Canada has its whole share of issues, but the real problem that I see is you take these strawman routes that the right wing sends your way both personally and seriously.
If you were a right winger, they would be celebrating that you are Canadian, claiming that you are a hope for Canada to someday "get it right" for Canada.
The way the right wingers work, is that they look to your core beliefs first, and if those core beliefs don't match up to their own...then they attack something about you personally that has nothing to do with those beliefs. They simply are incapable of engaging in logical reasonable debate on the issues...because if their only tools are calm rational debate...they are going to lose on the issues. The people of America realized this after 8 years of Bush fear mongering and irrational behaviors. Americans decided they wanted something different, they didn't want to stay the course.
It was so bad, that they voted in a black man with a Muslim name. What are the odds if there was a poll of all Americans on 9/12/2001 that they would vote in a president who was black and had a Muslim name?
But Bush did his level best to serve the republican masters and his true loyal constituency of inner circle republicans and neocons. Bush did not act for the best of the country, all we have to do is a time-line on the Bush regime and see who benefited the most financially, and who benefited the least due to the overall Bush policy implementation.
So Americans wanted change, not John McSame. They took a flyer on an unknown, a black, Muslim named unknown. It is really unbelievable that this took place, and it shows the underlying distrust by the people of the republican party, who preach one thing and do the exact opposite.
In any case, the canard of Canada is not productive from your side or theirs. Americans don't give a shit about Canada or their problems, hell, many Americans don't give a shit about the problems of other Americans (see the wealthy upper class for proof of this).
All of this distraction about Canada takes the attention away from the real issues.
I have mentioned many times before that it is wrong for Americans to be continually judging other countries and their cultures...when their own is so fucked up, and it goes against the Golden Rule.
You see what happens to you as a Canadian when you attack the right wing "American" core values...they attack Canada, simply because you live in Canada.
Sort of like Bush attacked Iraq even though Saddam had no WMD, and no causal link to 9/11. One huge distraction away from the real issues.
It is not rational, but when you get reactive and defensive...they win every time. Don't play their game, stay on point.
Every time you try to defend Canada, you make it look like Canada needs defending...and it doesn't actually.
If you were a right winger, they would be celebrating that you are Canadian, claiming that you are a hope for Canada to someday "get it right" for Canada.
The way the right wingers work, is that they look to your core beliefs first, and if those core beliefs don't match up to their own...then they attack something about you personally that has nothing to do with those beliefs. They simply are incapable of engaging in logical reasonable debate on the issues...because if their only tools are calm rational debate...they are going to lose on the issues. The people of America realized this after 8 years of Bush fear mongering and irrational behaviors. Americans decided they wanted something different, they didn't want to stay the course.
It was so bad, that they voted in a black man with a Muslim name. What are the odds if there was a poll of all Americans on 9/12/2001 that they would vote in a president who was black and had a Muslim name?
But Bush did his level best to serve the republican masters and his true loyal constituency of inner circle republicans and neocons. Bush did not act for the best of the country, all we have to do is a time-line on the Bush regime and see who benefited the most financially, and who benefited the least due to the overall Bush policy implementation.
So Americans wanted change, not John McSame. They took a flyer on an unknown, a black, Muslim named unknown. It is really unbelievable that this took place, and it shows the underlying distrust by the people of the republican party, who preach one thing and do the exact opposite.
In any case, the canard of Canada is not productive from your side or theirs. Americans don't give a shit about Canada or their problems, hell, many Americans don't give a shit about the problems of other Americans (see the wealthy upper class for proof of this).
All of this distraction about Canada takes the attention away from the real issues.
I have mentioned many times before that it is wrong for Americans to be continually judging other countries and their cultures...when their own is so fucked up, and it goes against the Golden Rule.
You see what happens to you as a Canadian when you attack the right wing "American" core values...they attack Canada, simply because you live in Canada.
Sort of like Bush attacked Iraq even though Saddam had no WMD, and no causal link to 9/11. One huge distraction away from the real issues.
It is not rational, but when you get reactive and defensive...they win every time. Don't play their game, stay on point.
Every time you try to defend Canada, you make it look like Canada needs defending...and it doesn't actually.
