A new poll suggests almost a third of Canadians say the United States might attempt "direct action" to take control of Canada, with a fifth of Americans agreeing.
>50% have normalcy bias, where they fully believe the stuff they see on TV only can happen in far away places. Because it never has here in living memory.
I think it gets even higher once you get to the elites who could actually prevent it.
To be fair, most Canadians don’t have a very good understanding of the history in central and South America. Maybe if we did, more Canadians would recognize the parallels with the Alberta separatist movement.
My 86-yo father is in the opening innings of dementia, and even he is successfully reading the writing on the wall. And this, despite a 5th grade education and a lifetime of blue collar work.
He’s currently trying to financially coerce my nephew to move back out of Alberta, as in his mind the agriculture and oil sands of that province will be one of Trump’s first objectives. I really can’t disagree with that analysis.
Hell, his side of the family came within a hair’s breadth of ending up in a Nazi concentration camp, so he’s always had a dim view of authoritarianism. About the only way he’s ever leaned in that direction is when politicians followed through with everything they said they were going to do. Such as Pierre Trudeau – he hated the guy with a passion, but deeply respected how he always did pretty much exactly what he said he was going to do. No lies, no bait-and-switch, just an exceedingly honest (albeit arrogant) politician.
I’m just learning that 2/3 of Canadians can’t read or see.
>50% have normalcy bias, where they fully believe the stuff they see on TV only can happen in far away places. Because it never has here in living memory.
I think it gets even higher once you get to the elites who could actually prevent it.
To be fair, most Canadians don’t have a very good understanding of the history in central and South America. Maybe if we did, more Canadians would recognize the parallels with the Alberta separatist movement.
My 86-yo father is in the opening innings of dementia, and even he is successfully reading the writing on the wall. And this, despite a 5th grade education and a lifetime of blue collar work.
He’s currently trying to financially coerce my nephew to move back out of Alberta, as in his mind the agriculture and oil sands of that province will be one of Trump’s first objectives. I really can’t disagree with that analysis.
Hell, his side of the family came within a hair’s breadth of ending up in a Nazi concentration camp, so he’s always had a dim view of authoritarianism. About the only way he’s ever leaned in that direction is when politicians followed through with everything they said they were going to do. Such as Pierre Trudeau – he hated the guy with a passion, but deeply respected how he always did pretty much exactly what he said he was going to do. No lies, no bait-and-switch, just an exceedingly honest (albeit arrogant) politician.