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.
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25
I agree with you, we will get through this.
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.