Canada

A big part of it was Lil PP was drawing the comparisons himself - he's been drawing from Trump's populist playbook since the Free Dumb Convoy. Even now, he still has his "Canada First" signs up, a nod to MAGA and the populism that fucked things up for our closest ally and once greatest friend.

Easy to not grow up when you're a neppo baby.

That’s not very “increasing shareholder value” of you.

I would like to sit naked in a bog, eating leaves, and sleep in a tree dreaming of nothing at all.

I mean, go and do that now then.

If we didn't have however many billions it is now of people, I'd be all about returning to that hunter gatherer life. Would it be really fucking hard? For sure. Would people die of dumb stuff? Ok maybe we keep like, antibiotics. But I bet cavemen never sat around like, "why am I even continuing to exist in this neverending capitalist nightmare?" They probably didn't wake up at 3 am every night for weeks because the dread overcame their exhaustion. I will join you in the bog.

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There are no simple solutions to complicated problems. If we tear down the state with violence and no plan to permanently replace it with something better, then we're just going to increase the gap between the upper class and the lower class.

Assistant TO the manager Trump but that gives him too much credit

Seriously Bernie Sanders could sit down and have positive dialogue with our conservatives. Americans have no idea how much the Overton Window has been at work there.

And also the large reason the Cons were polling so far in the lead is because of Trudeau fatigue.

Now that he's gone things have balanced out again.

Yes and no. It would be better to say that about half of our Conservatives sit slightly to the right of the Dems. The other half - the former Reform party of which Pollievre is one - are an actively regressive, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic party who want to destroy abortion access, collapse our education system and sell off our healthcare, and would get along very well with the GOP (hence why Trump spoke so favourably of Pollievre and why Pollievre refuses to ever say anything bad about Trump).

And here's the thing; the half of our Conservatives who aren't openly fascist have no problem allying with the half who are. Which just makes them fascists too. We shouldn't kid ourselves about this. Canadian Conservatives want to do everything the GOP is doing, they're just not there yet.

The big difference between Canada and the US, isn't in the quality of our Conservatives, its in the fact that our Conservatives have to mask their more horrific tendencies to get the average person to vote for them.

To be fair, that's because the US Democrats would be right wing nearly everywhere else on the world. There has been a shit ton of propaganda infrastructure built over the last 60+ years to shift the US spectrum so dramatically to the point a third of the country supports overt fascism while claiming it's the opposite.

I don't think PP is very moderate. But who knows. All he does is pal around with fascist lowlifes, make lame attack ads and parrot MAGA bigotry. He doesn't actually propose anything positive.

Indeed. The question of political trends would be kind of hard to focus on through the constant headlines about bombings and assassinations.

No, Canada would become a US territory. They can't be stupid enough to make Canada a represented state.

Because referring to Canada as the ‘51st State’ is mostly meant to be simply symbolic of Trump’s imperialist goals.

Obligatory it's bullshit, will never happen, et cetera preface...

The problem with splitting it into multiple states is that each new state would get 2 senators. Our house is capped, the amount of reps we have is how many have, which means they can fuck around with the numbers a bit and potentially take democratic seats away to give to state of Canada, but with the Senate, if it were to split it into 10 new states, we'd have to add 20 additional senators, all of whom would be Democrats (or, at least, most of them). Some of the Canadian parties might last for a bit, but eventually the two party would take over, and they'd all become Democrats, and it would fuck the Republicans. Better to keep it as a single state, do some fuckery on who loses seats to add Canadian reps to the house, and only add 2 senators. Much easier to buy 2 senators than 20.

But honestly, the smartest route would be to make Canada a territory. No senators, no reps, no voting for president. But still citizens. Give it the Puerto Rico treatment.

Trump supporters don't know what a province or territory is. They have probably heard of states even if they can't name many. Making Canada one state minimises the true size and strength of Canada to them. It only makes sense when you consider the audience.