themadcodger

No, as an expert on not knowing what the fuck he’s doing, he’s just confirming.

Then how does Australia get a pass?

We learned that last time Trump was president that most of our country has been run on gentlemen’s agreements. It was news to a lot of us as well.

Same. I don’t honestly know how we recover as a country. Trump isn’t the cause, he’s a symptom. A tumour with a much larger cancerous problem underneath. At no point will the sane (and actual majority of us) roll over and become fascists. But at the same time, I don’t see how the third of the country that has gone full fascist suddenly regains their sanity and joins us.

The USSR’s goal was to divide us, and the Cold War never ended, it just went underground. There is a large part of me that is afraid at this point Balkanization is our future. But how we would we even get there without causing death and destruction?

But regardless of sentiments about losing faith in us (and I don’t blame those that feel that way, they are warranted) I do love you all who recognize that not all of us are the insane ones that make it on TV. We do still value our brothers/sisters/enbys to the north and are proud that we have a friendship unparalleled and the world’s longest undefended border. The world is a often a dark and scary place, but it’s friendships like these that make it worthwhile.

I appreciate you internet stranger.

You guys are the best. I’m just south of you in the PNW and want us to always have each other’s backs.

Can some of us, uh, join you though?

Spain did the same thing after Franco died. All the fascists got off because “it’s time to heal and move on” and now they’re all in politics.

Yeah, I honestly don’t know how we come back from this level of radicalization without some form of conflict. If we’re going to Balkanize, hopefully it can be done without bloodshed, but…

Can the PNW join you, and thence the EU? You can give up Alberta if it makes it any easier?