• I’m not sure we need to waste a lot of time on the lunatics that make up that 10%. You can’t get 90% approval for fresh baked cookies, or friendly golden retriever puppies. While it would be nice for there to simply be no traitors within our borders, it’s not really a realistic goal.

    Instead, let’s celebrate that by and large we’re all on the same page. Elbows up. One way or the other, old age or a bullet, we die Canadians.

  •  Mushroom   ( @Mushroom@lemmy.ca ) 
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    One just needs to look at Germany of the 1930s to under­stand how it happens. It was a time of great disparity between the rich and the poor the latter, who were desperate for leadership, who might relieve them of their very real hunger. And the nazi party delivered on that promise.

    We are in a time of great disparity between the rich and poor. And, for decades, jobs for working folks have been shipped abroad to countries where slave labour is legal. The American dream, or Canadian for that matter, is becoming possible to attain–even for the middle class.

    But America’s poor are in a desperate situation. In that desperation, they chose poorly. Added to that is the fact that they have a very limited and shame-based social safety net. There are fewer chances to earn an honourable wage.

    Add to that, I think a majority of maga faithful are Southern, many of which hang on to a time when enslavement made them rich and proud. They’ve never let that go. The disappearance of a working wage and Democrats clear disdain of them all contributed to what’s happening today.

    We could learn from that and not allow people to become so desperate. I don’t know what to do about the more dangerous racist and lgbtq+ phobia in places like Alberta. I know that not everyone in Alberta is that way. But there is a significantly greater number of adherents there than perhaps other provinces.

    Because of changing technology and this trend for allowing the use of slave-like labour in other countries, we need to look at more socialist policies for our own population. Jean Cretien wanted to introduce a basic universal income, but it wasn’t accepted then. I believe we really need to revisit it now.

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      jobs for working folks have been shipped abroad to countries where slave labour is legal.

      Slave labour is still legal in the US. Their prison population might technically be paid, but the pay is so ridiculously miniscule and (as far as I’m aware) they’re only allowed to spend it within the system. That said, they’re not manufacturing phones or TVs or fly zappers or the millions of other things that are made in countries that are often intentionally kept poor.

      In that desperation, they chose poorly. Added to that is the fact that they have a very limited and shame-based social safety net. There are fewer chances to earn an honourable wage.

      There’s also the decades long effort, of a certain political party, to suppress and distort education. There’s a fair amount of the population essentially programmed to vote against their best interests. And that’s not even accounting for stupidity like the electoral college and rampant gerrymandering…

      We absolutely need to learn from the lessons being shown by the US, I hate to use the slippery slope fallacy, but some slopes really are slippery…

  •  el_muerte   ( @el_muerte@lemm.ee ) 
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    I don’t think it’s a cognitive bias preventing them from accurately assessing risk for a lot of these people. Based on some I’ve interacted with, they don’t care about how much pain they experience as long as the other side feels it worse.

    Others are just pure contrarians who don’t put any thought into it beyond “If the radical leftist blue hairs don’t want it, it’s probably a good thing.”