Why Canadians Are Warning About the Collapse of American Democracy

[marmar]

Why Canadians Are Warning About the Collapse of American Democracy
Bought-off Republican stooges in Congress and state legislatures — along with their allies on the Supreme Court — are openly trying to bring our country down, to destroy a 240-year-old democracy...

Thom Hartmann
31 min ago


Tucker Carlson and Fox “News,” rightwing billionaires, a bought-off Supreme Court, polluting industries, and the politicians they all own have screwed up America so bad that Canada — Canada, for G-d’s sake! — is worrying about us.

Until about eight months ago, Vincent Rigby was the National Security and Intelligence Advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Now, instead of just warning PM Trudeau, he’s joined a top-shelf group of national security experts to warn all of Canada.

He’s warning them about us.

In a new report prepared for both the Canadian public and national security and police officials across the country, Rigby and his colleagues argue that if Donald Trump (or, presumably, somebody similar to him) becomes president of the US in the 2024 election, all bets are off.

As Thomas Juneau, co-director of the task force and associate professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC):

“When we think about threats to Canada, we think about the Soviet military threat, we think about al-Qaeda, we think about the rise of China, we think about the war in Ukraine. All of these are true.

“But so is the rising threat to Canada that the U.S. poses. That's completely new. That calls for a new way of thinking and new way of managing our relationship with the U.S.”

....(snip)....

Tucker Carlson called Justin Trudeau a “Stalinist dictator” and claimed the progressive Prime Minister had “suspended democracy and declared Canada a dictatorship.”

Canadians take that sort of thing seriously: when America’s top cable host tells such vicious lies about their nation and its elected leaders, they worry about what may come next.

Carlson, after all, has promoted the White Replacement Theory that led to the recent murders in Buffalo, New York; how many killings might similar rhetoric spark in Canada if they were directed against residents of that nation? ............(more)

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-canadians-are-warning-about-the?s=r

[kentuck]

1. The failure to control guns on the street...

..would be the ultimate cause of democracy failing.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. +1

I think the gun humpers are worried that the people they’re triggering into mental illness are beating them to the gun. Literally and metaphorically.

[appalachiablue]

3. Thanks much for posting this critical report, TH.

K/R

[Hortensis]

4. Reminds me that Canada just banned Russia's state broadcast network. RT,

or Rossiya Segodnya.

Any pro-Russia Canadians can probably still get RT's propaganda broadcast from the U.S. (those providers that haven't cancelled it) since the vast majority live close to the border. Hartmann's official connection to Russia's state propaganda service reportedly ended in 2017 though, when our government required him and a slew of others whose commentaries provided cover for their product to register as foreign agents.

Go, Canada!

[appalachiablue]

5. The subject of the post is legitimate

concerns about the state of US democracy in relation to its northern neighbor, Canada. The article notes comments by top security officials there, reports by CBC Canadian news and US Sen. Mark Warner remarks along with other material. Using it as an opportunity to rehash the well covered Hartmann, RT position isn't productive or relevant to the grave issue at hand. Maybe post in another area or not.

[kairos12]

6. Bush v. Gore

began the bell tolling for the end of democracy in the U.S.

[Takket]

7. they should be worried

Canada is resource rich and the gop loves to use false patriotism to control the masses (i.e. start a war as a means of quelling domestic dissent). i wouldn't put it past a toppled american democracy to invade Canada.