Marci Shore (Historian) has left states and is now in Canada to begin teaching in fall. Great read.

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    Shore says she’s devastated that she can no longer rely on her country to defend democracy. As a scholar who has studied the arc of fascism in Eastern Europe, she saw the red flags waving well ahead of many others.

    Doesn’t the US have a pretty well documented record of undermining/destabilizing/overthrowing governments to further its own interests?

    I think it’s fair to say that the current US president no longer regards Canada as an ally, but I’m not sure they could ever be relied on to defend democracy.

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      I mean they’ve been fucking with us for years, it’s just finally being done in an open way that can be understood by enough people to affect change.

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      If this was happening in a country with any natural resource the US wanted, the US would have invaded in the name of saving democracy.

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        I fully expect the US to invade the oil sands Alberta if their independence referendum gets anything close to 50%.

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          Make no mistake, Trunps talk on the “arbitray border” means he has his eye on southern Ontario where all the Canadian car plants & factories are.

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        American’s idea of Democracy is “Its beautiful when I win, Its rigged when the bad guys win”

        and regardless of who wins, the power and money must flow upward