We realize that most Americans didn’t vote for Trump (only 49.8%) and that most of those who did probably didn’t understand what tariffs are and how they work and we realize that Trump’s action and our response are going to hurt poor Americans, and poor Americans in red states more than others, but we’re not going to take illegal tariffs sitting down.
Just a reminder who Trump is pissing off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48
https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/lend-hand-do-what-you-can-remembering-generosity-gander
I would add one big caveat to that: voter suppression. Voting day isn’t a holiday, many MANY people have to work, and between Republicans doing all they can to make mail-in ballots inaccessible and closing polling stations to the point where people are standing out in the heat for upwards of 4 hours to get into a place to vote, let alone purging voting rolls so close to the election that there wasn’t enough time for people to register again (and nonsense voter ID requirements), I can’t blame some people for outright not having the ability to vote.
Anybody who had the ability to and chose not to? Yeah, blood is on their hands. The time to push for the changes that everybody wants is not 3 months once every 4 years, but the time leading up to those 3 months.
They also threw out over 2 million mail in ballots this year and black voters were nine times more likely than white voters to have their mail in ballots rejected.
Voting isn’t a holiday in Canada either but we make it work. Vote early, vote by mail. You can use whatever excuse makes you feel better but taking an hour or 2 out of your day once every 4 years is a small price to pay for democracy.
And 100% of Canadians vote, right? And 2 million+ of those mail-in ballots get thrown out, right? And those are only available in certain provinces anyway, right? And people stand in line for 5 hours, right? And there are only 2 polling locations per city, right? And there’s no issues with indigenous people being disenfranchised by the government, right?
It’s almost like Republicans actively make it as difficult as they possibly can for people to vote. And I sure as hell am not going to blame those people who had their ballots thrown out, or stood in line for 5 hours only to get turned away because they closed the polling locations early (illegally, I might add) or didn’t have some esoteric form of ID that they didn’t know they needed because Republicans had quietly passed a Voter ID law in the state without sending out any notification to anybody - and then largely only demanded it from people who “looked too Mexican.”
Again, those who actively chose to stay at home and not vote? Blood is on their hands, fuck 'em. But there’s tons of people who actively voted and had their vote thrown out or were denied the right to vote, and I’m not gonna put them in the same boat. Voter suppression in the US is bad, and it was even worse this past election. To the point where there’s questions about whether or not the election was tampered with. But go ahead and keep blaming the Jews for not voting against Hitler hard enough.
To be fair, you guys have a parliamentary system. It’s a bit different, and you don’t have any one election that’s equal in scale and importance to our Presidential election.
Not making excuses, just saying that it’s not a 1:1 comparison.