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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I don’t know why being critical of Biden is so taboo around here. I was that person too, once, and honestly afterward you just end up feeling like an idiot for defending someone who sucks because they suck less than the other one.
Plus, it’s not like 99% of you can vote in the election. So, who cares? Who is actually at risk of voting for Trump if people are mean to Biden in this thread?
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I care. I'm not interested in Canada becoming Trump-Lite.
There's a famous quote about America by Pierre Elliott Trudeau:
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast… one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
I have never seen more proof of Trudeau's statement than I have since Trump was carried down that escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 like it was some kind of grotesque assembly line for dictators.
A mere eight days after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, a Canadian Trump supporter in Quebec City went into a mosque and murdered six Muslims. Canada has seen a dramatic rise in racial and religious motivated hatred and violence towards Muslims and Asians since Trump was elected.
We saw radicals in that truck convoy in 2022, many of them Trump supporters, take over and occupy Ottawa. Like the resurrectionists of January 6th, 2021 in Washington, these a-holes wanted to overthrow the duly elected Canadian government and install their own. Authoritarianism is on the rise not only in the United States but also in Canada. Those trucker did not believe in democracy. Additionally, many of the truck convoy leaders and lead organizers were white supremacists. Yes, many of the foot soldiers were only ignorant, willing fools, but so were many citizens of historical authoritarian regimes. They were enamoured with the cult of personality, but they were ignorant of the character of the personality they supported.
And yes, Canada had racists and bigots before 2015, but it was not this bad. They were in the closet so to speak. Upon observing what was happening in the U.S., the worst elements of Canada received tacit approval from Trump to step out of the closet and began to see their bigotry as mainstream. Trump not only gave the racists and bigots and haters a popular cause to unite and rally around in America, but he also united them outside of the U.S. Yes, we need to care, because Donald Trump's brand of authoritarianism is a global industry, and it is far more successful than any of his businesses ever were.