Vancouver, B.C.
Some of the best comments about the national mood in America so far have come from our northern neighbors in Canada. Perhaps that’s because a little distance can give you a certain perspective on things. As an example, Drew, from beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, writes:
“Attitudes and sentiments didn’t just ‘happen.’ They’ve been around all this time, and the ‘social progress’ of the past half-century has, in fact, had little or no effect on the hearts of people [example: racism]. People change their behavior through their hearts, not through legislation, and I believe we’re seeing a whole lot of people who have been forced into silence for fear of being called any number of names, from ‘NIMBY’ to ‘uneducated’ to ‘deplorable.’”
And then Drew reminds us, “We have to remember that the ‘deplorables’ are worthy of Grace, too.”
John Fischer The Catch 