"There’s another book out about how dumb America is getting."
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Shouldn't your latest piece starting with that sentence leave you open to mockery by your peers? The assumption being that you and your peers are professional journalists. 
All 300 million of us?  Are all Canadians marching in unison toward brilliance or is there a curve as one would expect?

"Here in Washington, I keep waiting for some incensed politician to stand up, to take a stand against all of the above, to risk populist wrath, to holler, “What are we doing?"

Then again, how novel it would be to go to Ottawa instead of Washington, review the closed door fundraisers with ultra-wealthy Chinese, the 'scolding' of the Canadian media by Chinese leaders, declaring yourself no longer dependent on the U.S. without providing the means, and ignoring your own intelligence community and those of the U.S. and selling hi-tech used by NATO and the U.S.  to the Chinese.
Instead you write a book review about dumb Americans.

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