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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
In an insanely amusingly timely coincidence...this just crossed a different feed of mine
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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
There is an opportunity here for the members of the forum to move the conversation away from vaccines and into the broader subject of 'division of society'. I would agree that is getting worse, and there are quite a few papers and videos on the subject that are worth looking into. The breakdown on most of those are 'follow the money', but there are actually quite a few variables in play that are encouraging the people to take sides on almost every issue, and then never deviate.
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These two things are interesting when put together, I agree with the first post, but the truth is Harry is right, what's happening in the conservative movement is growing that sliver every day, the F-Trudeau T-shrits, the protests at Gondeks house, the border blockades, they terrify the hell out of me. There is a segment of they population that has given up on the institutions of Canadian governance, the accept or reject anything purely based on who says with no concern for facts, they have no thought towards the second order effect of any action they advocate for and are unwilling to do anything that would benefit society unless it can be clearly articulated how their team wins . On top of all of that they have deluded themselves into thinking it is patriotism and they are the only real Canadians, it's a frightening thing to watch, I don't see any path where if doesn't get worse, and I have friends, colleagues, neighbors who are starting to fall on the wrong side of this divide (luckily very few family members, one who I would says is curious about the wrong side but might grasp onto reality because of their marriage). And it might be a lot easier to have conversations that would defuse these things if there wasn't some social liberal waiting in the wings to torpedo every conversation a soon as they feel it drifts offside.