Didn't know where to post this but man, I so get it.
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the solutions you are suggesting will take 50+ years to develop. and nobody is interested in investing them, democrat or republican. there is no political platform for any of that in the USA.
You basically are suggesting we be entirely different than we are. it's not possible. everyone is going the opposite way. most 'leftists' in american are actively embracing racism just like the far right.
also you canadians have a lot of the same root problems as americans. cost of COL is through the roof, you refuse to reform immigration, and you are increasingly polarized, and deinvesting in helathcare and education. you're just a decade or two behind. I lived in canada for 3 years. It was very much America in the 90s. things are better generally, but nobody is addressing any of the real problems and the citizen themselves don't want to do it because it would be too painful.
I mean lecture every american all you want, it's not going to change the facts on the ground. the notion of some sort of deep common humanism doesn't exist anymore in our politics and it hasn't since the 1960s.
Bullshit. A few years when the commitment is there and collective responsibility is widespread.
a few years nothing will change. the democrats don't do anything, they just kick the can down the road and pretend it's fine. all they are is more polite than the republicans. maybe you don't remember recently history but Biden and Obama admins did nothign to address serious problems. they just threw a couple of bandaids on our bleeding wounds and called it a day.
This pessimism is annoyingly familiar to Canadians, but we usually express it with a hint of irony.
it's not pessimism, it's understanding how people work.
The funny thing about leftist/progressive agenda is... everyone is for it, until it impacts them personally. Everyone wants more housing, more immigration, more education.... until its in their town and their tax bill goes up. Then all the sudden they are VERY opposed to these things.
My own very blue city just had lots of tax rates go up. All the sudden our very popular progressive major is getting a lot less popular... and her progressive plans to expand and fund new things is now being cut back...
weird how that works, right? it's almost as if people don't want the things they say they want...
everyone's idealism disappears when the bills come due and the cold hard facts of finite resources and infinite demand slap them in the face.