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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Okay, but YOU are not voting, unless I somehow missed when you moved to the States, so it doesn't matter at all what YOU are looking for in an American president.
That's the thing about this thread that drives me insane. Canadians are constantly judging American candidates based on Canadian political values. Here's the thing, these guys represent what most Americans want, for better or worse. Whether that's a good thing is fine to debate, but to suggest that Americans aren't getting representatives for what they want is horse####.
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You're completely right about this and something that I have to remind myself about constantly. I'm not an American, I'm Canadian with Canadian values and sensibilities which on the surface align fairly well with most American's but may not when you scratch beneath the surface.
Half of my greater family is American and we get along very well - unless the discussion drifts to the unmentionables - religion, abortion and firearms, then things get a bit dicey. Most of my family loathed the former guy, but that may come from the fact that they're all from Oregon. My experience working with people from Texas was different - much different.
But as a citizen of a western democracy I can do what I can to raise awareness of the ongoing threat to the very existence of the most important democracy of our time.