What is your goal? What is it you think your words are going to accomplish? Canada isn't the problem here, you are. Go talk to other Americans with this sentiment because they are the ones that need to hear this emotion from you.

Buddy, USA is already in full Idiocracy mode. Everyone has been watching it happen with horror for decades. Now it's gotten so bad it's affecting your country's relationships with other countries. Stop posting apologies and learn how to do political activism to vote out the current fascists before it's too late.

Also sort of a question, I know Canada is bilingual and there is some portion of the country that primarily or solely speaks French. Thus it seemed disrespectful and presumptive/arrogant to address the country speaking only in English. But I am curious what the proper etiquette is for such things. Do all Canadian websites have an English/French toggle button?

Large commercial and government websites do, and constitutionally, government service and education has to be available in either. Packages in stores also have a French and English side, and in Quebec, there's additional rules and fines that require French to be first or more prominent on everything. Sadly, a lot of anglos have shitty/nonexistent French, though. Especially in western Canada.

Pretty much all Quebecers speak English, and English is also the international language. I doubt any offence would be taken if you had stuck to it, but going bilingual was a nice thought.

Any product or service intended to be sold nationally must be in English and French.

So websites, commercial packaging, the phone tree for national agencies, etc all have French.

Once you get to the prairies and west, random people don't speak French much, and nearly all local stores have signs and menus in English only.

It's a pain 'cause if you're a shame kinkster and you party in more than one province, you need to make sure people write "whore/putain" on you with equally sized letters, they DO check at airports and train stations. /S

We’ve done it. We’ve tried. Most of the south 30% just doesn’t want to hear it, they’re tricked forever. We’re gerrymandered and rigged and cheated and they’re trying to cheat harder. I’d love to hear what I can do besides what I’ve already done - call, write, vote. What else?

Send help

"best country in the world" rhetoric is a paper tiger. Maybe there was a moment, but it's riding on fumes and inertia downhill. Collapse is a lot less sexy than I had hoped.

Not just one American sees this. There's many of us. I fear not a majority in that regard, but many.

and I strongly fear … we won’t be able to.

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure we can't. That's not to say we won't try- we will. But what happens next will largely be due to luck.

Our education system is shit. We are doing a shit job teaching kids critical thinking and analytics skills. We are doing a fucking fantastic job teaching kids that learning and research are boring and tedious activities that should be avoided when possible. Then we bathe them in a diet of short-form videos (which we've exported- sorry :( ) and throw them in a world where it takes two incomes just to keep the lights on. And then we expect them to take time and effort to use critical thinking in elections.
Then we act surprised when this doesn't result in the best leaders.

Fact is for almost all elections now, the majority of people rely entirely on information 'pushed' to them- candidate ads, TV news, etc. Either that or they blindly support one party or another and vote for everyone that party puts forward without consideration for the individual candidate.

The result is a system heavily biased against honest candidates, at least for the Presidency.
Because you start out with the primary elections in your party, which most voters don't participate in. That means to win the primary you have to win over the people who do vote in primaries, which are mostly wingnuts and old people. Then you have to make a mad dash for the center in order to win the general election.

Every now and then a decent human being makes it through and gets elected. But luck plays a big factor in that.

And while the immediate task might be pushing MAGA out to the fringe, really taking back the country and getting good leaders is much, much, much harder.

I think it depends on what happens.

My hope is there's a clean election and enough MAGA types get voted out that Congress can meaningfully oppose the White House.

I am concerned there will not be a clean election. That Trump will find some way to get ICE or National Guard involved in elections, that there will be reports of tampering, and a significant population will feel their votes were not properly handled. THAT is a recipe for unrest, which sadly would give Trump more excuse to use force.

I could see a situation with a dirty election, Democrats demonstrate over their votes not being counted, and either radical subgroups or agents provocateurs will become violent. And then Trump claims force is necessary to stop the 'radical violent leftists'.

That would not be a good day.

Canada should absolutely be worried about the same cult idiocy running rampant. The thing is that a large part of this worry is intentional USA meddling from the current regime and surrounding groups like the heritage foundation and ATLAS network pushing shit like the convoy, maple maga, and Alberta separatism.

The last one is freaky because it's what the USA generally does to a country before trying to claim that the people want the oil to be liberated by the USA. Makes the aggressive threats about the smoke even more appalling.

We can't do as much about our own problems when they are mostly coming from across the border. Hopefully progressives globally can cooperatively figure out how to actively prevent this fascist shit from taking over, or neo-liberal faux progressives from claiming to be the resistance while servings the corruption and oligarchs

To OP personally, you are appreciated and I hope we can all find actions and methods of cooperation that can save us from this spreading cancer.

Same in Australia, our maga adjacent nut job political party is ascendent. ONP

Le Pen in France, AfD has a lesbian swiss living married to a Sri Lankan immigrant heading a party of traditional values who hate LGBTQI and immigrants. Italy led by a Mussolini apologist, literally can't make this shit up. Across the channel, Frarage, a grifter, is married to an immigrant leading a party against immigration, all while denying climate change amongst some of the highest temps on records.

in a world that desperately needs to draw closer. together to solve global problems..., have we always been this fucking stupid and I just never noticed, has climate change affected our pre frontal cortex ?

We may vote for idiots, but we absolutely do not vote into pedophiles, human traffickers, criminals, etc.

Exactly. I don't get the holier than thou attitude from my fellow Canadians here. Do they not realize that we almost had PP as our pm?

No, he should be writing to his congressman, he should be writing letters to the president, the VP, the secretary of whatever.

He should write to the dickhead ambassador

Vote the right way and I'll put the US on my radar again. Until then, there's a restraining order in force.

Exactly. We aren't.

I think folks who comment unhinged (and rude) stuff like this just do so to sound "cool" or whatever.

I really fail to comprehend their end goal when they say shit like this. It just needlessly makes everything toxic and hostile.

Thing is Weimarcrats are actually tolerable when their society doesn't crap up a fascist movement. And it's not whining. It's an attempt to motivate (probably futile tbh) a bunch of sad sacks who don't have enough sense to come in out of rain.

Explain how you’re “fighting”

Do better.

No America is a selfish country who consumes to much and that is almost way American whether right or left leaning. Or is it just a coincidence that the people have more credit card debt and consume more then any other country.

No, you're falling into the "centrist" NYT trap that if we just vote for the right billionaires, they'll take care of us. Actually the same lie maga voters fell for.

Well since trump won the popular vote in 2024, it is fair to say it’s the majority of them.

A whole half are anti-trump? Wow. Fuck off, leave Canada alone you parasites.

We don't trust any of you anymore.

How many didn't vote?

Well idk what state but like 45/50 that's the case even in blue states.

Then what are small business owners?