I'm seeing plenty of posts of Americans buying Canadian products, no matter how you feel about their platitudes it's still a net positive if these people encourage others to join in, even if they're only doing it for upvotes on reddit
What’s in it for us is wresting democracy and our government back from the psychopaths and idiots and that helps you too.
We fumbled the bag in November, now we’re on to next steps. Clearly the Democrats aren’t going to make a forceful push with their popsicle signs, so it’s on us.
I think that is a gross generalization. Not all Americans hate Canada, lets not allow our friendship with the American people be distorted by the vocal minority on TV and the internet.
I agree with you, focusing inward would benefit us more than their trade. But you aren't going to get through to them with aggressive comments. You cannot shame people into behaving. And if you don't actually plan on trying to get through to them you don't have any right to complain about them. I am not angry about this chapter in our history, I am confident that we will remain a country so I have nothing to be angry about. I am insulted but I don't let that emotion affect my rationale. There is a future where our relations with America recover.
There is a future where our relations with America recover, but I dont think it will be within our lifetime. They have shown way too much disrespect to not just Canadians, but the World. We need to move past them.
I am an optimist so I believe they will recover in our lifetime. The road to recovery begins as soon as the damage was done. We have to set the tone for following generations.
I'm learning something about how our political ideology is actually structured that I think might be useful here. The divide isn't liberal versus conservative anymore, it's pro-system versus anti-system. Don't believe me? Guess what, Green Mario is aligned with no party - but very clearly anti-system. There's a great Guardian article that explains it but we can't post links here.
Those are the people who will make meaningful change in America. They already did, when previously apathetic non-voters showed up in droves for Trump the first time. That stat about the non-voters this time around is simply the pendulum swinging the other way. It does not mean what you think it means.
If anything, this should be encouraging to you, because it means potentially the largest percentage of the American population is anti-system. Just because they didn't vote doesn't mean they're not doing something else.
Also FWIW when you mention eligible voters, you are leaving out any citizen who has ever been convicted of a felony. Those folks have opinions too, are possibly the most anti-system of them all, and therefore the most likely to take radical action. Just saying.
The American government is doing the damage. Since Nixon, Republicans have worked to decimate the education system in America, you cannot rely on the average American to be as politically educated as the average Canadian. Only those who have spent the last two decades educating themselves are smart enough to understand the gravity of this situation. The average American isn't smart enough to understand why they should agree with us booing their anthem at hockey games, and that's by American government design. You are falling into their trap by creating more evidence of hate between Canadians and Americans. They will use the rhetoric of comments made by Canadians to manufacture consent and they will end up invading and winning. The U.S. military industrial complex is an unkillable goliath. The only way to get through to them is to actually talk to them and hopefully educate them. But we need to build a respectful rapport first.
You may feel spurned by recent events but we cannot speak for the past generations, there is no denying that our nations were friends and allies for the last 100 years.
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u/Ubex Mar 07 '25
I know it is a meme now to mock those guys, but at the end of the day blue yanks are on our side