8 February 2022 – In this time of shameful tumult, it strikes me that the rules we teach a tantrum-throwing toddler are also pretty well the basic rules of democracy.
- Use your words.
- Use your indoor voice.
- Listen as well as speak.
- Respect others.
- Accept that you don’t always get what you want.
WALKING WOMAN 
binghamtoronto
/ 8 February 2022Pretty much says it all
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Blane Hogue
/ 8 February 2022Well said Penny! I have been feeling like a grumpy old guy ( well, I am an old guy!) for saying that our politicians need a kindergarten teacher to go to Parliament House or provincial Legislatures and teach them to behave like civilized humans!
icelandpenny
/ 12 February 2022I was not thinking primarily of the politicians, but of the lawless mob holding downtown Ottawa hostage
Virginia Thomas
/ 8 February 2022Well said Penny.
ljscovill
/ 8 February 2022Absolutely perfect, Penny!!
ALAN WILLIAMS
/ 8 February 2022Here, here!
susan Corbin
/ 8 February 2022Perfect! xo
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 8 February 2022Yes, definitely a very timely post, especially for that selfish mob in Ottawa.
icelandpenny
/ 12 February 2022The ones I had in mind! Plus their thug supporters nation-wide
jeffreymillerca
/ 22 February 2022Yes. This is what happens when you don’t distinguish between freedom and licence and people childishly fail to see that their self-interest is inextricably woven with the community interest. (Turn on the radio or TV and you persistently hear and see the incoherent self-assertion we witnessed in Ottawa and Windsor and Alberta. Identity politics with no nuance.) The sense of a commonwealth has all but disappeared amid the idea of self-actualization, a product of the nineteen-sixties that, with social media, has metastasized. What in law we used to call the reasonable person has nothing much to draw on any more. The social contract is broken. This foments Trumpers, who themselves mirror all the grievance mongering. No wonder their leader was floated around Britain as a giant baby.
icelandpenny
/ 22 February 2022alas…