I think we also both know that there is another side to this. But what is significant about your post, to me, is that the other side can be simply defended by going to innumerable, well-financed, conservative foundations established during the Reagan and Bush years and passing on news in an interpreted form that fits the conservative ideology.

The pendulum has recently been swinging back a little, in my opinion, and Canadians are watching anxiously, as a quite modest economic and military power, to see what next will happen. I do not think much of life value will emerge unless there is renewed dedication to the following three values simultaneously in increasing numbers of conversations and interactions:

Honesty: The discipline/capacity of avoiding either inaccuracy or deception and of being reciprocally open about intentions

Verbal Integrity: The discipline/capacity of being true to one’s word, or promptly honourable in warning of exceptions imposed by unforeseen circumstances

Empathy: The discipline/capacity of being actively present to hear the needs, wants and aims of others in one’s “team”, and of anticipating accurately the sensitivities likely to be excited by one’s instinctive inclinations to share or hide potentially painful or frightening possibilities with or from others.