Ironically this is what has been exasperating me about Canada lately (as someone from US), unlike the US and Europe, Canada saw Trump get elected and then actually did wake the fuck up and they turned around and elected Carney instead of Polievre.... but now it doesn't really feel like maybe much of Canada understands that they just pulled the handbrake and powerslided narrowly out of a catastrophe... and Carney isn't in any sense an alternative or a solution, but rather a plug shoved into the dam.

I say the above statements with the caveat that I know that many Canadians know this, I just see Carney getting contextualized as if he really was what Canada needed or wanted in the moment, he was the best alternative! Remember that!!!! Don't let the media turn him into a hero if he doesn't actually back up his bold speeches with bold progressive actions.

The really dangerous thing in my opinion here is when centrist status quo managers begin to lose a belief that if they screw over the average person enough they will turn on not just the people shittier than them (conservatives spouting violent and racist rhetoric), but them too. This is the opening all extremist, rightwing and violent movements exploit.

Ultimately this is a story as old as time right? The wealthy elite jam up systematic change and squeeze the structures that sustain them until one awful day a breaking point is reached and people decide they want everything to burn damn it all, at which point the wealthy elite point at the coming wall of fire and say incredulously "Why!!? This burns down the homes of the poor people and good elites too!!? That is irrational!" right before they are swallowed in the firestorm.

The kinds of people like Carney and Biden sleepwalked us up to this brink of collapse in fascism, which doesn't make them worse than fascists, it just makes them the necessary precursor to fascism, like how you have to dig a hole to plant a tree...

There are only two choices, embrace bold, hopeful policies and visions that address the suffering in people that causes that desire to burn everything down, or wait until your society becomes so brittle and weak that it shatters into violence and chaos. There is no "Third Way".