Why some Canadians are in denial about Donald Trump
Why some Canadians are in denial about Donald Trump
Who are the 10 per cent of Canadians who support Trump and his annexation threats? They are likely people afflicted with cognitive biases that prevent them from accurately assessing risk.
One just needs to look at Germany of the 1930s to understand how it happens. It was a time of great disparity between the rich and the poor the latter, who were desperate for leadership, who might relieve them of their very real hunger. And the nazi party delivered on that promise.
We are in a time of great disparity between the rich and poor. And, for decades, jobs for working folks have been shipped abroad to countries where slave labour is legal. The American dream, or Canadian for that matter, is becoming possible to attain--even for the middle class.
But America's poor are in a desperate situation. In that desperation, they chose poorly. Added to that is the fact that they have a very limited and shame-based social safety net. There are fewer chances to earn an honourable wage.
Add to that, I think a majority of maga faithful are Southern, many of which hang on to a time when enslavement made them rich and proud. They've never let that go. The disappearance of a working wage and Democrats clear disdain of them all contributed to what's happening today.
We could learn from that and not allow people to become so desperate. I don't know what to do about the more dangerous racist and lgbtq+ phobia in places like Alberta. I know that not everyone in Alberta is that way. But there is a significantly greater number of adherents there than perhaps other provinces.
Because of changing technology and this trend for allowing the use of slave-like labour in other countries, we need to look at more socialist policies for our own population. Jean Cretien wanted to introduce a basic universal income, but it wasn't accepted then. I believe we really need to revisit it now.
One point of...not correction, additional commentary?
jobs for working folks have been shipped abroad to countries where slave labour is legal.
Slave labour is still legal in the US. Their prison population might technically be paid, but the pay is so ridiculously miniscule and (as far as I'm aware) they're only allowed to spend it within the system. That said, they're not manufacturing phones or TVs or fly zappers or the millions of other things that are made in countries that are often intentionally kept poor.
In that desperation, they chose poorly. Added to that is the fact that they have a very limited and shame-based social safety net. There are fewer chances to earn an honourable wage.
There's also the decades long effort, of a certain political party, to suppress and distort education. There's a fair amount of the population essentially programmed to vote against their best interests. And that's not even accounting for stupidity like the electoral college and rampant gerrymandering....
We absolutely need to learn from the lessons being shown by the US, I hate to use the slippery slope fallacy, but some slopes really are slippery....
Annexation is not marriage. It’s rape.
Glad somebody finally said it out loud.
Anyone who supports Trump already knows that he's a rapist, and they are ok with rape. That's the world we now live in.
There are always those that assist or even support their own genocide right until the bitter, fatal end. It is a normal human behaviour. As such, the presence of such people in no way implies that their are legitimate reasons for their position.
If fewer than 20% support something, it should be interpreted as essentially zero.
I always found this hard to believe until I heard of people dying of covid who would deny its existence right till the bitter end
I'm not sure we need to waste a lot of time on the lunatics that make up that 10%. You can't get 90% approval for fresh baked cookies, or friendly golden retriever puppies. While it would be nice for there to simply be no traitors within our borders, it's not really a realistic goal.
Instead, let's celebrate that by and large we're all on the same page. Elbows up. One way or the other, old age or a bullet, we die Canadians.
... security threats don’t feel close until your windows start to shake.
So very true.
Was talking to my much-younger brother the other day and his response to me speaking about America's possible incursion was to shrug his shoulders. My bro is highly-educated and doesn't support MAGA at all, but his lackadaisical response kind of blew me away.
It is true Amaerica may not try to invade us, but it is also equally true they may ... and I'd rather be prepared for the worst than be frozen in place by its arrival.
We were on the same copium about Putin right up until 2022. Don't repeat our mistakes, be prepared.
All things that are true are equally true. But the two possibilities are not equally likely.
Some guys genuinely enjoy having their balls crushed, Their are freaks everywhere.
First of all, we like it when it's consensual
wow drive by kink shaming uninvolved strangers for no reason
I am not kink shaming. There's nothing wrong with freaks, I love freaks. Though I can see how that came across.
I was mainly saying there are people that want things completely alien to me, so Canadians wanting trump or to be american seems strange to most of us, but there will be people that want it. I apologize to those who take offense, that wasnt my intention.
At least CBT is consensual, those maga cosplayers want me to crush my own balls then thank them for it. Which isn't cool.
13% of Canadians are batshit insane, so this poll can be safely ignored.
I don't think it's a cognitive bias preventing them from accurately assessing risk for a lot of these people. Based on some I've interacted with, they don't care about how much pain they experience as long as the other side feels it worse.
Others are just pure contrarians who don't put any thought into it beyond "If the radical leftist blue hairs don't want it, it's probably a good thing."
I used to respect this guy but a ways back he started giving me the ick. Way worse now... Curtis Stone . I blocked his channel a ways back, but checked to see if current events changed his tune. It didn't. I am an American and I cannot fathom why anyone would want to join our insanity.