Canada mulling ‘game plan’ if U.S. takes far-right, authoritarian shift.

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Canada mulling ‘game plan’ if U.S. takes far-right, authoritarian shift: Mélanie Joly
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I'm genuinely confused as to why, knowing that the Conservative/Republican brand has always been to serve big business, deregulating while also lowering taxes for the wealthy while cutting services to working class families, why people en masse would vote for them.

I get it, 2 sides of the same coin and all that jazz, but one side of the coin is just greedy, while the other side of the coin is greedy and is actively stoking the fires of a civil war.

Because some people bel8ve taking any kind of welfare is as immoral as molesting a child.

Don’t forget the racism so bad they’ll screw themselves as long as it also screws “the wrong people.”

It's not that they believe welfare is immoral. They believe welfare that comes without the Jesus Strings attached (i.e., welfare from the state) undermines their ability to market Jesus by giving fully Jesus-encumbered welfare to the hard up.

Not in my experience. MY family has no problem with family help, or church help just government help.

Most of them don't really believe that. In fact I'm pretty sure most of them don't actually have many beliefs other than "if i just moving goalposts fast enough, I'll never have to form a new opinion on anything."

It doesn't matter who did what so long as their side is right.

Ironically, the other half of their brand is actively screwing with interests of big business. Big businesses also want stability and predictable government fiscal behavior, and republicans are now famous for throwing tantrums and threatening to screw up borrowing and repayment if they don't get their ways on issues that businesses flat out don't care about.

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