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  This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 446. Ron Filipkowski Aug 23 … We are officially in a trade war with Canada, historically our closest ally and key trading partner, as Trump seems determined to crash the Republican clown car into a ditch before the midterms. … Politico: “US Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer entered a meeting with Canadian officials Friday afternoon with a frown. For more than a week, Greer had been in wall-to-wall negotiations with Canada’s top trade officials, and the two sides were tantalizingly close to striking a deal that would break through more than a year of icy diplomatic and economic relations. The two had agreed on the overarching framework. Industry groups and stakeholders had been briefed. A deal seemed imminent.” … “The negotiations also exposed friction between Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ’ s respective public policy spheres. While the WH has been adamant officials are in lockstep, two people familiar with the talks said Lutnick felt the ...

To blame it on education goes back decades and decades. Do we educate racism out of children? Gullibility? Selfishness? Bigotry. Misogyny? Why do we constantly blame education, ie the teachers, for society's failures? Blame the parents or the voters themselves for their hatreds, their selfishness, their gullibility. I live in an affluent, well educated community in liberal Massachusetts that votes 60% republican. Mass. has always been one of the leaders in quality public education, many time the best in the country. I know college educated who support trump: doctors, teachers, nurses. What is the excuse for these people? When will we blame them, make them responsible for their vote? We are all adults. The trumpers support these policies by choice. They choose to remain willfully ignorant, they choose to turn a blind eye to the atrocities, the corruption, the lies, the violence. They could educate themselves as easily as the rest of us do by reading Meidas, The New Republic, The Gua...