Quote: (03-01-2018 10:05 AM)questor70 Wrote:
Sociologically speaking there is a strong urge to fractionalize in the world due to more and more political polarization.
It's only TPTB that favors more and more globalization.
That's why the EU is breaking up, for instance, and why there's always talk about the US splitting into red and blue states or even more demographic/regional divisions.
Trump-election secession movements:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...con-valley
Obama-election secession movements:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_state..._secession
More discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/c...ed_states/
Expect this trend towards ever more division to continue both here and abroad.
Even in Canada you have the Francophiles vs. the rest.
In US, the secession movements are viewed as a joke honestly. They are weak, and the government monitors them and takes steps to limit their reach. Ever hear a pro-secession perspective on MSM? Nope. Lot of anti-Russia propaganda is saying its the Russians orchestrating the secession movements. The Civil War is the precedent, and secession was suppressed by force. The US government is now to powerful to allow one of these movements to succeed. I imagine if one of these movements started to gain traction, it would be suppressed much like the movement in Catalonia. The globalists are fully opposed to secession, so you see a crazy mental aerobics, whereby the ask for Tibetan secession or Kosovo secession, but reject Catalonia secession, Quebec secession, or Crimean/ Eastern Ukraine annexation.
Red state blue state gap grows larger, but secession movement has only had minuscule support, and most americans worship our federal government and it's huge power. As long as states retain control of social issues, which they are, we'll remain together. As I said earlier I think the difference between Texas and California is bigger than the difference between middle America and middle Canada.
Quote: (03-01-2018 11:53 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:
Canadians view America the same way the Baltic states view Russia: as an aggressor. And to be fair, they have a point. I don't know what the stats are but I'd be willing to bet the majority of Canadians do not want to be involved in US-sponsored wars and would rather do their own thing.
That's interesting. If we're an aggressor why are: they hosting our military bases, in NATO with us, sending combat troups to our wars, signing NAFTA with us, so fawning to us, and so eager to please us with new leadership of Trump. They take our culture as their own, that is for example, why Canadian broadcasting started to get pissed, and put quotas on TV to limit American influence, because the Canadians were sucking up our culture because they preferred it to their own. They have Canadian Football but that's american football with some slightly different rules. They are in the NHL, NBA, MLB, MLS, etc... They speak the same language: that's not the case in the baltics, where they actively discourage Russian and treat ethnic Russians as second class citizens (read up on the subject if you're interested, it is really fascinating stuff).
If Canadians don't want to be involved in US-sponsored wars, then well, why are they? Why do they cooperate with us in the Five Eyes alliance? They have a democracy, yet so much of they do is lockstep with what we do.