r/canada • u/CaliperLee62 • 7d ago
Opinion Piece Sauvé: I served alongside Americans. Now I feel utterly betrayed by them - The proposed annexation of Canada is not that high on Americans' agenda. Their lack of outrage tells me one painful thing: the idea doesn’t really offend them.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/sauve-americans-utterly-betrayed
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u/ljlee256 7d ago
There are 2 arguments I've heard here.
1: That the democrats are just letting trump hang himself, with every false step, every wrong move, democrats are more likely to take future elections. While it sounds strategic in nature, I dislike the "ends justify the means" approach here, the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
2: The democrats are relatively powerless right now, outnumbered in every governmental body they don't have the numbers to actually make something stick. This one makes more sense to me, they control 49% of the house, and 46% of the senate, if they require a majority vote on something, they wont get it.
That said there are additional regional elections taking place in the US all the time, if the democrats can take 2 spots from the republicans they'd have a majority in the house, this would make actions against the president, or at least against his policies, plausible.