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Psychology professor Jordan Peterson said that liberals excelled in openness and conservatives excelled in conscientiousness while speaking with Rob Shimshock on The Shimshock Show.

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The University of Toronto professor argued that liberals display the personality trait of openness, which he linked to an affinity for abstraction and aesthetics. Meanwhile, he posited that conservatives demonstrate conscientiousness, which makes them good at administrating but not creating.

Alot of what determines your political orientation is biological temperament, said Peterson, outlining liberal openness and conservative conscientiousness. Each of those different temperamental types needs the other type so economically speaking, for example, we need liberals to start businesses, and we need conservatives to run them.

The whole point of a democracy is to continue the dialogue between people of different temperamental types so that we dont move so far to the right that everything becomes encapsulated in stone and doesnt move, or so far to the left that everything dissolves in [a] kind of mealy-mouthed chaos, said the professor. The only way that you can navigate between those two shoals is through discussion, which is why free speech is such an important value.

Peterson also discussed the political trajectory of Canada under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, arguing that the political spectrum in the country is shifted to the left, relative to that of the U.S.(RELATED: Dr. Jordan Peterson Talks New Website To Detect Neo-Marxist Courses)

The Liberal party in Canada has tilted very strongly to the left, which isnt what the electorate expected because they wouldve voted for the NDP the socialist party if they wanted the left-leaning party, said Peterson. So they got a wolf in sheeps clothing.

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Three people are dead and at least 34 injured after Unite the Right brought frenetic scenes and deadly violence to Charlottesville, Virginia. An estimated 500 white supremacists joined the rally, which supposedly was organized to protest the removal of Confederate monuments across Southern states. The rhetoric employed by the organizers clearly indicates that the gathering had other ambitions as well.

Its about white genocide. Its about the replacement of our people, culturally and ethnically, Jason Kessler told his followers on Periscope before the rally. Speaking at Unite the Right, David Duke stated: We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. Thats what we believed in, thats why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said hes going to take our country back, and thats what we gotta do.

At the rally itself, racist chants and sieg heils abounded. By most reports, the most popular incantation was blood and soil (from the German blut und boden). Originating in late 19th century Germany as an evocation of ultranationalist sentiment, it became incorporated into Nazi propaganda, where it was utilized to glorify pure German countryfolk who had a unique kinship with the land.

At the Friday evening tiki torch-bearing congregation at the Lee monument, the theme was the Richard Spencer shibboleth we will not be replaced.

No, the poison is not very hard to put together. Unite the Right was the official pitch of American fascists of all shades to become part of mainstream politics. It was the affirmation of the American far-right that they are no longer willing to be small fry content with furtive cross burnings and Nazi salutes. They want to be recognized as a national movement. They want political legitimacy.

Neither is it any coincidence that this moment has come during the presidency of Donald Trump. Even though they gained momentum by riding the tide of racist backlash during the tenure of Americas first black President, it was not until Trump entered the White House that they dared to stake their claim. Not only was Donald Trumps campaign rife with thinly veiled white nationalist rhetoric, his cabinet contains at least two men who belong firmly in the far right. Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka are two of the primary architects of the alt-right narrative since their days together at the Breitbart News Network.

It is not just that white supremacists see in the Trump administrations xenophobia and ultranationalism a coded affirmation of their fascist dreams. The fact is that Breitbart, Trump and many Republicans have themselves inspired new white supremacy among Americans. Their demonization of minorities, their denial of systemic racism and their blaming of immigrants and liberals for the misery of the working class amount to nothing less than soft-core white supremacy.

Today is a moment of reckoning for America. Fascism has reared its vile head, and prejudices that many had thought were either extinct or dormant are being shouted with pride and gusto. Right-wing militancy and violence continue to be on the rise. There is an administration in charge that shows zero motivation to frankly condemn or sever itself cleanly from white supremacy. Either because that would interfere with its raison dtre of liberal-hating or perhaps because it contains sympathizers with this ideology.

Most poignantly, though, this is a moment of reckoning for that cohort of liberals who choose to sit on the moral fence, looking down their noses at both left and right. That navel-gazing legion that prides itself for defending the free speech rights of neo-Nazis and equates the regressive left with the alt-right. That hypocritical, cowardly, egocentric nonsense will no longer stand.

Enough of the tripe about the left being more antisemitic than the right, of the sniveling, intellectually dishonest refrains of the lefts soft bigotry of low expectations. It is high time that it was clearly and loudly pointed out that there is no longer any daylight between the rhetoric of the alt-right and left-hating liberals. From regressive left to hard left and from SJW to PC police, this confusion of tongues with the alt-right is a testament to the neurosis of freeze peach liberals.

The fact is, economic ideology and the scandalous Democratic primaries have already created much distance between centrist liberals and the left. The fact is that whether it is fighting immigration bans, police brutality or fascism, the left has shown it is able and willing. It is fence-sitting liberals that must prove their moral integrity and distinguish themselves from the right.

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OTTAWA The federal government has spent a lot of time in the U.S. of late, making Canada's case in advance of this week's long-awaited NAFTA talks. Back home, though, industry groups have been working hard to make sure they deliver the right message.

Andrea van Vugt, the vice-president of policy for North America at the Business Council of Canada, said her organization was bracing for a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement even beforeDonald Trump's election win.

"It was clear that NAFTA was going to become a discussion, regardless of who was elected, given the role that it played in the election," van Vugt said.

John Manley, a former Liberal cabinet minister who is president and CEO ofthe Business Council of Canada, is registered to lobby the federal government on any changes to the 23-year-old trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

The monthly communication reports filed to the federal lobbying commissioner do not single out NAFTA, but they do show Manleyhas had six meetingsin the last six months alone where international trade has been one of the subjects, including in April with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The Business Council of Canada is not alone in these efforts.

The Canadian Press found 45 activeentriesin the federal lobbyist registry, representing 24 organizations who have signed up to make their case to the Liberal government or hired lobbyists to do it for them ahead of the first round of talks, which get underway Wednesdayin Washington, D.C.

There were also 1,458 active registrations where the subjects included international trade. Anumber of those included organizations, such as the Dairy Farmers of Canada, that didn't specifically mention NAFTA, but whose priorities are clearly linked to the trade talks.

Any activity that followed the release of the U.S. government's summary of objectives last month would not be reflected in the registry; the reports for any meetings that took place in July are not due to be filed until next week.

They represent a wide range of interests, from agricultural producers and auto manufacturers to pharmaceutical companies and unions.

"Canadian business is really well engaged with the government and the government's doing a really good job at staying close to industry to make sure that they know what's on our agenda for the talks," said van Vugt.

The Liberals are aiming for a unified message, but that does not mean the groups lobbying them are all on the same page.

Jerry Dias, the national president of Unifor, Canada's largest labour union, has a vastly different perspective than those Canadian business intereststhat want to see the trade deal improved, but not necessarily overhauled.

"You have no idea how much I am looking forward to participating in fixing this colossal disaster," said Dias, whose union is calling for higher wage and labour standards, especially in Mexico.

The International Cheese Council of Canada, meanwhile,is setting its sights on the often-controversial supply management system, which protects the domestic dairy industry by placing sky-high tariffs on imports.

"We want to see more cheese coming into Canada and we want the right to import that cheese," said their lobbyist, James McIlroy.

The Canadian Sugar Institute, meanwhile, wants the new NAFTA to ease some American protectionist measures, such as quotarestrictions on sugar and some sugar-containing products,in addition to preserving what access they do have to the U.S. market.

"The problem for us is that trade for Mexico was liberalized, but trade for Canada was not," said Sandra Marsden, president of the institute.

The Liberal government has been holding consultations, but Carl Rodrigues, CEO of Soti Inc., a technology firm based in Mississauga, Ont., registered to lobby the government on NAFTA, said he wishes there was more of a back-and-forth conversation.

"There is going to be a bunch of negotiators at the table for the Canadian government and they are going to be determining and guiding the policies that, in the end, would affect us," he said.

"There is kind of a void."

And there are others, like the Chicken Farmers of Canada, who registered to lobby on NAFTA talks, but have so far not felt the need to do so, even though the poultry sector here is also under supply management.

Lisa Bishop-Spencer, a spokeswoman for the association, said they checked with theirAmerican partners and found they were not agitating for change.

"Let's just not mess with a good thing," she said.

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Things could go well for the Democrats in next year's midterm elections if they don't Bern out.

President Trump is woefully unpopular, feuding with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans. The GOP can't manage to repeal Obamacare or do much of anything. Voters say they'd like Democrats to run Congress.

But here come the Bernie Bros and sisters to the Republicans' rescue: They're sowing division in the Democratic Party and attempting to enact a purge of the ideologically impure just the sort of thing that made the Republican Party the ungovernable mess it is today.

Bernie Sanders's advisers are promoting a "litmus test" under which Democrats who don't swear to implement single-payer health care would be booted from the party in primaries. Sanders pollster Ben Tulchin penned an op-ed with a colleague under the headline "Universal health care is the new litmus test for Democrats." Nina Turner, head of the Sanders group Our Revolution, told Politico this last week that "there's something wrong with" Democrats who won't "unequivocally" embrace "Medicare-for-all."

That notion not just taking a stand but excommunicating all who disagree is what Republicans have done to themselves with guns and taxes, and it would seriously diminish Democrats' hopes of retaking the House next year.

At the same time, Our Revolution has stepped up its attack on the Democratic Party. Turner this week sent an email to supporters complaining that she and others attempted to deliver a petition to Democratic National Committee headquarters but "were shut out." In a follow-up interview with BuzzFeed, Turner expressed particular outrage that the DNC offered her ... donuts. "They tried to seduce us with donuts," she said, calling the gesture "pompous" and "arrogant" and "insulting."

It's not just about breakfast confections. The Bernie crowd has begun accusing freshman Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), a rising Democratic star, of being beholden to corporate money. Also in California, Kimberly Ellis, who ran for state Democratic chairman with the support of Sanders and lost in a close race to a former Hillary Clinton delegate, is refusing to concede and threatening to sue. Ellis told the New York Times that the "Democratic Party is in many ways right now where the Republican Party was when the tea party took over."

And that's a good thing? Republican fratricide, instigated by tea-party purity police, made Trump possible and left the GOP unable to govern. This is what Sanders' people would emulate.

Fortunately, Sanders seems to have lost clout. Candidates backed by Our Revolution have lost 31 races in 2017 and won 16, and the wins include "Portland Community College Director, Zone 5" and "South Fulton (Ga.) City Council 6."

Candidates endorsed by Sanders have struggled in high-profile races. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) lost the DNC chairman race (he was appointed deputy chairman). Sanders-backed Tom Perriello lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia, and a Sanders campaign official was blown out in a California congressional primary. Neither did the Sanders magic get the job done for Democrats in special congressional elections in Kansas, Georgia or Montana, and his candidate lost the Omaha mayoral race.

Yet the attempt by the Sanders movement to impose a health-care litmus test on Democratic candidates shows their destructive potential within the party. Support for single-payer health coverage has been growing, and it would become a real possibility if Republicans sabotage Obamacare but don't help the tens of millions who would lose insurance.

But to force Democrats to take some kind of single-payer purity oath would set back the cause. Democrats need to pick up 24 seats to take control of the House, yet there are only 23 Republicans in districts won by Clinton and only eight of those were won by President Barack Obama in 2012. There are a dozen Democrats in districts Trump won. In such swing districts, it would be suicidal to pledge support for something Republicans will brand as socialism.

A Pew Research Center poll in June found that while a majority of Democrats (52 percent) favor single-payer health care, only 33 percent of the public does overall. A Kaiser Health Tracking poll in June had better results: 53 percent of the public favored single-payer coverage. But Kaiser found that opinions were "malleable."

If recent trends continue, and particularly if Republicans undermine Obamacare without an adequate replacement, the time for single-payer will come, and soon. But the litmus test distracts Democrats from protecting Obamacare, diminishes their chances of retaking the House and chops up the party over something that has zero chance of becoming law under Trump.

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A new ad from President Donald Trump's campaign that decries Democrats, the media and career politicians as his "opponents" and "enemies" and some are criticizing it for what they say is tone-deaf timing.

The targeted ad ran just a day after the president called for unity following what he said was violence and bigotry "on many sides" when a deadly white supremacist rally broke out in Charlottesville, Va. , over the removal of a Confederate monument.

The ad accuses Democrats and the media of "standing in the way" of Trump's policies, which are portrayed as widely supported Americans. But while Trump has maintained much of his base support, he has also had consistently low approval rating throughout his presidency. Last week, his approval rating hit 37%, according to Gallup.

The ad specifically points to achievements like job creation, military power and a record-high Dow industrial average.

However, some people on social media have questioned the timing of such an ad that uses stronger language against Democrats and the media than Trump used against white supremacists and neo-Nazis on Saturday.

As white supremacists carried flags with swastikas and waved Confederate flags in Charlottesville on Saturday, a man drove a car directly into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring at least 19 others. Additionally, a Virginia State Police helicopter crashed while assisting law enforcement efforts during the rally, killing two troopers.

While many Republican and Democratic politicians called the violence incited by the white supremacists domestic terrorism and denounced Nazism, Trump spoke out against what he saw as "this display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides." Politicians on both sides of the aisle urged Trump to make a more direct statement targeting white supremacy and Nazism.

As presidents typically fill the role of uplifting a nation with unifying remarks after tragedy strikes, Trump's comments on the violent rally were especially scrutinized since some of the white supremacists who attended wore red "Make America Great Again" hats and claimed to be promoting Trump's agenda.

In light of the criticism, the White House released an additional statement Sunday. "The President said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white Supremacists, KKK, neo-nazi and all extremist groups," a White House spokesperson said. "He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together."

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