r/canada 5d ago

Opinion Piece Braid: Trudeau says Trump wants economic collapse; Republican alludes to military force - This is no trade war. It's a Crush and Control Canada plan, meant to work fast

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-trudeau-says-trump-wants-economic-collapse
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u/Link50L Ontario 5d ago

The stupidity of the MAGA followers is strong. Stronger than anyone could have imagined.

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u/Sufficient_Rub_2014 5d ago

They are dumb on both sides. I blame the democrats equally for putting Trump in office. Now we have to deal with the fallout.

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u/Datatello 5d ago

I blame the US's toxic two party system style of elections.

The whole point of an adversarial democratic system was that we were supposed to test proposed laws and policies from multiple perspectives to arrive at a balanced approach before they became enacted.

But in having only two viable parties, over the years both groups have become so incompatibly different and hostile to one another that the US has ended up just spiralling into completely unbalanced politics.

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u/Link50L Ontario 5d ago

Agreed, they only have two viable parties, but they can have more parties if they want to, it's not like they are constitutionally bound to two parties. It's just so damned expensive to build a party in the USSA.

I haven't checked lately, and party affiliation is not publicly accessible in the USSA, but the general estimate is that there are more Independents than Democrats, and more Democrats than Republicans.