t do so well here.
Let’s hope they do better down south. Because I too like the idea of seeing “The Iron Lady Version 2.0”.