What if you ran for the Tory leadership and no one cared? What if you dropped out of said leadership and still no one cared? What if you had multi millions of dollars and all that money could not buy you respect? Or Votes? Or anything in the landscape of political realities? Money won’t buy you votes. It won’t buy much as Donald Trump is learning. So what if you have never run a multi-million dollar company, except one? The Government of Canada seems to be a big enough company. See Kevin O’Leary your run for leadership was not based on ability. You lack political ability. It was not based on charm. You have none. It was not based on personality, you only have money. In the end, it was clear that for all your money, you could gather a miserable 12% of not the population. Not 12% of the popular vote but 12% of the Conservative party? Your so called ‘ideas’, failed set aflame the passion of anyone.  Why? Cause for all the money you have earned, you are still a failure. A mean spirited, little man who thinks that his money is all there is to a measure of any man. All that one needs to have to be a politician is also money. All that is needed to call oneself a success is that same old money. I am sensing a theme in your thinking Kevin. Perhaps in a small, very small, corner of the world, money is all that matters. For the rest of the world, who do not have the money you do, we look for more important measures. Things like compassion, charisma, and a sense of justice that contains mercy at its core. We had Stephan Harper for too many years. Canadians already had to take a collective shower to remove that stench. We don’t need it again. Thanks for applying but don’t call us, we’ll call you. As for that parting, catty, “meow” need a saucer of milk Kevin? That nasty comment, you made about Trudeau? His having not running a company? He is doing a very good job according to the polls. How about you?  Oh wait, that is right you failed. You failed to gather support. You failed to win an audience. You even failed to last the whole race. So as a failure, how does that fit into your grand scheme of things in the world of Kevin O’Leary? All you money could not buy you what Trudeau has. Back to reality TV Kevin, no one in Canada is buying what you are trying to peddle.

Part of the way Donald Trump made his way into the White house was the vote by the conservative Christians in the USA. Some 85% voted for him with a turn out around 80%. They did so knowing who he was. His hateful speeches on Muslims, his rapist fantasy towards women, “Grab’em by pussy,” and his lying, deceitful comments about everything. When asked if he had ever asked for God’s forgiveness, Trump said “No.” And yet they still voted for him. This is more than their anti Hilary, anti female, anti liberal and anti everything else. What they have done, is betrayed their very country to a Russian plant, surrenders their Church, their religion, their faith and tossed Jesus, himself, under the bus, all in the name of political expediency. Thus; “By their actions, they shall be known.” Just as George Wills has left the Republican Party over the nomination of Trump, this was no longer his party, so too many youths are dissatisfied with the evangelicals and their voting for Trump. In the end, this is not a day of triumph and glory for the mockery it entails of their so call faith. This is a day of mourning for the loss of faith in their God. Well, he has not lost his faith in you to think for yourselves and become one with God. You had to vote for someone and Hilary was just as bad. Or so Russian Intelligence wanted you to believe with their release of documents to Wiki leaks and their flooding people with fake news. It not like did not have Trump act all his moronic personality on the stump. It is not like he was shown to be a rapist on tape. It was not like a hundred of other things could have tipped off the evangelical crowd that they were voting for the Devil’s choice. No, they were hell bent to put someone up on the cross, so it might as well be their faith and Jesus, since they sold their soul along with their vote as well. May God have mercy on your soul, is all I can say to the former Evangelic Christians because you can be very sure Donald Trump will have none.

In sum, gun violence is a crime of opportunity. If you have a gun, then I need to have a gun, because I don’t trust you. This makes a third and a fourth person buy their own gun. Soon we all have guns and ownership proliferates. Then something tragic happens, a gun license falls into the wrong hand based not on malfeasance of incompetence but on the sheer number of requests. Call it an error, a glitch or noise in the system but someone who should not have guns, gets one. This is where massacres happen. The violence that comes with a gun culture is not based on the people who have or the laws that restrict ownership. It is based simply on the need, want and desire to use them. The immediacy of the gun and the lethal impact it may have is instantly apparent. Wherefore if there had been any time to cool off, any time for reflection, any time to distance the crisis from the gun, there would not be an event to speak. Thus far by assertion, this has been about their being a combative scenario of man versus man. However, the sheer weight of numbers point not to the danger being me against you but man verses himself. Note the sexist reference to men here. Gun ownership is predominately male. Worse, male suicide is dependent upon gun culture. Again the immediacy of it all is the main cause of death, instantly without pause or reflect, bang you are dead. Poor impulse control, coupled with lethal impact and you have the wasted potential of a failed human life cut down by fatal self harm. All of this points to where the United States is today, in their overwhelming gun violence and maelstrom of avoidable death if only there had been enough time to thing before pulling the trigger. Worse is the two fold, double barrel political situation. Gun owners are single issue voters. They will drop all considerations and vote only based on the issue of guns and gun ownership. The second barrel is the lobbyists who know this and try to exploit this with every turn. They actually don’t care about human life, or at least their actions show they do not. Rather, they simple try to push every chance they get, gun ownership on to the people. Remember the beginning of the post. If you have a gun, then I have to because I don’t trust you alone with one. This the cycle renews as the wheel turns. The last consideration rests on the fearful reputation of the gun lobby, as they have targeted many and supported many others, but with a few notable exceptions, they fail to unseat anyone. They just boost and crow about the few they have as a warning for others. The hard core gun lobby is a small subset of the electoral vote. There are many more issues. However elections are numbers games, and starting off at 40 % of the vote going to the other side, you need to capture as much of the rest of that vote as you can to be elected or re-elected.