North American Right and left daftness

It would figure that in an age when the American President says thing that are shockingly rude and abrasive, we would have a Canadian Prime Minister whose is freakishly on the opposite side of the coin in a matter/anti matter manner.  Consider this:

During a town hall meeting on Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requested a woman say "peoplekind" instead of "mankind," as part of a larger effort by the Canadian government to make language inclusivity a priority. On Thursday, the Canadian senate passed a bill making the country's national anthem gender neutral. While Trudeau's intent with his comments was to promote inclusivity, he was widely mocked by critics for his remarks.

As well he should have been. What a wuss.

Trudeau is taking a lot of heat, to include Canadian heat, for saying such a goofball, did anyone see where he parked his unicorn, remark.

Not that it's been the first time.  The Toronto Sun, for example, noted following this, regarding Trudeau's various remarks:

Some are just goofy, like his claim that we need to “rethink concepts as basic as space and time.” Others offer a window into his political philosophy, like his admiration that China’s “basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest.’”

Then there are gaffes that have serious public policy consequences, such as his claim “the budget will balance itself” which he proved wrong all by himself.

Regarding peoplekind the Sun stated:

If this is the sort of progressivism he’s trying to insert into the NAFTA text, no wonder President Trump’s thinking of tearing it all up.

Canadian politics can be more than a little difficult to follow from afar.  Canadians take an intense interest in American politics, and generally many aren't too keen on Trump. But then neither are many Americans. The difference is that you can usually discern why Americans are unhappy with a leader, but telling what's upsetting Canadians is pretty difficult  Many Canadians took a huge dislike to Steven Harper, but I have to see an explanation of what exactly it was that upset them.  I'm not saying there wasn't a reason, I'm just clueless what it was.  And for the same reason it's difficult to tell what the attraction of Trudeau was or is.

But then that's how North American politics have been recently.  It's not that there aren't really good options out there.  We can only hope that gravitas takes over everywhere sooner or later.

What a person is forced to wonder, however, is that if the respective leaders of the two countries reflect exaggerated views of their nations, or at least certain sectors of their nations.  American discourse has truly become more rude in the age of the Internet and views that were once expressed only privately if at all now seem to surface all the time.  President Trump is a mirror back on that.

Just as Justin Trudeau is a mirror back on a self imposed exaggerated form of liberalism that Canadians have taken on since the 1960s, and now seem to feel that they have to be the standard bearer for.  Canada was at one time aggressively English and rural, but now its aggressively passive and hyper urban.  It's taken a national habit of politeness to the extreme of being a national virtue.  So we have, on one hand, a nation that has an excessively brash in your face leader and another that worries about vapid manners of speech.

Is there an adult somewhere in the middle?

Are there any adults even in the room?  Surely there are conservative and liberal leaders who can still muster public attention who are serious men and women (or to keep Justin from fainting, people), aren't there?

But who knows, maybe that day has passed. 

Can Oprah be far behind?