It seems a lot of American can't conceive why Canadians are not so eager to join the union.
I'll give you a few reasons:
- We love our country, just you like you love yours. Things can always be better, but this will always be our home and native land.
- The climate sucks, but we're used to it, and it can be quite beautiful at times. We have warm homes with warm people, winter sports, and lots of sunshine.
- None of my kids have had to do active shooter drills, unlike their cousins across the border. Our cities are the safest big cities in North America.
- There is no role for religion in politics. No one cares.
- We never have to worry about health insurance. Granted the system can be improved, but there are no co-pays, no monthly contributions, few worries.
- There's no corporate donations in politics, it was banned 20 years ago. Billionaires can't own the political system.
- The media (what's left of it) is not allowed to broadcast false or misleading news.
- There's no corrupt geriatric supreme court that can ruin your life. Here judges have mandatory retirement, and few Canadians can name even one of them.
- Abortion has been permitted for 35 years and is a non-issue politically
- There's no senate or electoral college that can keep unpopular parties in power.
- Higher education is good, cheap and accessible. Few are crushed by student debt like in America.
There's a million small things too, but overall, this will never stop being the most beautiful place in the world to me:
Seniors voted to gut Social Security.
Men voted for their wives and daughters to die from miscarriages.
Immigrants voted for deportation raids.
Poor people voted for tax cuts for billionaires.
Women voted to have fewer rights than men.
Police voted for a convicted felon.
If we have an election in 2028, Pete Buttigieg is the only person I'll trust to clean up whatever mess Trump leaves us. This is the only thing giving me hope right now.
So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.
And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.
When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.
What then?
Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?
You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.
You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.
You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.
You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.
You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.
You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.
You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.
You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.
You just made women less safe and less free.
You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.
You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!
You just ushered in Fascism.
Because your cereal costs more.
Congratulations.
1920: Women are allowed to vote.
1963: Women get equal pay... (really?)
1965: Black women are allowed to vote.
1969: Women can initiate a divorce.
1972: Women have access to birth control.
1973: Women can be a juror in all 50 states.
1974: Women can open a bank account.
1974: Women can get a credit card.
1974: Women can get a mortgage.
1978: Women can't be fired for being pregnant.
1980: Sexual harassment at work is legally recognized.
1988: Women could get a business loan without a male co-signer.
1994: Women can be legally protected against domestic abuse.
2024: Kamala is elected President of the United States.
End the misogyny.
End the patriarchy.
Vote Kamala!!! 🇺🇸
Michigan voter: I voted for Kamala Harris. I have three daughters. Women's rights is pretty important to them. I'm sorry, I'm getting a little emotional. Their bodies, their choice. I want them to grow up in a world that's welcoming to everybody
Wow. The NYT devotes three full pages today to quotes from prominent Republicans saying what a horrible person Trump is and how unfit he is to be president again