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I remember coworkers telling me in 2015 that they hoped Trump would win the RNC nomination because he’d be easier to beat

CPC is pretty awful but PPC is much worse. We do not want these people in parliament.

Entirely fitting that for a party based on short-term selfishness and FYIGM, both their supporters and their campaign staff would behave like this.

That’s not fair. I’m sure at least some of the oil industry shareholders are Canadians.

I believe we’re both misunderstanding what the other person is saying because I don’t feel like your reply relates to what I said. Which doesn’t mean it was your error, I’m sure it was at least equally my misinterpretation of your reply.

Either way we are talking past each other, so I’ll wish you well and leave it at that. Cheers

In my area we were instructed to get all signs down before 48 hours. In my area the conservatives and liberals got most signs down by 48 hours, the NDP still had a solid number up after 72 hours.

So I assume it’s as much to do with the specific campaign and not a nationwide issue.

I’m not making any mistake.

Intelligent people can choose to be willfully ignorant, no matter their political affiliation. For example I personally know a person who is extremely brilliant yet parrot Jordan Peterson. This person is amongst the world’s most capable in his highly competitive and lucrative field — so while I find this person’s politics deeply abhorrent I cannot find him stupid.

The problem with over-attributing stupidity to things we simply don’t like is that it masks the other factors which produce the outcomes we as a society are trying to avoid, such as fascism.

I’ll be the Debbie downer and respond to your silly joke with a serious reply.

Quite often political affiliation is related to cultural or geographical factors and not intelligence. I’ve lived in a variety of places both leaning conservative and liberal, including a couple US states. I’ve both met intelligent and idiotic people everywhere I’ve been.

I’ve also seen people be willfully ignorant on both sides of the political spectrum. This isn’t to say “enlightened centrism, all sides equal” because fascism is quite uniquely bad. But the tendencies to get into these bubbles are a human behaviour and not geographic.

Apologies for the pedantic response to what was clearly a harmless joke.

It’s scary that this straightforwardly pathetic behaviour you’ve identified still manages to exert so much control over the CPC.

They should be embarrassed but the fact that they aren’t is so telling to how deep the problem is there.

would you not be happier if you just move there?

It’s not super complicated. These people consume US-based propaganda constantly, but can’t move there because they have no skills nor enough cash to be able to immigrate.

I do wonder if at some point soon the US will grant “refugee” status to white Canadian MAGA to help them flip swing districts there.

with the public personality of year old Melba toast

I disagree with this part

My issue is with the expressed idea of Trump realizing his mistake and rolling back.

It’s not a mistake. And they don’t want to go back. This is intentional and directed behaviour, we think it’s crazy or weird just because it’s so stupid.

I do realize I’m being an annoying pedant about it. But because I feel it’s so important to underscore this as it informs what our response needs to be.

The system of bonds and the USDs unique place in the world economy that you (accurately) described needs to be replaced. We shouldn’t try to save it or implement workarounds except as a temporary measure to disentangle ourselves in an orderly fashion.

It would be extremely foolish to expect that the US will be a reliable partner going forward.

Convincing the US to reverse policies that are harming us makes sense only to give us time to transition our economy to less dependence them. It’s important to underscore this, and not hold out hope that somehow a return to the old ways is possible.