Please sell me on there still being hope for Canada. Our northern neighbors seem to have been persistently voting for various castaway bits of absolute dogshit for a long time now. Not that we can talk, especially now.
Don't despair. Ontario isn't Canada. I mean that Ontario is a weird case in that historically likes to elect Conservative governments provincially and Liberal governments nationally, and vice versa. So don't think that a Ford win means Ontario will support Pollievre.
For context, the Canadian Conservative party generally supports our Supreme Court ruling on abortion and generally opposes the death penalty, which puts them to the left of some Texas Democrats. So whoever wins our election will seem liberal to Americans.
Yes, hopefully the disaster that is happening in the US will be a wake up call to other countries flirting with the far-right. Best case scenario is that it is a wake up call here too, but I don’t have a lot of faith in my fellow Americans.
Casual/low-info Trump voters (i.e. not diehard MAGA) being affected & not supporting the GOP for '26 is paramount.
If we can claw back some sanity in '26 & '28, we might even be able to resume semi-normal relations with allies more as a partner, rather than the big dog.
Well that's one thing about it, I'm not really that skilled and I never went to college. I am a janitor and I have a pretty spotless record as a liquor store clerk, could I get in with that?
I regret to inform you Ontario Canada just re-elected a conservative pile of shit. This part of Canada at least does not learn and refuses to do better
25% of the total population voted for Trump just as an FYI. The majority of us aren't in support of that monster. Sort of like what happened in Germany in 1932.
im glad our strife has at least some benefit of waking up other countries, not as far down the pipeline of fascist takeover. Heres hoping we can still get our country back somehow and undo the damage.
which... sounds more and more improbable by the day
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Please sell me on there still being hope for Canada. Our northern neighbors seem to have been persistently voting for various castaway bits of absolute dogshit for a long time now. Not that we can talk, especially now.
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Casual/low-info Trump voters (i.e. not diehard MAGA) being affected & not supporting the GOP for '26 is paramount.
If we can claw back some sanity in '26 & '28, we might even be able to resume semi-normal relations with allies more as a partner, rather than the big dog.
And they might.
To be honest I'm beginning to entertain a sense of hope - if it wasn't for the nukes.
which... sounds more and more improbable by the day