Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.
Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.
As a Canadian I feel bad for this. A lot of Americans in these tourist towns love Canadians and didn’t even vote for Trump!
The only thing that will change the US trajectory towards fascism is an economic crisis. A major one.
Sadly there will be collateral damage. I’m sorry for them.
You say that, but in Nazi Germany (whose playbook we’re following) economic crisis was part of the rise of fascism. Not its fall.
That’s true.
Surely in this case however a direct line could be drawn between fascist policies and the coming recession.
If you want to make an omelette, you might have to fuck a chicken.
Wait…
Allegedly.
We need the pain. Just like you needed the pain from Trump to oust your far right, We need everybody, even the people in the deep blue states to say absolutely not to the entire right agenda, or shit here is never going to get better
Thats… not what the dems are doing. At all.
We didn’t oust our far right. They got more votes than they’ve had in decades. They just got them in the wrong places.
We also lost our left wing party whose votes got gobbled up by the centre-left Liberals.
Idk anything about Canada’s voting. I’m assuming all the right wing votes were placed on places with lower representation?
No they were all over the place. They won a lot of seats but Carney’s Liberals won more.
In Canada I think there are just more left wing voters than right wing. Normally when the Conservatives win it’s because the left wing gets split among multiple left wing parties. This time, people abandoned those other left wing parties and jumped to the Liberals.
Almost the entirety of the border (minus Detroit and Buffalo) is Trump country.
How much of that is tourist country?
As an American, I can hardly blame the Canadians. Who would want to cross the border when doing so might get you tossed into a dark hole in El Salvador for no reason whatsoever?
It absolutely does suck for the Americans who rely on those tourist dollars, though, as well as the Canadians who lose a destination they love. I really hope we can restore sanity sooner rather than later, but I fear it would take an act of God to do so.
Not really, just an act of humanity.
Same. I can absolutely understand their anger.
We have a psychopath openly expressing a willingness to take something by force. This is the definition of terrorism.